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Global Avionics Round-Up from Aircraft Value News (AVN) Avionics used to be the realm of reliable but incremental upgrades — new radar here, a better flight management system there. Today, […] The post Faster Brains in the Cockpit: How Ever Sharper Chips Are Turning Avionics Into Asset Enhancers appeared first on Avionics International.
By Charles Albritton, EAA 545463 This piece originally ran in the October 2025 issue of EAA Sport Aviation magazine. I never had assembling a Bearhawk Five in 12 days on my bucket list. I especially didn’t imagine doing it in the Amazon jungle at the age of 74, but there I was. The adventure began […] The post What Our Members Are Building/Restoring — Brazil Bearhawk Five first appeared on Hangar Flying.
By Scott Christiansen, EAA Lifetime 43627 After learning to fly in an Alon Ercoupe, my first tail dragger checkout was in a Piper Super Cub. My flying career started after graduating from the aeronautical curriculum at Metropolitan State College in Denver, Colorado. I was soon flying a 180-hp Super Cub six hours a day, six […] The post An Oshkosh Regular first appeared on Hangar Flying.
By Jeff Hess, EAA 1505814, EAA Chapter 586 Congratulations to TJ Hess, EAA 1366493, for his first private pilot solo on November 11! It was a great day for him to undertake this amazing milestone in his aviation career. The weather was perfect… no wind, cool temperatures, and not a cloud in sight. The morning […] The post Solo Milestone: Ray Aviation Scholar TJ Hess first appeared on Hangar Flying.
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The Skift Travel Health Index records and benchmarks travel performance year-on-year, providing valuable data-driven insights. OAG helps enable Skift's Travel Health Index by providing flight data (powered by OAG Metis).
Colleagues from both CGI and NATS rolled up their sleeves to support FoodCycle, a national charity tackling food waste, food poverty, and loneliness. Together, they delivered two evenings of community engagement that went far beyond simply cooking. The post Guest blog: Serving the community through partner volunteering appeared first on NATS Blog.
By Mike Davenport, Langley, British Columbia The Skybolt, designed by Lamar Steen in the 1970s in order to meet the needs of larger pilots than was the case with Pitts of the day, is not only roomier but larger overall. The airplane could even be called an early “composite” as the construction included a welded […] The post Steen Skybolt C-GDJM first appeared on Hangar Flying.
IATA released data for October 2025 global air cargo markets marking the eight consecutive month of overall growth and setting a new monthly record for volumes.
By Mark Solper with Lee Fischer This piece originally ran in the October 2025 issue of EAA Sport Aviation magazine. Paul Poberezny once said, “Airplanes bring us together, but friendships keep us together.” Little did I know that a short call to EAA and a subsequent visit with Timm Bogenhagen, EAA’s ultralight and lightplane community […] The post Aviation Dreams Reborn first appeared on Hangar Flying.
By Aidan Lara and Ray Ballantyne, EAA 808555, EAA Chapter 430 President “By 2100z on Sunday, Oct. 26th, the TAFs were looking good for the flyout to Roche Harbor for Monday, Oct. 27th, so I sent out the ‘flyout is on’ announcement. By this time, I had 16 confirmed to attend,” reported Aidan Lara, EAA […] The post EAA and WPA Flyout to Roche Harbor, San Juan Island first appeared on Hangar Flying.
There are some places on my bucket list to visit before I die, and then there are other places which I have absolutely no desire to visit at all. The Redneck Riviera falls into the latter category despite being hugely popular as a regional destination. And now, it’s become popular enough that it has expanded...
IATA released the Value of Air Transport Study for Uzbekistan, highlighting that the country’s continued focus on aviation has resulted in growing benefits in terms of jobs and economic activity.
A couple of little snippets about Merlin Labs... On the 6th of November 2025 Taupo Tandem Skydiving's Cessna 208 Grand Caravan ZK-JMP did a Kerikeri local flight as MERLIN 1. It then positioned to Paraparaumu on the 7th of November. On the 10th of November, it flew to Kaikoura and operated two crayfish flights from Kaikoura to Wellington as MERLIN 1 as part of the Air Kaikoura
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Catching up on Barrier Air news and in particular the winter lease of two of their Cessna 208 Grand Caravans...Barrier Air's Cessna 208B Grand Caravan ZK-SDG had flown to Wanaka and Queenstown on the 23rd of June for use by Milford Sound Flights. It did its final flights for the southern company on the 16th of October 2025 with two return flights from Queenstown to Milford Sound before
On the 6th November 2025, the residents of a small Indigenous community in Guyana’s South Rupununi looked up from their errands to see a Cessna Grand Caravan landing on the road bside their brand-new secondary school. The Caravan, registered in Guyana as 8R-THR and operated by Air Services Limited, had departed normally from Eugene F.…
By Brian Garrett, EAA Lifetime 871500 This piece originally ran in the October 2025 issue of EAA Sport Aviation magazine. In the depths of the COVID-19 pandemic, building an airplane just seemed like the right thing to do. I’d been flying old certified airplanes for a while and was getting tired of the baggage that […] The post What Our Members Are Building/Restoring — Colorado Sling TSi first appeared on Hangar Flying.
IATA dismissed the Premium Flyers Solidarity Coalition Declaration, emphasizing that the proposed tax on air travelers lacks any credible analysis of the negative effects it may have on the countries it aims to support.
IATA, together with the governments of Japan, Malaysia and leading industry stakeholders, have issued a joint statement at COP30, urging governments and the international community to reaffirm ICAO's leadership.
Jumpstart Your Build My friends are selling their partially completed Vans RV-7A kit. Located near Seattle, WA is a complete Vans RV-7A slider kit with no laser cut parts, numerous upgrades, and more than 1000 hours of labor put into the construction. It’s at a point where you could finish the cabin, mate the canopy, stand it up on gear, and then move on to avionics or your engine. It comes with the following:All plans: (e.g. instructions and engineering drawings) Empennage kit: build