FreeFlight’s certified ADS-B RANGR systems are now fully compatible with the ForeFlight Mobile app version 7.1 that was released last week. With the software update, pilots can now view ADS-B In weather and traffic data from FreeFlight Systems’ RANGR series of ADS-B receivers via the ForeFlight Mobile app. Compatible solutions include the RANGR Blue Box Receiver […]
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Carpenter Avionics acquires Smyrna Air Center’s avionics business
SMYRNA, Tennessee – Carpenter Avionics has acquired the avionics business unit of Smyrna Air Center, an FAA approved maintenance and repair organization and one of two FBOs located at the same airport where Carpenter is based. The companies will partner as Carpenter Avionics becomes the avionics service provider for Smyrna Air Center. Carpenter acquired all […]
Aircraft Spruce Canada slates customer appreciation day
Aircraft Spruce will host its annual Customer Appreciation Day on Saturday, June 27, at its Canadian location at the Brantford Municipal Airport (CYFD). Representatives from a number of aviation companies, including Champion Aerospace, Concorde, Dynon Avionics, Full Lotus Floats, Gill, ICOM, LightSpeed, Navstrobe Lighting and Zenair, will be on hand to demonstrate their products during the event, which […]
Legend Cub gets carbon fiber amphib floats
SULPHUR SPRINGS, Texas — Now available are carbon fiber amphibious floats for the Legend Cub and Super Legend. Designed and manufactured by American Legend Aircraft Co., the LF1500A floats allow for takeoffs and landings on both water and terra firma, according to company officials. The LF1500A floats are purposely built for the Legend Cub and Super Legend. The floats […]
Avidyne updates iPad demo app
Avidyne has released a new version of its free IFD-Series FMS/GPS/NAV/COM iPad application. The updated app provides interactive, free-play demonstration capability for the new IFD440, as well as adding new IFD540 functionality that is representative of Avidyne’s soon-to-be-certified Release 10.1 software.Release 10.1 is Avidyne’s latest software upgrade for IFD540-Series FMS/GPS/NAV/COMs. R10.1 is also the baseline software […]
West Star Aviation opens satellite facility at KPWK
West Star Aviation has opened a satellite facility at Chicago Executive Airport (KPWK). A Class 4 Repair Station, West Star provides maintenance and avionics troubleshooting and repairs, minor inspections, customer assistance, as well as support for the AOG and mobile repair activity in the area. West Star will hold an open house at the new location on Wednesday, […]
Jerry Trimble Helicopters offers prize money at contest
The fifth Annual Touchdown Autorotation competition will be held June 28 at Jerry Trimble Helicopters (JTH) at the McMinnville Airport in Oregon. The contest begins at 10 a.m., and an all-you-can eat pancake breakfast is offered from 7 a.m.-12 p.m. The cost to enter is $75, and includes a Robinson R22 helicopter to use in the contest. […]
Video: Saving ‘That’s All Brother’
Last year an iconic piece of history was discovered lying in an aircraft boneyard in Wisconsin. It was the Douglas C-47 “That’s All, Brother” — the airplane that led the massed paratroop drop on D-Day. The Commemorative Air Force reports it is in the final stages of acquiring “That’s All, Brother,” noting the C-47 will be […]
First data analysis app store for drone industry launched
RALEIGH, N.C. — The Algorithm Marketplace, launched this week in Beta by PrecisionHawk, provides automated analysis of aerial data acquired by Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA). Using sophisticated algorithms, RPA operators no longer need a background in geographic information system (GIS) or remote sensing to interpret their aerial data. Instead, the marketplace provides an action-based report to improve management […]