Press Releases

LONG BEACH, California – (December 5, 2016) – Pratt & Whitney Canada’s (P&WC’s) turnkey FAST™ (Flight, Acquisition, Storage and Transmission) solution is being readied for P&WC PT6A-powered agricultural aircraft following advanced prognostic health management  trials with two agricultural customers: Field Air in Australia and Kinniburgh Spray Service in Canada. The...

LONG BEACH, California – (December 5, 2016) – Pratt & Whitney Canada (P&WC) has further enhanced its capacity to provide rapid, tailored customer support with a new field-collaboration solution using Librestream’s Onsight software to connect the aircraft technician and remote specialist using an interactive audio-video technology platform. Building on its...

The GE H80-powered Thrush 510G that was displayed on the floor at this year’s NAAA Convention in Long Beach, California may look like other 510G’s you’ve seen before – but it was actually some $25,000 times less money than the first 510G’s the company produced. That’s because of a special...

  The new Thrush 510AS built by Redbird is the most advanced agricultural aviation simulator in the world – and training programs in it will soon be available at our factory training center in Albany, Georgia. The 510AS is a full motion simulator, with all functional flight controls and spray...

Long Beach, CA — Air Tractor, Inc., the world's leading manufacturer of agricultural aircraft will rollout its redesigned website at the NAAA Convention and Expo in Long Beach, California on December 5th, 2016. The annual NAAA Convention, which brings together ag operators, aircraft manufacturers and others suppliers, is the ag...

At this year’s NAAA convention VeriFly GPS will debut in booth #1043.  While VeriFly has been cautiously introduced over the last several seasons in North America it will now be more widely available and publicly displayed in the VeriFly and partner booths. VeriFly has many innovative features that set it...

EVENDALE, Ohio – Dec. 5, 2016 – Prime Turbines is on track to provide full overhaul capability for GE H Series and M601 turboprop engines in the United States, Canada and South America. To facilitate post-overhaul engine test, GE Aviation and Prime Turbines collaborated to commission a revitalized test cell...

Thrush Aircraft to offer EEPC-equipped H Series-powered 510G in 2017 LONG BEACH, California – December 5, 2016 – GE Aviation’s Electronic Engine and Propeller Control (EEPC) system for its H Series turboprop engine has received type certification from the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA). GE’s EEPC is the business and...

LONG BEACH, California – December 5, 2016 – Turbine Conversions, Ltd has completed the first installation of a GE H75 turboprop engine coupled to an Avia V508E-AG/106/A propeller on a Thrush S2R-T11.  The first test flight occurred on December 2, 2016.  Turbine Conversions plans to amend their existing Supplemental Type...

LONG BEACH, California – Dec. 5, 2016 – GE Aviation is offering a $25,000 discount on the next 15 H80 engines purchased for Thrush Aircraft, Inc.’s 510G aircraft.  This limited-time offer makes it the best time ever for prospective customers to put a new 510G in their hangar.  The savings...