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Triple R Affordable Aircraft, a company dedicated to providing a formal, accountable method of refurbishing aircraft to nearly new condition and marketing them at attractive prices, announced its formation at AirVenture. Triple R’s president isAVweb publisherTom Bliss, but he explained to a press conference at AirVenture this week thatTriple R is not anAVwebcompany, project or […]

Snagged in the FAA certification process for a couple of years, Avidyne announced at AirVenture 2014 in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, that it has won final FAA approval for the IFD540 GPS – a direct slide-in replacement for the Garmin GNS530W. Avidyne’s Tom Harper updates the status in this AVweb Product Minute video. view on YouTube

At AirVenture 2014, Continental Motors introduced its latest diesel powerplant, the CD300. Rhett Ross told AVweb how the company intends to manufacture and market the new engine. view on YouTube

Adept Airmotive says it’s about to embark on a certification plan for its V-6 engine, which it’s showing in the AirVenture Innovation Center at Oshkosh this week. “The certification timeline for us is roughly two years and we hope to have the first certified aircraft out in 2017,” said Adept Airmotive’s Richard Schulz, in this […]

As we careen around AirVenture in our obnoxious green newsteam shirts, were often approached by readers with the question: whats the big thing at the show? My answer is I havent seen any one big thing, although the energy level I mentioned in yesterdays blog is often remarked upon. Things were jumping on Wednesday. Even […]

Augmented-reality glasses are different than virtual-reality glasses and even HUD systems because they overlay a wide variety of flight data on miniature computer screens inside the glasses. This means you can see the data in 3-D and throughout a 360-degree spectrum of movement. Aero Glass – the first company to bring augmented reality to the […]

With the new aircraft market seemingly in semi-permanent stasis, Cessna surprised us at AirVenture with the announcement of a diesel-powered Skyhawk, the Turbo Skyhawk JT-A. The new model presumably complements the 182 JT-A thats been struggling through certification for more than two years. Cessna says the Skylane is close to completing the final hoops, something […]

Safe Flight Instrument Corporation, the creator of the stall warning system, introduces the new SCx low-cost angle-of-attack system at AirVenture 2014. Using a leading-edge wing sensor, the two-piece system is budget-priced and aimed initially at experimental aircraft. In this video, Aviation Consumer’s Larry Anglisano takes a look at the system in flight. view on YouTube

As it promised it would, Continental Motors on Tuesday pulled the wraps off its new 300-hp aerodiesel, giving the company the largest range of Jet-A fueled piston engines in the industry. The company has also rejiggered the branding of the engines, dropping the Centurion nameplate in favor of three model families, the CD 100, 200 […]

Today at AirVenture 2014, Blackhawk Modifications Inc. announced the completion of its 500th new engine upgrade on a customer airplane as well as a new engine upgrade option for the Cessna 208A Caravan and 208B Grand Caravan. A new set of Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-52 engines was installed as part of an overall upgrade […]