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September 08, 2022

CTA and ÉNA partner with CAE to Electrify Piper’s Archer

The Quebec-Vero Beach Connection

The Centre Technologique en Aérospatiale (CTA) and the École Nationale d'Aérotechnique (ÉNA) of Cégep Édouard-Montpetit are making ready to convert a Piper Archer to electric power. The project is headed up by CAE in partnership with Piper Aircraft. The endeavor sets out to bring an electric version of Piper’s robust and popular PA-28-180 to the new aircraft market, and develop an FAA-Transport Canada approved, conversion kit for extant Piper Archers.

Saving Hearing: Saving Lives

Lightspeed’s Delta Zulu ANR headset affords aviators degrees of personalization, data availability and analysis, and in-flight safety hitherto unseen in an aviation headset. Owing to its combination of cutting-edge features, the model stands to forever alter pilots’ perceptions of the headset’s role in day to day aircraft operations.

Witness Stated That He Then Heard The Airplane Takeoff, Which Was Followed Shortly After By A Sound Similar To A "Door Slamming Shut"

On August 15, 2022, about 0630 mountain daylight time, an Aviat Aircraft Inc., A-1A, N26HV, was substantially damaged when it was involved in an accident near Yellow Pine, Idaho. The pilot and passenger were fatally injured. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 personal flight. A witness camping at the Johnson Creek Airport (3U2), Yellow Pine reported that, the morning of the accident flight, he observed the accident airplane taxiing to runway 35.