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Cessna will donate five new, custom-branded Skyhawk 172 airplanes to college programs early next year, the company announced on Monday. The five airplanes will go to Eastern Kentucky University, Ohio State University, Auburn University (in Alabama), Southern Illinois University in Carbondale and Louisiana Tech University. “These universities are renowned for their innovative aviation programs and […]

It would appear presidential TFRs over New York City and Palm Beach, Florida, will be a common feature over the next four years as President-elect Donald Trump and his family settle into their domestic routine. News reports over the weekend suggest that future First Lady Melania Trump will continue to live in the Trump Tower […]

Lockheed Martin has developed an unmanned aerial firefighting system that it expects to have ready for service in about five years. Full-sized unmanned Kaman K-MAX and Sikorsky helicopters (both can also be flown by pilots) were used in a demonstration that showed the system not only picking up water from a pond and dousing a […]

Would a $5000 sales promotion make you think twice about exchanging your engine for a premium rebuilt RAM IO-550? If you are nearing TBO and a few weeks of airplane downtime will work out, it just might.For GA manufacturers and service providers of all kinds, sales promotions are the “call to action” that some companies […]

Lieutenant General Jimmy Doolittle described Robert A. “Bob” Hoover as “the greatest stick and rudder man who ever lived.” He was also among the most loved, as evidenced by the memorial celebration held in Hoover’s honor. More than 1,500 people gathered at Van Nuys Airport on a perfect CAVU day to remember the legendary aviator, […]

House Republicans have approved a bill that would cancel proposed deals for Boeing and Airbus to sell up to 200 aircraft to Iran. Doubts have been raised about whether Iran Air could actually afford the $40 billion in orders but the House vote is a clear challenge to the Obama administration’s nuclear deal with Iran. […]

AVweb‘ssearch of aviation news around the world found announcements from Airbus Helicopters, Med-Trans Corp., Canada’s Aviation Hall of Fame and EDM. The light-twin Airbus helicopter H135 received the type certificate by the European Aviation Safety Agency for its new Helionix cockpit. The avionics system designed by Airbus Helicopters offers operators increased mission flexibility and safety. […]

Developers of the Sun Flyer electric airplane have begun power-on testing with a series of ground, taxi and preflight tests. Aero Electric Aircraft Corp. said this week the FAA also recently granted the prototype its temporary registration, another step in the process toward an airworthiness certificate. “We have been preparing for the power-on tests for […]

So now we have a Republican congress and a soon-to-take-office Republican president. What does this mean for general aviation’s interests? For the airlines? For aerospace in general? Probably about what it means for every other segment of the economy; no one seems to know enough to hazard a guess. Yet. In theory, the sacred project […]

Discarded wood products that otherwise would have been disposed of as waste now can be processed into a biofuel that can power jet airplanes, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said this week. On Monday, an Alaska Airlines jet flew the first commercial flight powered in part by the new commercial fuel. “In 2011, USDA awarded […]