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AirVenture Diary: Certification Promises

Priced at $5330, the KI300 has a backup battery for powering the display for up to one hour, has speed and altitude tapes (which can be turned off) and can be installed as the primary (or backup) attitude indicator as long as the airspeed and altimeter indicators are retained. The initial STC includes the Piper PA46 series, but the company said a wide variety of approvals will follow within weeks. I found the instrument to have a decent display, plus it has a stone-simple feature set.

Another AirVenture at Oshkish is in the tailpipe and keeping with tradition, it’s time for our show diary highlighting stuff that caught our eye, and products we’re watching moving forward. First, some stats on a record-breaking year-which happened to be show number 50 there at Oshkosh.

At approximately 642,000, attendance was up 6.8 percent from 2018’s record total. There were 16,807 aircraft operations at AirVenture’s Wittman Airport, and plenty of others at surrounding airports.