The Terms, Parts Manufacturing Approval, And Supplemental Type Certificate Commonly Get Confused

If you’re a recreational pilot operating a small light airplane, the terms “Parts Manufacturing Approval” (PMA) and Supplemental Type Certificate (STC) are easy to get mixed up. It even gets more confusing when your friends, who fly homebuilt airplanes, never seem to care about this stuff but your mechanic gets all huffy when you ask, “Why can't I be just like those guys?”

Received Gold Medals At Gala In Germany

Switzerland’s Kurt Frieden and Pascal Witpraechtiger (Team SUI 1) were crowned champions of the 60th Coupe Aéronautique Gordon Bennett – the world’s most prestigious gas balloon race – at an elegant ceremony in Gladbeck, northwest Germany on Saturday.