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What can you do to bring the venerable C-172 to an even wider audience at a more affordable price? If you’re Redbird (the simulator folks), you consider putting a new Continental turbodiesel into it and completely retrofit the panel to create a Redhawk — which may be coming soon to a flight school near you. […]

With the ink barely dry on Continentals agreement to buy Thielert Aircraft Engines, the company already has one customer commitment from an unlikely quarter: Redbird Simulations. On Sunday at AirVenture, Redbird announced a new initiative to convert Cessna Skyhawks to diesel power using Continentals 135-hp Centurion 2.0. The project is called Redhawk and will be […]

Levil Technology is well known for its line of portable ADS-B products. At AirVenture 2013, they introduced a new model called the iLevil AW, and in this AVweb Product Minute, Ananda Leon describes the details and demonstrates some cool new apps. view on YouTube

Garmin brought their new GTR200 communications radio to AirVenture 2013. In this AVweb Product Minute video, Garmin’s Jim Alpiser gives a tour of the product that’s designed for LSA and experimental aircraft. view on YouTube

At AirVenture 2013, AVweb sponsor Sagetech was showing off some improvements to its Clarity ADS-B product. view on YouTube

Continentals purchase this week of the assets of Thielert Aircraft Engine GmbH didnt exactly come out of left field. Continental already declared its interest in diesel in 2010, when it announced the TD300 diesel. And that was before China-based AVIC International came into the picture with a necessarily global view, but not one that Continental […]

If Continental Motors ever had any doubts about the aerodiesel market, it erased them in the stroke of a pen with the companys acquisition of the bankrupt assets of Thielert aircraft Engines GmbH. Despite a rocky ending for Thielert culminating in the jailing of its founder, Thielert (and Diamond) put aircraft diesels on the map […]

Continental Motors announced today that it has bought the bankrupt assets of Thielert Aircraft Engines for an undisclosed sum. The deal has been in the works for several months and overnight makes Continental the volume leader in aircraft diesel manufacture. Continental and its parent, the China-based AVIC International, said that the management of Thielert would […]

Levil Technology is out with a new portable ADS-B unit that included air data input, making it the industry’s first portable ADAHRS unit. It sell for $1,395. AVweb’s Paul Bertorelli recently flew it in his Cub. view on YouTube

The Zlin Cub-S will be on display at Oshkosh AirVenture later this month offering its “best in category power-to-weight ratio” and entering the U.S. LSA market with first deliveries scheduled for November. The Cub-S is powered by a 180-hp Titan Stroker IO-340 engine that delivers a power-to-weight ratio of 7.33 lbs/hp at maximum takeoff weight. […]