Editor’s note: This is the first in a two-part series on FAA certification of light sport and electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft. The second can be found here. A proposed rule ...

Pilots, Aircraft Manufacturers Connect as Midwest LSA Expo Opens The first day highlights include strong aircraft turnout and lots of demo flying.

The FAA has granted a light-sport aircraft airworthiness exemption to Pipistrel’s two-seat, high-wing Velis Electro, which allows U.S. flight schools to operate the electric aircraft for flight ...

The FAA has embraced the concept of simplified flight controls and featured it in its forthcoming refresh of regulations governing light sport aircraft and sport pilot certificates.

The FAA has released a 300-page unpublished version of a proposed rule that would amend and modernize its approach to regulating light-sport aircraft (LSA) to account for new technologies and use ...

In a major jump into the era of eVTOL air taxis and multicopter cargo drones, the US FAA has issued new regulations that introduce the first new aircraft category, called "power-lift" aircraft ...

The FAA is proposing a rule modification for certifying light sport aircraft called the Modernization of Special Airworthiness Certification, or MOSAIC, to incorporate the development of emerging ...

Twenty-one years ago, the FAA released a regulation often called sport pilot/light sport aircraft. Announced at EAA AirVenture 2004, this ruleset dramatically altered the way aircraft earned ...

Two U.S. senators are proposing legislation to require the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to rewrite aircraft evacuation standards to do a better job of taking real life conditions into ...

Why SilverLight? That Florida builder also makes the American Ranger gyroplane series and introduced their folding-wing Recon ...