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A highly modified Glasair III will be carrying Australian hopes when it takes part in the Reno Air Race Championships this month. The aircraft, known as the Baker Racer, is owned by Ian Baker of Advanced Aero Components of Bankstown. For its racing role, the Glasair III has been given a twin-turbo, six cylinder Lycoming

Bell 407 operators are set to benefit from lower operating costs after the manufacturer made some changes to its Maintenance Manual, which it says will significantly lower its direct operating costs. The changes have seen Bell  remove 14 items from the life limited section of the manual, and also made an adjustment to the on-condition

Terrafugia, which is developing the Transition ‘street legal airplane’, is preparing to move into a facility at Woburn, Massachusetts, from which it could commence low rate production of the car/aircraft from late 2011. “It is exciting to be in the facility where the first Transitions will be built for our customers and to see the

DAHER-SOCATA has received a Major Change Approval (MCA) from EASA for an ISR multi mission version of its TBM 700 and 850 turboprops. The MCA will allow DAHER-SOCATA to begin marketing their TBM-MMA demonstrator to potential customers. The aircraft is fitted with a retractable Thales AGILE 2 gyro-stabilised multi-sensor turret under the aircraft’s aft fuselage