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Santa Monica Airport will close in 2028 and the runway will almost certainly be shortened to 3,500 feet. The FAA announced Saturday that it had reached an agreement to end decades of legal wrangling over the airport, which is surrounded by urban development and has been targeted for closure by local politicians since the 1980s, […]

Swift Fuels says it’s pushing hard to market its 94UL unleaded aviation fuel to more airports and that the infrastructure is in place to refine and distribute it virtually anywhere in the U.S. At this week’s Sport Aviation Expo in Sebring, Swift’s Chris D’Acosta told AVweb that UL94 can be burned by about 65 percent […]

Swift Fuels says it’s pushing hard to market its 94UL unleaded aviation fuel to more airports and that the infrastructure is in place to refine and distribute it virtually anywhere in the U.S. At this week’s Sport Aviation Expo in Sebring, Swift’s Chris D’Acosta told AVweb that UL94 can be burned by about 65 percent […]

What a difference a year makes. At last year’s Sport Aviation Expo in Sebring, the drone display was imprisoned in a large hangar and the demos were contained inside a netted area. This year in Sebring, for the first time, the show, in conjunction with a drone racing league, is conducting open air racing of […]

At the 2017 Sport Aviation Expo in Sebring, open air–as in not netted or caged in drone racing–debuted. AVweb’s Paul Bertorelli covered some of the races and filed this video report. view on YouTube

British European Space Agency astronaut Tim Peake has officially opened the Airbus Foundation Discovery Space STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) center in Stevenage next to the Mars Yard test area. Backed and funded by Airbus, the Airbus Foundation and the Hertfordshire Local Enterprise Partnership, the STEM Center will be run in partnership with North […]

With the market choked with certified ADS-B to meet the 2020 mandate, another company is about to enter the fray with a low-cost option. At the 2017 Sport Aviation Expo in Sebring opening this week, 2020 Avionics was showing a new portable ADS-B In product with a companion GPS selling at the show for under […]

The National Aviation Hall of Fame in Dayton appears to be in financial trouble and a local congressman said this week he’s investigating complaints of mismanagement. U.S. Rep. Mike Turner, R-Dayton, released his Wednesday letter to NAHF board chairman William R. Harris Jr. stating his office has “received complaints of financial mismanagement and misappropriation of […]

The contenders in the international Lunar XPrize have been narrowed down to five finalist teams who will attempt to be the first to launch and land a robot on the moon by the end of the year. XPrize.org, which is offering a grand prize of $20 million sponsored by Google, announced this week that each […]

A sluggish end to 2016 will result in production cutbacks for Cessna business jets this year, Textron Aviation said Wednesday. The company delivered 58 Citation jets in the fourth quarter of 2016, down from 60 in the same period for 2015. Meanwhile, deliveries of new Beechcraft King Air turboprops fell from 33 in the fourth […]