The MarketWatch News Department was not involved in the creation of this content. SilverLight Aviation responds to the needs of American pilots in the US aviation market with an expanded aircraft line ...

A year later, Ermoshkin quit his job and started a company with two fellow engineers, called Airhart Aeronautics, with the goal of building the equivalent of automatic transmission for airplanes.

Simplifying flight—to make it as easy as getting into a car with automatic transmission—has long eluded the aerospace engineers creating new aircraft. While we’ve relied on flight controls such as ...

HPU 210 uses a Kawasaki motorcycle engine combined with an electric motor and batteries VoltAero’s new HPU 210 hybrid-electric powertrain could be used by people building their own light aircraft.

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has finalised a rule significantly expanding its definition of light-sport aircraft (LSA), opening the category to far more designs and possibly making ...