Vintage Aviation News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

Vendors set up to sell souvenirs and parts, and the new International Stearman Community Hangar hosts its own gift shop, historical library, and museum inside. They go through great lengths to preserve history, yet allow modern items of safety and convenience, such as LED lighting, radios, transponders and ADS-B equipment.

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Tail Airplanes Transponder Aileron 122

Northstar VFR

AUGUST 25, 2024

These checks take a full working day, so the aircraft is usually parked inside of a hangar. These checks require many more man hours, tools, hangar space, and aircraft downtime. T: TRANSPONDER INSPECTION (FAR 91.413) The transponder also must be inspected every 24 calendar months, even for flight under VFR (visual flight rules).

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Annual Inspection VOR Instrument Flight Rules Altimeter 64

Inspire

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Then and only then does one adjust the carb heat, trim, radio, or transponder settings. first appeared on Hangar Flying. The lesson learned is a simple one: Keep flying the airplane until it and the prop comes to a stop. The post Until the Prop Stops — Keep Your Head in the Game!

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Transponder Airplanes Hangar 40

AV Web

SEPTEMBER 1, 2024

My student sat at the briefing picnic table outside my t-hangar and, with a “humph,” laid out the sectional chart, the dead reckoning planning chart, and his solar/battery-powered flight computer calculator thingy. It represents the cutting edge of mid-twentieth-century flight. “Oh great,” he said.

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Flight Computer OAT Transponder Weather 98

Plane and Pilot

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

He noted that most airports income has held pretty steady over the years, with income from streams such as hangars and fuel flowage having stayed relatively flat. The PlanePass equipment installed on-field does more than track transponders. First of all, Coleton said, Vector is there to support airports. It includes cameras.

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Pilot Transponder NOTAMs Threshold 57

Air Facts

AUGUST 5, 2024

It has a mid-time engine (O-320-D3G rated at 160 hp), fairly recent annual inspection and 24 month pitot-ptatic/transponder test. A friend reminds you of a couple additional nuggets of due diligence to be reckoned with—a hangar and insurance. It’s equipped with ADS-B Out (GTX335), a WAAS enabled GNS 430, along with a KX-155.

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Density Altitude Ceiling Runway Weather 98

Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 7, 2024

Some bucks spent on a hangar, updated paint and exterior, and a little TLC under the cowling, and your 30-year-old Cessna 172 will keep up with a brand-new one, for a lot less dollars. Based on our needs, we added an IFR GPS, an ADS-B In and Out transponder, and most recently a simple yet full-featured autopilot to our trusty Cessna Cardinal.

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Cockpit Instrument Landing System Approach Pilot 106

Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

The J-4, also known as a Cub Coupe, had been dropped off in Kennett for annual in 2008 by its then-owner and ended up becoming a permanent resident when Hurricane Ike stretched inland all the way to the Missouri Bootheel, lifting it from the ground and depositing it on top of the FBO’s maintenance hangar.

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Runway Crosswind Rudder Pilot 98

Photographic Logbook

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Flying within the SFRA, whether it is within the FRZ or not, requires all aircraft to broadcast an assigned transponder code. change the transponder to 1200) after terminating flight following or cancelling IFR. change the transponder to 1200) after terminating flight following or cancelling IFR. That cannot happen in the FRZ.

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Transponder Approach Clearance General Aviation 52

Plane and Pilot

AUGUST 10, 2024

Added to the mix are a variety of aftermarket GPS, ADS-B-compliant transponders, flat-screen navigators, iPads, and new or legacy autopilots. Better to write it down sitting in your hangar on a rainy day than try to figure it out at 6,000 feet over the Okefenokee Swamp at midnight. One common remedy is the ubiquitous iPad/tablet.

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Cockpit Transponder Pilot Ceiling 107

Photographic Logbook

SEPTEMBER 22, 2024

I spotted something new incongruously placed in the Curtiss hangar. I was pleased to see this Detroiter outfitted with the same Garmin transponder that I installed in Warrior 481, though it is discretely mounted beneath the instrument panel where it intrudes less on the vintage panel aesthetic. The Fokker D.VI

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Airplanes Runway Pilot Aileron 56

Plane and Pilot

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Airtime inhabits a large hangar at the Tulsa Riverside Airport (KRVS) where newly imported CTs are prepped, and ongoing maintenance and upgrades are carried out for aircraft in the U.S. It was our completion center for our CF23 version of the aircraft, but it was a small hangar and warehouse. distributor for Flight Design aircraft.

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Airplanes Rudder Aileron Crosswind 98