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February 25, 2009

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Over 17,000 Acres Were To Be Used For GA Airport

What started as an ambitious plan to expand operations at Los Angeles Palmdale Regional Airport (PMD) appears now to be on the fast track towards becoming a massive solar energy complex instead.

TSA Threats And Airport Privatization, With Reason Foundation's Robert Poole

ANN Daily Touch N Go: 02.25.09 (ANN's Short-Form Daily News Program) ANN Daily Aero-Briefing: 02.25.09 (ANN's Long-Form Daily News Program) ANN Special Feature -- TSA Threats And Airport Privatization: 02.25.09 (ANN Special Report, with Robert Poole of The Reason Foundation.)

Pitches Design Capabilities, Tooling For Outside Interests

With the current economic downturn wrecking havoc on sales of small general aviation piston aircraft, manufacturers are looking towards new areas to bolster revenues. On Tuesday, Liberty Aerospace announed the formation of a new Division, Liberty Composites, to market the company's experience in aviation carbon fiber structures to other industries... both inside and outside the aerospace field.

ANN Special Feature: Robert Poole, Reason.org, TSA Screening Woes - 02.25.09

ANN's Paul Plack talks with Robert Poole, Director of Transportation Studies for the Reason Foundation, about how the TSA is sitting on thousands of iris scans and fingerprints which were supposed

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It's Official: SAFE Incorporates, Schedules Inaugural Meeting

The Society of Aviation and Flight Educators (SAFE), has announced the incorporation of the organization in the state of Connecticut. SAFE is a new organization formed to represent the nation's professional aviation educators.

Avidyne Receives STC Approval For TWX670 In Cessna 400

Avidyne's AML Expanded To Include The Columbia/Cessna 350 And 400

Avidyne has received STC approval from the FAA for the installation of their TWX670 Tactical Lightning Detection System in the Cessna 400 (neé Columbia 400). This approval follows the recent STC approval in January of the TWX670 for installation in the Cessna 350 (Columbia 350).

Save Maintenance Money With The Educated Owner Video Series -- Now On DVD

Approach Aviation tells ANN that they are releasing 'The Educated Owner Video Series' on DVD. The Educated Owner Video Series is reportedly the 'first video series dedicated to helping aircraft owners and pilots increase safety and reduce the costs associated with aircraft ownership.'

By ANN Guest-Editor Max Trescott, 2008 National CFI of the Year ANN E-I-C Note: Our good friend (indeed, aviation's good friend) Max Trescott is up in arms over the TSA LASP cluster#$%^/mess/proposal/you name it and he doesn't sitting idly by while the TSA continues to make a mockery of this embattled process we've come to know as DEMOCRACY.

ANN's Final Program On The Development and Certification of the Cirrus FIKI System

As previously detailed, ANN had exclusive and unprecedented access to the Cirrus Aircraft team that created GA's latest FIKI certified airframe. It was a fascinating process... to look into and through ALL aspects of the design, manufacture, testing and certification of the 'Known Ice" version of the SR-22.