Plane and Pilot

JUNE 26, 2025

A week later, I met Hunton and his wife at the Hangar Hotel at Gillespie County Airport (T82) in Fredericksburg to try the Jabiru 230-D on for size. Featuring a Jabiru 3300 120 hp, 6-cylinder, air-cooled engine, the aircraft was built to accommodate a 1,675 pound gross weight. Twist my arm,” I thought.

Aileron

Plane and Pilot

MARCH 25, 2025

She walked me through the foyer to the spotless, freshly painted hangar. The GameBird is right at home on the grass, pavement, or TacAeros clean hangar. Max Gross Weight: 2,200 lbs. Empty Weight, Standard: 1,300 lbs. Positioned perfectly underneath a large, TacAero sign, sat the GameBird in all its glory.

Knot

Plane and Pilot

MAY 3, 2025

You can see other Weick influences, such as the oil-damped tricycle landing gearall produced Cherokees are trikeswith a wide track to make crosswind landings more manageable. The owner I joined in partnership was the second owner of the Cherokee, and it was based right here, Widell says, gesturing to his spotless hangar at Twin Oaks.

Approach

AV Web

JULY 1, 2025

Lockwood Aviation’s maintenance hangar probably sees more Rotax-powered aircraft than many other shops in the country. Before anything else, these are single-engine, unpressurized two-seat lightweights with a max gross weight of 1320 pounds. Poke around the typical LSA maintenance hangar and you’ll see broken pieces.

Gross Weight

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. Max Gross Weight: 1,320 lbs.

Rudder

Plane and Pilot

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Combining the Gweduck’s advanced hull with its counter-rotating propellers means differential power allows crosswind water taxiing impossible in floatplanes along with higher hull-in-water taxiing speeds. “We But I have maintained 5000 feet at 6000 pounds gross weight,” notes Ross. A not so obvious advantage is taxiing.

Airplanes