Pilot Reports

Zenith Aircraft of Mexico, Mo., builds durable, all-metal, light-sport aircraft with an emphasis on fun

2008 Cessna Skyhawk 172R New price: $219,500 Engine make/model: Lycoming IO-360-L2A Horsepower@altitude: 160@SL TBO hrs.: 2000 Fuel type: 100/100LL Propeller type: 75-inch, 2-blade FP Landing gear type: Tri./Fixed Max ramp weight (lbs.): 2457 Gross weight (lbs.): 2450 Landing weight (lbs.): 2450 Empty weight, std. (lbs.): 1699 Useful load, std. (lbs.): 751 Payload, full std. fuel […]

When does it make sense to train in a $220,000, four-seater when you could use a $140,000, two-place model instead?

Fast-forward in the Piaggio P.180 Avanti II

The 1000 is the apex of the ultraluxurious Twin Commander line of corporate turboprops

Cessna’s postwar, art-deco Businessliner neither outsold nor outran the model 35 Bonanza, but it outclassed practically every other lightplane in the sky

When most twins disappeared in the ’€˜80s, the Piper Seneca soldiered on. Twenty years later, it’s one of only five multis still in production.

Who in the Light-Sport Aircraft business wouldn’t like to log a sale to the President and CEO of Boeing Commercial Airplanes? CubCrafters made such a delivery yesterday when they presented a special Sport Cub S2 to Scott Carson. The 34-year Boeing veteran makes the big planes by day and can now fly his Light-Sport Aircraft […]

SEBRING 2008 UPDATE — Through the first three years of LSA sales StingSport from TL Ultralights has earned the #7 rank equaling an estimated 5% of the U.S. market. The new Sting S3 should push the popularity of this 98% carbon fiber low wing. S3 has a new fully-tapered wing and redesigned elevator trim. According […]