Having grown since a 2006 ownership change from a small operation with a handful of Piper Warriors and a single Seneca to a leading Part 141 flight academy comprising six locations and a fleet of 120 aircraft, US Aviation Academy is no stranger to rapid progress. On 16 May 2023 the Academy set forth that it had launched its second Airframe and Powerplant (A&P) training location at San Marcos Regional Airport (HYI)—a public-use airport in southeast-central Texas’s Caldwell County.
The NTSB has released its preliminary report on a 14 April 2023 accident in which a Piper PA-18A-150 Super Cub, registration N7278D, was substantially damaged during an off-airport emergency landing attempted by its pilot following in-flight failure of the aircraft’s engine. The pilot and his wife, the aircraft’s only occupants, escaped injury.
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