Liberty Aerospace Inc. announced the launch of the advanced XL2 Vanguard Edition at the annual Sun 'n Fun airshow in Lakeland, Florida.
The latest model of the highly acclaimed FADEC equipped two seat touring and training aircraft offers a Gross Weight increase to 1,750 pounds, and Toe-Brakes, WAAS enabled GARMIN GPS avionics, Jeppesen Terrain Database, and entry steps, all as standard equip Read More

Hewlett Packard (NYSE:HPQ) and Control Vision, Inc. have teamed up to provide Anywhere Map’s industry-leading capabilities in a truly new stand-alone integrated portable GPS device that’s equally useful in the air or on the ground.

“It’s the best screen in the business, and we’ve made it capable and simple, right out of the box,” said Control Vision President and CEO Jay Humbard. Th Read More

Zaon XRX Portable Collision Avoidance System (PCAS) now integrates with leading flight planning and navigation system PocketFMS (http://www.PocketFMS.com).

PCAS is a compact, portable, proven and effective technology from Zaon for reducing the risk of mid-air collision in light aircraft.

PocketFMS is a highly advanced, yet affordable FMS which will run on PocketPC-based P Read More

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Contributed by our Print Partners, Organizations, Marque Clubs and by the authors themselves, "Features" bring a topic of inte Read More

Lancair International, Inc. is pleased to announce the latest addition to its line of high performance aircraft kits the Evolution, has achieved first flight.
The Evolution aircraft kit is the result of 3.5 years of engineering, research and development at Lancair to produce a more spacious aircraft that will meet all flight handling characteristics required by FAA Part 23, including a 61 k Read More

Comp Air Aviation and its major suppliers have reached general agreements on components for flight test and initial production of the Comp Air 12, single engine turboprop aircraft.

Please join Ron Lueck, President and CEO of Comp Air Aviation at a scheduled press conference on Wednesday, April 9th, 2008, at 10:00 am in the press room, at the Sun 'n Fun show, www.sun-n-fun.org Lakelan Read More

This week, the factory-authorized Rotax Owners Assistance Network (ROAN) released its first in a series of online e-learning video modules. This first four-chapter release covers the correct procedures for carburetor tuning and synchronization for the popular Rotax 912 & 914 series Aircraft Engines. Identifying that the correct tuning and synchronization of the Bing dual CV carburetors has been... Read More

Blue Mountain Avionics is excited to announce that the entire blue mountain EFIS lineup is now traffic ready!

Zaon Flight Systems PCAS (Portable Collision Avoidance System) XRX is aimed at making an extremely affordable, yet highly accurate traffic system available for all GA, experimental and LSA aircraft. And now traffic from the Zaon PCAS XRX can be displayed directly on your Blue  Read More

Today www.Rotax-Owner.com the official Factory Authorized Information-Education-Support web site for ROTAX Aircraft Engines announced the introduction of new global Rotax training and independent ROTAX Maintenance Technician Programs (iRMT). These new factory programs are designed to establish a global standard for Rotax Aircraft Engine training resulting in a new class of independent ROTAX Ma... Read More

Liberty Aerospace Inc. and Anyang Angel Aero Science and Technology Development Co., Ltd. (3A) announced the launch of a 600-aircraft manufacturing agreement, and that 3A has initiated the construction of a new factory at the Anyang Airport in Henan designed for the manufacturing of the Liberty XL-2. The new plant is part of a definitive contract to purchase and build 600 Liberty XL-2 aircraft... Read More