Eagle Creek Aviation Services, a factory-authorized Twin Commander Service Center, has begun flight-testing a Garmin 1000-equipped Twin Commander with Garmin’s latest software release. Eagle Creek is seeking supplemental type certificate (STC) approval to upgrade turboprop Twin Commanders with the Garmin 1000 panel and the S-Tec 2100…
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Rob Louviaux has stats. Such as: 137 different Twin Commanders have passed through Executive Aircraft Maintenance (EAM) since Louviaux, a 22-year-veteran of Twin Commander maintenance, went to work there nine years ago as Aircraft Maintenance Manager. And another: EAM counts 48 Commander owners and operators…
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The Model 560A was the third Commander twin to be placed into production, all by the Aero Design & Engineering Company at Tulakes Airport (later renamed Wiley Post) in Bethany, Oklahoma, near Oklahoma City.
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Fly the Caribbean! The many beautiful islands of the Caribbean lie at our doorstop off the southeast coast of the U.S. Imagine that the distance between the South Florida coast to the shores of South America is only 1,500 nautical miles.
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August 14 started out as a great day for an easy flight from Teterboro, New Jersey (KTEB), to Lewiston, Maine (KLEW), in our Commander 840. Ten days earlier we had replaced the tires on the main landing gear at Northeast Air, a Commander service center…
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Weather, in the form of METARs (Aviation Routine Weather Reports) and TAFs (Terminal Aerodrome Forecasts), are available on your GPS or on iPad Apps (like ForeFlight) in coded format. They are difficult to read until you learn the structure and abbreviations. This article explains the METAR…
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With U.S. investment markets touching record-high territory, we’d expect to see increased demand and activity in the aircraft market. That’s been the history – the market goes up, aircraft activity and sales up; market down, sales and activity down. So, is history repeating itself today?…
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Twin Commander Aircraft has developed a Custom Kit that addresses wear in a main landing gear clamshell door bearing, and has issued a Maintenance Alert for proper installation of replacement trim cables. Custom Kit 187 grew out of reports that the front bearing in the…
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Greetings, Twin “Commanders.” TCU is here – and we’re not talking about the Horned Frogs! Twin Commander University comes only once every two years, so from my dual viewpoints as Twin Commander Insurance Program manager and as one of Twin Commander’s most enthusiastic fans, I…
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