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ANNouncement: Now Accepting Applications For Oshkosh 2014 Stringers!!!

Starting Early -- An Amazing Experience Awaits The Chosen Few...

OK... I'm starting this year's pitch much earlier than normal... but this year's Oshkosh, for reasons that we'll disclose shortly, will the busiest and most pivotal effort of our corporate lives. This year, we're going to do more than raise the bar, we're going to do some truly extraordinary things... in partnership with some even more extraordinary people and entities -- and we'll tell you ALL about it SOON. DON'T SAY WE DIDN'T WARN YOU...

Ready For A Laugh? ANN's Annual April 1st Edition Is Just Around The Corner!

YOU Can Be A Part Of The Aero-Insanity! Get Your Wacky Ideas In NOW!

Time is fast ticking down to a date the entire ANN staff looks forward to every year. See, each April 1st, we have a problem getting our stories straight... we make things up, we get silly, we exaggerate and lampoon. In other words, we act weirder than the loons who run Sun 'n Fun... and in this group, that's really saying something. (At least we get group rates on appropriate professional care... which comes in handy more often than we care to admit -- Ed.)

Airborne 03.17.14: Done Deal-Beech Bought, Aspen's New Glass, NextGen GA Fund

Also: Red Rocket!, BendixKing Adds Connectivity, True Blue Power, NEW TBM 900

The most common advice you hear from financial counselors is to have a diversified investment portfolio, and it looks like Textron has been listening to this advice. The deed is finally done, and for now, the Cessna, Beechcraft, and Hawker names will continue to live on ... under the Textron umbrella. Up until now, the problem with installing a glass panel primary flight display (PFD) in a simple VFR airplane is that the PFD can cost as much as the airplane. Now Aspen Avionics has changed that. Aspen has developed the first certified glass panel PFD built specifically for VFR

Aero-News: Quote Of The Day (03.18.14)

“EASA worked cooperatively with the GA community to better tailor the licensing regulations for general aviation pilots in Europe over the past five years. Today’s regulation contains the result of that activity." Source: Jens Hennig, Vice President of Operations for GAMA.

ANN's Daily Aero-Term (03.18.14): Digital-Automatic Terminal Information Service

The service provides text messages to aircraft, airlines, and other users outside the standard reception range of conventional ATIS via landline and data link communications to the cockpit.

ANN's Daily Aero-Linx (03.18.14)

Berlin Airlift Historical Foundation

The Berlin Airlift Historical Foundation is dedicated to preserving the memory and legacy of the greatest humanitarian/aviation event in history, The Berlin Airlift.