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The training center, set for a November 1 grand opening, will be located at Scottsdale Airport.

Fun facts about seaplanes

I’ll admit up front. The word “special” is overused. Is every Super Bowl special? What about every Jason Bourne movie, every opening at the Met or every Indy 500? Even hardcore enthusiasts of those events would admit that some are way more special than others, and that sometimes there’s a real stinker, one that’s downright […]

Since 1928, Spartan College of Aeronautics and Technology has trained over 130,000 pilots and technicians between our Tulsa, Oklahoma and Los Angeles, California based campuses from all fifty states and over sixty-two foreign countries.

Getting a crew plane for the crash pad

The coming NBAA convention is shaping up to be the 500-knot canary in the coal mine, and why it’s likely to give us a good idea of where the industry is headed.

Financing Aviation Stuff is Hard: Here’s What One Company Did About it

You’d never see it from the ground. A small stream runs through an ignorable culvert under a county road. In a car, it’s just a bump, if even that. Perhaps a flash, a glimpse of sunlight reflecting off water. You’d never think it was important. You’d never think you’d just crossed history. This morning, however, […]

The future is not only coming, it might be here already

The Textron Aviation Cessna TTx we flew for this report was a loaded late 2016 model with the standard Garmin G2000 touch-controlled avionics suite, with the GFC700 digital autopilot, SiriusXM aviation weather and entertainment, envelope protection, terrain and traffic awareness utilities, flight into known icing TKS anti-ice system, and more. Price As Flown:$810,785 Base Price: […]