All General aviation articles – Page 118
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MAKS: UAC continues to weigh up widebody options
Russia's United Aircraft continues to explore the option of developing a new widebody passenger airliner, for which it may partner with Chinese airframer...
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Four killed in North Sea crash of Super Puma helicopter
Four people were killed in the crash of a Eurocopter AS332L2 Super Puma in the North Sea near Sumburgh on 23 August, Scottish police have confirmed.Eighteen...
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UAC plans specialist training centre at Zhukovsky
Russia's United Aircraft is to set up a new $1 million in-house training facility at Zhukovsky near Moscow. "The plan is to prepare workforces for...
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Some US workplace safety rules to apply to cabin crews
US regulators have taken steps to improve workplace safety for airline cabin crewmembers. In a policy released 21 August, the US Federal Aviation Administration...
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Lion Air opens second campus for flying school
Lion Group's Angkasa Aviation Academy, formerly known as Wings Flying School, has opened a second campus at Tjilik Riwut airport next to the city of Palangkaraya...
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Beechcraft offers G58 for ISR missions
Beechcraft is offering a new intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance variant of the G58 Baron twin-engined piston aircraft ...
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AUVSI: UAV Solutions unveils tethered Allerion 25
UAV Solutions (booth 1813) has unveiled a tethered version of the Allerion 25, greatly extending its potential flying time. The new model, dubbed Allerion...
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Rockwell to buy Arinc for nearly $1.4b
Avionics specialist Rockwell Collins is to buy aeronautical communications company Arinc for $1.39 billion from investor The Carlyle Group.
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Turbo Commander crashes on approach to Connecticut airport
A seven-seat Rockwell Turbo Commander 690B crashed in New Haven, Connecticut on the morning of 9 August, killing at least two people.
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Fire destroys Ukrainian An-12 at Leipzig
German investigators have opened an inquiry after a fire destroyed an Antonov An-12 freighter at Leipzig-Halle airport. Images show that the four-engined...
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ATSB looks into Qantas 737 flight deviation incident
The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) is investigating an incident on board a Qantas Airways 737-800 where an inadvertently activated system caused...
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SMA unveils six-cylinder turbocharged piston engine
French engine manufacturer SMA has launched a new jet-A fuel-powered piston engine aimed at high-end piston singles and twins such as the Cirrus SR22 and Beechcraft Baron.
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Kestrel selects Garmin G3000 for single-engined turboprop
Kestrel Aircraft has selected the Garmin G3000 touchscreen glass cockpit for its in-development Kestrel single-engined turboprop, but the US start-up is still seeking around $125 million in financing to bring the all composite, six-seat aircraft to market in 2017.
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Antonov flies turboprop-powered An-2-100
Ukraine's Antonov has flown a turboprop-powered modification of the vintage An-2 utility biplane, designated An-2-100, in a bid to rejuvenate the ageing...
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Beechcraft makes history with $1.4bn King Air 350i order from Wheels Up
Less than six months after emerging from bankruptcy, Beechcraft has made history by securing the largest general aviation propeller aircraft order, for up...
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OSHKOSH: Epic introduces new certificated E1000
Epic Aircraft has unveiled plans to offer a fully certificated variant of its Epic LT kit-built single-engined turboprop, called the E1000.
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OSHKOSH: Hutterer Engineering pitches new hybrid concept
Among the smaller companies at AirVenture was Hutterer Engineering, which is promoting a new unique hybrid aircraft.
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OSHKOSH: SkyCraft starts production of SD-1 Minisport
SkyCraft Airplanes has started production of its new SD-1 single-seat Minisport and expects to receive American Society for Testing and Materials approval for the special light sport arcraft (S-LSA) in September.
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OSHKOSH: Flight Design to assemble C4 in USA and Taiwan
German manufacturer Flight Design plans to assemble its new C4 piston single in Germany, the USA and Taiwan.
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OSHKOSH: Sam Aircraft starts production
Canadian kit airframer SAM Aircraft has started delivering its first SAM LS kits to customers and is now hoping to broaden its customer base by offering the two-seat model in the US under the amateur-built and special light sport aircraft (S-LSA) categories.