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2006 Aviat Husky A-1B-200 Engine make/model: Lycoming IO-360-A1D6 Horsepower@altitude: 350 (x2) TBO (hrs): 200@SL Propeller type: MTV-15-B/205-58 Airfoil: Modified Clark Y Landing gear type: Fixed tailwheel Gross weight (lbs.): 2000 Max landing weight (lbs.): 2000 Empty weight, std. (lbs.): 1320 Useful load, std. (lbs.): 680 Fuel capacity, std. (gals.): 52 Oil capacity (qts.): 8 Baggage […]

My wife, Randee, and I are finding lots of good reasons to winter in Florida (while our home state of Minnesota gets buried in snow). Here’s three of those good reasons: SeaMax, Mermaid, and Drifter on Lotus floats. Float flying in winter is different…and fun! *** I have now flown the SeaMax three times. Yesterday […]

Cross-country comfort and performance enter the two-seat, flight-training class

Meet Socata’s answer to the very light jet

A 14-year-old boy, trained in Compton, solos both a helicopter and fixed-wing aircraft!

Let’s play the Practical Test Standards Game again

Dennis Newton’s book reviewed

To mark the 75th anniversary of Beechcraft and the 60th anniversary of the Beechcraft Bonanza, Raytheon Aircraft Company is rolling back prices on 2007 Beechcraft Barons and Bonanzas.

Confessions of a type hunter

Flying The Garmin G1000 DVD (Sporty’s, 2006, ID# D554A). Updated to highlight recent enhancements to Garmin’s popular avionics program—such as the optional traffic advisory system—Sporty’s DVD demonstrates the best ways to use the G1000 on the ground and in the air. Join Richard Collins as he instructs you from a G1000-equipped Cessna 182 and a […]