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FAA proposal aims to save time and money for high-flying aircraft

Icon Aircraft CEO Kirk Hawkins shared a computer depiction of events leading to the crash of an A5 flown by factory chief pilot, Jon Karkow. From A5’s onboard black box Icon engineers assembled a second-by-second path for the ill-fated Light-Sport Aircraft. The data showed speed, power settings, flap position, and more. According to the Napa […]

The probable cause was no surprise but was nevertheless hugely troubling

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The Cub is such an icon of light aviation that it’s easy to forget some important things about the actual airplane

If you know the Part 103 category of the FAA regulations, you know these are the lightest aircraft in aviation (that is, man-carrying aircraft; drones excepted).* After years of disappearing, Part 103 entries have come back more recently and at AirVenture Oshkosh 2017, we saw another. This is the Just Aircraft Superlite, except that name […]

As with many large airworthiness directives, there’s some controversy over how it should be addressed and who will pay.