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January 21, 2014

Airborne 01.21.14: More Sebring 2014, Tecnam, Mead Floats, RV12, Garmin, D-Motor

Also: P-40 Restoration, AirBoss Covers Sebring, Aspen NTSB Report, SpaceX Chute-Out, Your Name On An Asteroid!

While at the U.S. Sport Aviation Expo, ANN CEO and Editor-In-Chief, Jim Campbell took the opportunity to check out and fly the Tecnam P-2008 and get caught up on the latest at Tecnam. Garmin has introduced the GDL 39 3D, a portable ADS-B and GPS receiver which adds simultaneous display of aircraft attitude information, alongside rich, interactive mapping, traffic, and weather within the Garmin Pilot application. D-Motor USA and Renegade Light Sport brings us new choices to power our light sport aircraft. Available in a 95 and 130 version, they

"The global economy has remained persistently sluggish, and with its recovery taking longer than originally anticipated, 2013 continued to be a challenging year for aviation. Despite this difficult environment, we put in a solid performance overall." Source: Guy Hachey, President and Chief Operating Officer, Bombardier Aerospace, announced aircraft deliveries for 2013.

A term displayed on charts and approach plates and included in FDC NOTAMs to alert pilots that segments of either an instrument approach procedure or a route are not navigable because of either the absence or unusability of a NAVAID.

Aviation Archaeological Investigation and Research

AAIR researches and documents military aircraft crash sites in the Western US. Frustrated with the long wait and the cost of obtaining documents from the government, AAIR started acquiring all of the military accident report and aircraft record card microfilm reels, close to 2000 in all.