INTRODUCING THE LIGHTSPEED AVIATION SURVIVAL GEAR KIT
November 5, 2021
Designed for pilots who experience an off-airport landing LAKE OSWEGO, OREGON, November 5, 2021 Lightspeed Aviation® today introduced the Aviation Survival Gear Kit, a pilot-designed emergency kit that could save the livesREAD MORE
Lightspeed Running for a Cause
October 29, 2021
Lightspeed recently had the opportunity to participate in Southern Timing Foundation’s Run the Runway 5K event in Florida. This special event was established to help support education through exploration viaREAD MORE
Aviation No Tie Downs: The rescue, community support and lessons learned
October 28, 2021
Episode 3 In this third episode about Truman and Craig’s crash, join Executive Vice President and Aviation No Tie Downs host, Teresa De Mers, as she learns what happened withREAD MORE
Aviation No Tie Downs: Fly it through the crash and survival lessons
October 25, 2021
Episode 2 We pick up our story as the pilots’ plane rests right above the forest floor and learn what steps they took to guarantee their survival following their crash.READ MORE
Aviation No Tie Downs: We’re going to put it in the trees
October 18, 2021
Episode 1 In the Spring of 2021, Truman O’Brien and Craig Beles, two pilots from Vashon Island, WA experienced what pilots prepare for and fear the most – a crashREAD MORE
Going There: Flying Over Niagara Falls
September 17, 2021
For our second installment of “Going There—the blog series where we present the how-to’s and highlights of flights to amazing places—we talked to pilot and aviation YouTuber Kevin Thornton, aboutREAD MORE
Lightspeed Tours Orbis at EAA AirVenture 2021
August 19, 2021
You couldn’t help but see the huge Orbis logo painted on the massive tail mounted jet engine of the MD-10 on the AirVenture grounds. Surprisingly, very few people in theREAD MORE
Lightspeed Video Features at EAA AirVenture 2021
August 7, 2021
We had such a blast at Oshkosh 2021 – check out what Lightspeed was up to and who we were collaborating with at the show, for some fun features! WeREAD MORE
AirVenture 2021 Was a Success!
August 6, 2021
We are back from Oshkosh 2021 and so happy to have been able to attend this year! Because of 2020’s “interruption”, we missed all of our lovely Lightspeed customers andREAD MORE
EAA Ray Aviation Scholarship makes difference for young pilots
August 1, 2021
The program supports the dreams of young aviators. Pictured above are Lightspeed Aviation President and Co-Founder Allan Schrader and Hobie Lippold, 2020 Ray Scholar. EAA AVIATION CENTER, OSHKOSH, Wisconsin —READ MORE
ATC Light Gun Signals in Real Life
June 22, 2021
You learned about them when you were studying for your pilot’s license. You can picture the chart. But would you recognize or even spot an ATC light gun signal ifREAD MORE
Going There: Flying the Hudson River Corridor
June 10, 2021
Welcome to Going There, a new blog series where we present the how-to’s and highlights of flights to amazing places—the ones that are on your bucket list or should be.READ MORE