Also: 48th Annual Air Race Classic, Hot Air Balloon Fire, FAA v Banning 100LL, Complete Remote Pilot

The news Piper PA-18 Super Cub owners have been waiting for has finally arrived: CubCrafters announced the availability of an FAA-approved Supplemental Type Certificate, or STC, that increases the gross weight of the legendary aircraft to 2,300 lbs, more than 30% higher than the original specifications. The news comes after CubCrafters has been working on the down-low for years with industry partners including Lycoming, Hartzell, and others to make the Super Cub even better. On the heels of the first flight of yet another unique new type of aircraft to take flight with a Deltahawk diesel engine, their plans indicate that some three aircraft, the original SR20 (which ANN’s Jim Campbell flew two years ago), the Velocity V-Twin (Sporting TWO Deltahawks), and the recently completed RV-14 -- making for a total of four DH series engines to be

Also: Fed Smith Goes West, Brazilian Hot Air Balloon Accident, A-29 Super Tucano, 737 Replacement

A pro-Palestine direct-action protest group claimed credit for two of its members breaking into the RAF Brize Norton Airbase west of London during the early morning of June 20 and defacing two KC2 Voyagers while they were parked on the ramp by spraying paint into the engines and the aircraft exteriors, causing an as-yet unknown amount of damage. All racers have made it across the finish line for the 2025 women’s Air Race Classic, marking the end of a 2,426-mile journey that brought competitors from Fairhope, Alabama, to Spokane, Washington. The “Skybound Scotts” and “Frozen Force” teams led their respective categories. The race tradition started 96 years ago with the Women’s Air Derby, hosted in 1929 under the 1929 National Air Races. The Commemorative Air Force’s iconic B-29 Superfortress is getting rea

Also: Crewed-Uncrewed Teaming, FAA Collaborates, Complete Remote Pilot New Edition, magniX 

Eve Air Mobility has signed a Letter of Intent or LOI, with Future Flight Global to provide 54 eVTOL aircraft which will be deployed in Brazilian and U.S. markets. Future Flight Global invests in advanced air mobility (AAM) to deploy and operate aircraft globally. The future of advanced air mobility is looking increasingly bright for the US, with the President, Transportation Secretary, and Acting FAA Administrator all putting in the work to get air taxis in the sky. At the Paris Air Show, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy and Acting FAA Administrator Chris Rocheleau unveiled a roadmap to streamline certification and regulation of electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft—eVTOLs. Elon Musk and SpaceX posted immediately after Starship Ship 36 experienced a catastrophic explosion and subsequent Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly as fuel was

Easy Online Forms Available For Sport Plane Manufacturers And Suppliers To Be Listed In The Upcoming eSPRG

Work on the SportPlane Resource Guide is going well… Albeit a little bit behind schedule, because as we got into this process, things became a bit more complicated simply because we learned we could do an even better job at certain aspects of this project than we thought from the beginning. They say that the enemy of true quality is the phrase "good enough" and we want to be far more than “good enough.” FMI: www.sportplane.com, Online eSPRG Vendor Survey Form, Online eSPRG Sp

Also: Stinson Dodges Turtle... Tragically, AURA AERO Facility, ATC Outages, Elixir Sale

A team of US Air Force B-2 Spirit stealth bombers was responsible for a three-target airstrike in Iran on June 21. The strikes, which hit several nuclear sites, marked the US’s first direct military involvement in the growing Iran-Israel conflict. The mission aimed to take out three nuclear-related targets, including Iran’s deeply-buried Fordow facility. The weapon of choice? The 30,000-pound GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator, justly known as the “bunker buster.” In case there was any lingering ambiguity, the FAA has now made it crystal clear: federally funded airports cannot restrict access to 100-octane low-lead avgas (100LL). Unless, of course, they’d rather violate federal law and potentially pay $5,000 per day in penalties. Landing Fee insanity almost strikes again.... In a move that surely disappointed no part of GA, t

Specializes In Parts, Exchanges For Boeing, Airbus Fleet Types

Broward Aviation Services Group announce the acquisition of service company and aircraft material provider Support Air, near Dayton, Ohio. Broward was founded in 1996 and specializes in Boeing and Airbus fleet aircraft pre-owned parts for freight carriers and corporate flight departments via material sales, advance exchanges, and consignment services.

With The eSPRG Only Weeks Away From Its Start Date, A-AF Will Help To Support Sport Flyers, Worldwide

With the all-new and all-digital SportPlane Resource Guide getting ready for publication early next year, the Aero-News Network is pleased to announce yet another addition to the Airborne video news programming roster… Airborne-Affordable Flyers. Dedicated to keeping people up-to-date on the most affordable aspects of sport and general aviation, Airborne-Affordable Flyers is one of our most exciting offerings yet. A-AF will delve into more than just the current LSA community, but look at all aspects of aviation to examine and evaluate the most enjoyable, and most affordable, solutions to flying, operating, and owning aircraft in the 21st century.

From 2022 (YouTube Edition): Before They’re All Gone...

Humankind has been messing about in airplanes for almost 120-years. In that time, thousands of aircraft representing innumerable technologies, design philosophies, and aspirations both noble and contemptible have been built and flown. Airshows—the good ones—are lenses into aviation’s past. Events like AirVenture, Sun ‘n Fun, and Frontiers in Flight afford modern audiences glimpses of aircraft that shaped the world in war, and brought it together in peace. A peculiarity of time is the manner in which it converts ubiquitousness to scarcity. Airplanes that filled the skies in their respective epochs grow rarer, and rarer, and rarer still. The Boeing-247, the DC-3, the 727, Concorde: iconic aircraft all, and all passing, in turn, from relevance, to nostalgia, to obscurity, to oblivion.

Pilot Applied Full Aft Stick And Nose-Up Trim, But The Airplane Remained On The Runway

Analysis: The pilot reported that a preflight inspection and flight control checks revealed no anomalies, and the pilot, maintenance personnel, and another pilot confirmed that the airplane was properly configured for takeoff. During the takeoff roll, as the pilot reduced forward stick pressure to rotate the airplane, he felt the nose strut extend; however, the  airplane did not rotate. The pilot applied full aft stick and nose-up trim, but the airplane remained on the runway.

Massive Aviation News Event Started 2024 Off With a Plethora of Exciting Info

Last year, we introduced the SnF Innovation Preview in which 25 companies introduced over 30 new planes, products, engines, accessories, and more… in other words… a LOT of news. Rotax previewed the powerful 916iS, CubCrafters showcased the Carbon Cub UL, Bose introduced the A30, Aerox revealed the Boomula… and so much more. This year, we went beyond that... way beyond all that, with a larger selection of news announcements that covered ALL aspects of sport, general and commercial aviation... all at the start of the 50th Annual SUN n FUN Aerospace Expo... the undisputed start to the aviation year. This year was also a major news-breaker... especially with the announcement that the DeltaHawk Diesel engine folks were working with Piper Aircraft on an STC for the PA44 Seminole. It also hosted the first forma