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STOL CH 750 Accelerates Takeoff Speed

The popular Zenair STOL CH 750 Light Sport will once again be offered as a ready-to-fly aircraft, welcome news for aviators without the time or resources to build the aircraft themselves. Canada’s Zenair and Alabama’s M-Squared Aircraft—which will assemble the aircraft—made the announcement here at Sun ’n Fun. The new partners also disclosed how much […]

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Is An Affordable, Unleaded Avgas Future Near?

Could the long quest for an affordable replacement for leaded avgas finally be over? Swift Fuels announced its UL94 unleaded fuel is now available at a growing number of airports around the U.S., and its high-octane UL102 unleaded avgas has been selected for the final phase of a government/industry program to identify and certify an […]

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Daher Introduces TBM 930 Turboprop Single With G3000 Panel

How do you improve upon the fastest, best-selling single-engine pressurized turboprop on the planet? After a top-secret development program, Daher revealed the answer in a ceremony at its Tarbes, France, manufacturing facility. While we haven’t flown the new airplane yet—though we’re already on it!—we can pretty much weigh in on the change right now. Daher […]

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TECNAM Unveils The P2012 Traveller Prototype

From its Experimental Assembly Line in Capua, Italy, TECNAM rolled out its first P2012 Traveller, a joint development project between TECNAM and Cape Air, with international collaboration that includes Lycoming for the aircraft’s engines and Garmin for avionics. An 11-seat piston-engine twin, the P2012 Traveller is designed to comply with FAR Part 23 and EASA […]

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ICON Aircraft To Auction At EAA Gathering Of Eagles

We wrote last week about ICON Aircraft’s plans to be at Sun ’n Fun next week, and this week the company announced big plans for its AirVenture presence. On Thursday, July 28, at the Gathering of Eagles, the EAA’s annual fundraiser for its Young Eagle program, the organization will auction off an ICON A5, provided […]

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The World‘s Biggest Aircraft: And Just How Big Is It?

Look! Up in the sky! It’s a bird!it’s a plane! It’s an airship? Yes, at 302 feet long and cruising at 80 knots, the Airlander 10, created by British design company Hybrid Air Vehicles (HAV), will be the biggest aircraft in the world. Originally designed for the U.S. Army for surveillance purposes, the Airlander was […]

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Women Fly 787 To Saudi Arabia: The Rest Of The Story

You may have heard about this remarkable first: An all-female crew from Brunei, where Islam is the official state religion, recently piloted a Boeing 787 Dreamliner from Brunei to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, landing the cutting-edge airliner in a country with severe restrictions on women’s rights. The story is a great one, but the story behind […]

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