Ownership

Flying clubs purchasing aircraft can now obtain special financing from AOPA, the association announced Wednesday. AOPA Aviation Finance Co. offers four options for start-up clubs and existing clubs shopping for additional aircraft. “Flying clubs offer pilots of all skill levels the benefit of shared aircraft ownership and a ready-made community of like-minded aviators,” said Adam […]

During its 85 years of building aircraft engines, Lycoming has seen vast changes in the market. Today, it has to survive building a fraction of the engines it once produced. In this video, AVweb’s Paul Bertorelli gives a detailed video tour of the plant and explains how the company has reinvented itself with modernization. view […]

Nextant Aerospace has completed the first test flight of its remanufactured G90XT design, the company recently announced. The project, which launched about a year ago, matches a refurbished King Air C90A with the new H75 engine by GE. The airplane also features a Garmin G1000 cockpit, electronic engine controls, new dual-zone air conditioning and many […]

At Sebring’s Sport Aviation Expo, Elaine Kauh prepared this video report on AOPA’s Cessna 152 Reimagined project. She spoke with the association’s Jamie Beckett. view on YouTube

Van’s Aircraft comes to the 2015 Sport Aviation Expo with the RV-12 S-LSA equipped with Garmin’s G3X Touch avionics and integrated action camera. In this video, AVweb’s Larry Anglisano, along with Chris Thelan from Van’s Aircraft, took the system flying for a closer look. view on YouTube

Unless you operate your aircraft in a warm climate, we think fixed engine heaters are essential accessories. Even if you store the aircraft in a heated hangar, there could be times when you’re faced with an engine-stressing cold start. Not all systems are alike and the one you choose might depend on climate. We took […]

One of the new features at the Sport Aviation Expo is the used aircraft sales lot, run by Aviators Hotline. Logan Feaster shows us how it works. view on YouTube

Airbus has introduced a long-range (4,000-nm) version of its A321neo single-aisle airliner as it squares off against Boeing in the lucrative low end of the airliner market. The neo is Airbus’s next-generation version of the A320 series, which goes head to head with Boeing’s 737 MAX, which currently has a projected range of up to […]

Not surprisingly, as the rate of price increases for new airplanes left the rate of inflation in the dust, the business of giving new life to aging airplanes became a growth industry. The last 20 years has shown that there is a demand for general aviation airplanes, however, that demand has also been shown to […]

One of my secret ambitions has been to own an airplane company and I think I’m about to realize it. Not to reveal too much about my personal finances, but I’m about to come into a lot of money. I mean a really, huge, stupid amount of money. I’ve been getting a lot of e-mails […]