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Put new life in your legacy turboprop or bring a high-performance piston into the jet age! Aftermarket specialists can upgrade your engines, retrofit your interior, install a glass panel and more.

This thank-you was a long time coming

Even after tragedy and Global Econ 101, fun flying wins out

Wing heaviness may be a minor annoyance or a genuine threat to safety

Part I: The West Coast’s only strike-fighter wing, Naval Air Station Lemoore, trains F/A-18 pilots for the runway at sea

Updates 10/4/11 and 10/5/11 — Congratulations to Pipistrel for their unprecedented third win at a NASA Challenge. Picking up a cool $1.35 million, the company won with their unorthodox dual Taurus G2 fuselages joined by a larger, centrally-mounted electric engine. The custom-configured, four-seat aircraft achieved an amazing 403 passenger miles per gallon of fuel (or […]

At AOPA summit I spent time in the Lockwood Aviation booth giving me a chance to speak with a few RV-12 builders. *** Van’s has reportedly sold approximately 600 RV-12 Light-Sport Aircraft, of which 150 may be flying, making RV-12 by far the most successful Experimental LSA. RV-12 would among rank high among all Light-Sport […]

Just in time for this year’s AOPA Summit, welcome to a pair of Special Light-Sport Aircraft, numbers 121 and 122: the first, the formerly named NG 5 LSA, rebadged as the Bristell Fastback by importer Liberty Sport Aviation of Pennsylvania; and the second being the fourth approval for Pipistrel, specifically for their Sinus motorglider (previous […]

How to make a great LSA even better? Fine-tune that cockpit!

Remos GXNXT Price as flown: $164,648 Engine make/model: 100 hp Rotax 912 ULS Cabin width (in.): 46.8 Max takeoff weight (lbs.): 1320 Empty weight (lbs.): 718 Useful load, full fuel (lbs.): 602 Wing tank capacity (gals.): 22 Wingspan: 30 ft. 6 in. PERFORMANCE Max cruise speed (kts.): 105 Vs (kts.): 43 Vso (kts.): 38 Best […]