Business & Military

AVweb’s search of aviation news around the world found a first flight for a customer-built Sonex jet, a new home for the Seaplane Pilots Association, upcoming inductees to EAA’s Halls of Fame, and a partnership between two Canadian aviation organizations. Sonex Aircraft extends its congratulations to Redge Greenberg of Durango, Colorado, who made the first […]

Quicksilver Aircraft, which has sold more than 15,000 ultralight aircraft around the world, will close its California factory and is working to reorganize the business, according to a report at ByDanJohnson.com. After a couple of years of increasing sales, the company saw a dip in 2015. “Tremendous efforts were placed in order to reduce costs […]

Ken Hyde, whose painstaking reproductions of early Wright aircraft are known for their historical accuracy and attention to detail, has put seven of his custom-built aircraft on the market, representing a variety of models that originally flew from 1902 to 1911. “I hope to keep them together,” he told AVweb this week, but will sell […]

Every year, the Lightspeed Aviation Foundation chooses five aviation charities to support based on the results of online voting, providing grants of $2,000 to $10,000. This year’s top vote winners were Pilots N Paws, the Ninety-Nines, and Civil Air Patrol. Grants also went to NTM (New Tribes Mission) Aviation, to help them buy a new […]

About six months ago we brought you a long-distance video of a “hoverboard” being flown over a remote Canadian lake and there were plenty of skeptics. Last week, inventor Catalin Alexandru Duru invited Canada’s public broadcaster, the CBC, along for a flight demo that should mute, if not silence, those skeptics. Duru appeared to be […]

The legal profession is keeping an eye on a case in Pennsylvania that might limit litigation in aviation product liability cases. The Third Circuit Court is expected to issue a ruling in the case of Sikkelee v. Precision Airmotive, in which the wife of the pilot who died in a plane crash alleges that fuel […]

The U.S. Department of Transportation will soon require registration of all drones, including hobby models, according to various reports. The ruling is expected to come down Oct. 19 and will cover every type of unmanned aerial system. The DOT issued advance notice to major media outlets by saying it will “make an important safety announcement […]

Tecnam will build three of its models in China for the growing training and travel markets there, the Italian company announced early Saturday. Under an agreement with Liaoning United Aviation, Shenyang Aircraft Co., manufacturing will start with the twin-engine Tecnam P2006T, which has been certified by China’s Civil Aviation Authority. Other models to follow are […]

Richard “Dick” Taylor, known for his decades of work on jet designs, died earlier this month at 93 at his home in Seattle. He was a test pilot and later director of engineering for Boeing, where his portfolio included the B-29 tanker, the B-47, B-52 and later, the 737. The Seattle Times noted that Taylor […]

A nonprofit corporation with a long history of developing new technology (it made the first nuclear rods, invented the foundation technology of the CD) has come up with a way to harmlessly disable drones that are flying where they aren’t supposed to be flying. The Battelle Memorial Institute has come up with a gun-like radio […]