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Hartzell Offers Three-Bladed Top Prop Conversion For Barons

Kit Includes Two Props, Spinnners And STC, De-Ice Option

Hartzell Propeller told ANN Tuesday it has received an STC to install a newly designed, 3-bladed propeller system on Beech 58, 58A, and G58 Barons factory equipped with TCM IO-520 and IO-550 engines.

Chinese Aviation University Likes Skyhawks

Cessna To Deliver 72 More Of The Popular Trainers

Cessna Aircraft Company told ANN Tuesday it will deliver 72 new Cessna 172 Skyhawks this year to the Civil Aviation Flying University of China (CAFUC) for use as primary pilot trainers. This sale follows delivery of 42 Skyhawks to CAFUC in 2006.

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AOPA President Phil Boyer, On The Impending User Fee Fight

ANN Daily Touch N Go: 02.06.07 (ANN's Short-Form Daily News Program) ANN Daily Aero-Briefing: 02.06.07 (ANN's Long-Form Daily News Program) ANN Special Feature -- AOPA President Phil Boyer, Part Two: 02.06.07 (ANN Special Feature, with Phil Boyer on AOPA's preparations for the impending user fee battle.)

Bauer's Commercial-Rated Pax Leonhardt Bashes NTSB Report

Says He Takes Issue With Investigator's Findings

John Leonhardt was aboard the plane when South Carolina Lieutenant Governor Andre Bauer's Mooney M-20E (file photo of type below) crashed on takeoff from a private, unregistered runway near Blacksburg, SC. He says he takes issue with the NTSB's report on the accident.

EAA Opposes User-Fee Proposal/Fuel Tax Hike Included In DOT/FAA Budget Request

What the Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) and other general aviation groups had been predicting for months became fact today, as user fees were a centerpiece of the Fiscal Year 2008 budget request from the U.S. Department of Transportation and the Federal Aviation Administration.

AOPA Weighs In On 'GA's Biggest Threat'

GA's Biggest Threat Makes Landfall -- User Fees And Tax Hikes In President's Budget

For months, AOPA has felt the tension in the calm before a federal funding hurricane. But now with the release of the president's fiscal 2008 budget proposal on February 5, that storm has taken shape and is gathering energy: Tax increases and user fees for general aviation are now upon us.

GAMA: The Administration Opens 'Pandora's Box'

The hits just keep on coming... as the aviation world responds to the appearent attack foisted upon it by the president's newest budget submission. GAMA, for instance, tells ANN that despite projections of record aviation trust fund revenues generated by a sound system of aviation excise taxes, the Bush Administration has released a fiscal year 2008 federal budget that scraps the current funding mechanism for one that would impose a "user fee” regime.

FAA's NYC Kneejerk Restrictions After Lidle Accident Appears Permanent

GA Gets Screwed Again...

As feared, the FAA's rush to restrict VFR access to areas of NYC appear to be permanent. As part of documents just released by the NTSB, in the investigation into the tragic crash that took the life of NY Yankee Cory Lidle and Flight Instructor Tyler Stanger, the NTSB notes that the FAA has indicated that the temporary restrictions put in place just hours after the tragedy are destined to be made permanent.

NTSB Releases Factual On Cory Lidle Accident

Indicates FAA Will Make 'Temp' NYC Flight Restrictions Permanent

The NTSB released its factual report of the October 11 crash of an SR20 which took the lives of New York Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle and his flight instructor Tyler Stanger.