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3 weeks ago | generalaviationnews.com | Ben Sclair

WELLINGTON, Kansas — Air Plains Services has purchased Petersen Aviation from founder Todd Petersen. Petersen Aviation has specialized in auto gas STCs since 1983. More than 39,000 aircraft use a Petersen Auto Fuel STC to burn ethanol-free auto gas in their aircraft. The STC library covers roughly 100 airframes, 35 engines, and a water/methanol anti-detonation injection (ADI) STC, according to company officials.

3 weeks ago | generalaviationnews.com | Jamie Beckett

Throughout the nation there has been a long tradition of evangelicals raising tents to welcome the public. Their intent is to comfort the believers while providing an opportunity to encourage newcomers to the flock. It’s been a largely successful program, unregulated and largely independent as it is. Aviation shares a common thread with these religious events. We hold air shows and fly-ins and pilot association gatherings. We gather the faithful to commune with our common interests.

3 weeks ago | generalaviationnews.com | Ben Visser

There is an old adage that success has hundreds of parents, but failure is an orphan. We see that when we look at the history of leaded fuels. When I started at Shell Oil in 1967, my first project was to optimize the lead and scavenger levels in auto fuels. I started by reading most of the technical reports in the company library. I was surprised to find that there was a long list of metals that worked as anti-knock additives.

1 month ago | generalaviationnews.com | Joni M Fisher

Every air show has a few aircraft that everyone seems to be talking about and the 2025 SUN ’n FUN Aerospace Expo was no exception. Like the embodiment of the aircraft flown in the 1960s cartoon The Jetsons, the Pivotal Helix, a single-seat, bubble-top Part 103 aircraft, captured the attention of the crowds at SUN ’n FUN. All during the week-long expo, crowds gathered at the company’s exhibit, as well as at Paradise City to see the working model flying at the beginning of the STOL demonstrations.

1 month ago | generalaviationnews.com | Ben Sclair

Barry Munsterteiger began flight training in 2021 in a Cessna 172M that included a CheckMate checklist. “One day during my training I arrived to fly and the checklist that I had normally been using was missing from the airplane,” Barry said. “I chose not to fly that day as I felt it was a critical item at my stage of training. That evening I bought my own CheckMate Cessna 172M checklist via their Amazon storefront.”Soon enough Barry bought a Cessna 182P and a CheckMate checklist for that aircraft.