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March 16, 2009

AD: FreeFlight Systems/Trimble

AD NUMBER: 2009-05-08 MANUFACTURER: Nav Systems SUBJECT: Airworthiness Directive 2009-05-08 SUMMARY: This amendment adopts a new airworthiness directive (AD) for the Trimble or FreeFlight Systems 2101 I/O Approach Plus global positioning system (GPS) navigation system (2101 I/O Approach Plus system) that requires a software upgrade for this system.

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Diamond's Austro-Powered DA42 NG Earns EASA Nod

European Deliveries Of Newly-Engined Diesel Planes May Commence

Diamond Aircraft tells ANN it received the "much anticipated" European Aviation Safety type certificate for its DA42 NG, powered by the 170-hp Austro Engine AE-300 turbodiesel, on Friday.

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Aero-News Featured Aero-Casts For Monday 03.16.09

Flight Into Icing Conditions, With CFI Bob Miller

ANN Daily Touch N Go: 03.16.09 (ANN's Short-Form Daily News Program) ANN Daily Aero-Briefing: 03.16.09 (ANN's Long-Form Daily News Program) ANN Special Feature -- Flight Into Icing: 03.16.09 (ANN Special Report, with CFII Bob Miller of "Over The Airwaves.")

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Flying Club Dakota Impacts SoCal Hillside

Plane Was Among Five Making Lunch Run

Two victims of a fatal CFIT accident this weekend have been tentatively identified as members of a Southern California flying club, though authorities have declined to release names at this time.

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Aircraft Repo Man Expects Record Business In 2009

‘Grim Reaper' Expects To Net 100 Planes This Year

Economic hard times are having a profound effect on aircraft owners, particularly among those only marginally able to afford them in the first place.

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Wanted Man Abducts Daughter, Commandeers Plane In Suicide Flight

Police Say He Tried To Crash The Plane Into A Shopping Center

A Brazilian man sought by officials on rape charges last week forced his wife out of a moving car after a heated argument, and drove off with his five-year-old daughter. Heading to a local airport, the man commandeered a sight-seeing flight at gunpoint, and proceeded to fly the plane for about an hour before fatally crashing near a busy shopping center.

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Noted CFI Rich Stowell Resigns From NAFI

Throws Full Support Behind SAFE

Not all the stories that hit the ANN inbox are terribly surprising. On Sunday, Aero-News received word that Rich Stowell, 2006 National Flight Instructor of the Year, has resigned as a member of the National Association of Flight Instructors (NAFI).

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Aero-TV: Women in Aviation 2009 -- Uplift, Outreach, Aviation

Aviation's Most Positive Gathering Takes Atlanta by Storm 

The theme for the 20th Annual International Women in Aviation (WAI) Conference, concluded late last month, was "A New Approach for Your Tomorrow," but the Conference's underlying thrust was unquestionably jobs and the economy.

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The Envelope Please: 2009 General Aviation Awards Winners Named

Will Be Honored At EAA AirVenture 2009

In each of the past 45 years, the General Aviation Awards program and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) have recognized a small group of aviation professionals in the fields of flight instruction, aviation maintenance, avionics, and safety for their contributions to aviation, education, and flight safety.

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