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The future of sport aviation has arrived, but what does it mean to you? After more than a decade of work on them, the FAA has finally published the Sport Pilot and Light Sport Aircraft rules. It ...

(September 2011) To be sure, Experimental amateur-built (aka homebuilt) aircraft are not light-sport aircraft and never can be. But does that mean sport pilots can’t fly them? Apparently, there ...

Light Sport Aircraft can be flown with a sport (rather than private) pilot certificate, which takes about half the time to earn, and that helps to open the world of aviation to a larger class of ...

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 Kitfox S7 Super Sport is a high-performance, high-wing general kit aircraft by Kitfox Aircraft Corporation. Kitfox designed the S7 Super Sport for cross-country speed and efficiency.

Aircraft Mechanic Tom Pearson has improved on a standard Bensen design, added a four-bladed propeller, a muffler and ground brakes—an uncommon feature on home-built helicopters.

A sport aircraft pilot is in serious condition following a crash into an east Tulsa church parking lot Monday morning. A passerby called 911 about 10:25 a.m. upon seeing the crash, and first ...

Two people were hurt in the crash of a small sport aircraft near an airport and Interstate 11 east of Las Vegas, authorities said Friday.

However, the one aircraft that the US FAA hasn't allowed into the sport category has been helicopters. This changed on July 19, 2023, when the agency announced that its new Modernization of ...