Murphy Aircraft has closed; AD 2026-22-03 on Rotax 915 and 916 iSc turbochargers

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Issue 3 · November 5, 2026

Murphy Aircraft has closed: what Rebel and Moose owners and builders can do now

Murphy Aircraft, the British Columbia company behind the Rebel and Moose kits, has stopped operating, and everything in its Chilliwack shop sold at auction on Oct. 22. Nobody has said who will hold the designs or answer for parts, support and open orders, and Hangar Flying's copy of the FAA registry lists 134 U.S. aircraft with Murphy named as the kit manufacturer. Flying airplanes keep their airworthiness certificates, and owners and builders should gather their manuals, drawings, build records and proof of payment now.

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Avionics & Electrical

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iPad mini (A20 Pro) as an EFB: an OLED screen to 1,200 nits, a matte glass option and IP67

Apple's new iPad mini, in customers' hands Nov. 6, has an OLED screen rated at 600 nits for everyday content and 1,200 at peak for HDR only, against 500 on the last two minis. A matte nano-texture glass option, the A20 Pro chip and an IP67 rating address the glare, the slow redraws and the rain on the ramp. The 32° to 95°F operating range is unchanged, so the old habits of shade, airflow and a backup still apply.

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Backup instruments for an all-glass panel: what 91.205 lists, and what builders choose

14 CFR 91.205(d) lists the instruments for IFR flight, among them a gyroscopic pitch and bank indicator, a direction indicator and a slip-skid indicator, and in an all-glass panel a small backup display with its own battery is the usual answer. In Hangar Flying's 2026 designs the Garmin G5 leads, in 783 designs, followed by the GI 275, the uAvionix AV-30 and the Dynon D30. The article sets their prices and depths side by side.

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Test & Fly

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Photo: Acroterion, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Transition training for an experimental airplane: what the NTSB found, Van's syllabus and who may give it

In its 2012 study of amateur-built aircraft, the NTSB found evidence of a transition training requirement for 8 percent of the 2011 accident pilots, while 58 percent of surveyed builders reported some training. FAA AC 90-109A puts the airplane the pilot will actually fly first among places to train, and Van's syllabus lists what sets an RV apart, from light stick forces to a subtle stall warning. Since 2023, an owner may hire an instructor to train in the owner's own airplane without a LODA.

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Photo: Electra.

Electra's EL2 demonstrator, an airplane, took off and landed at the Downtown Manhattan heliport

On Oct. 26, Electra test pilot Cody Allee landed the two-seat, hybrid-electric EL2 on Manhattan's Downtown Skyport and flew it out again, using blown lift instead of vertical takeoff. Electra believes it is the first airplane without vertical takeoff to do so. The company gave no measured distances for the day and has not said how the flights were approved.

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Upgrade & Maintain

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Photo: Unixxx, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The repairman certificate for an amateur-built airplane: who qualifies, what it allows and what a buyer does not get

Under 14 CFR 65.104, the primary builder of an amateur-built airplane can apply for a repairman certificate that allows one thing: signing that airplane's condition inspection. AC 65-23B sets out the application, from a notarized FAA Form 8130-12 to a demonstration before an FAA inspector. The certificate stays with the builder when the airplane is sold, so a buyer turns to the builder, an A&P mechanic, or a light-sport repairman where the operating limitations allow.

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Tips & Tools

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Photo: Quintin Soloviev, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Flight Window: a Hangar Flying tool that compares seven days of dates for a round trip

Flight Window, added to Hangar Flying on Nov. 1, takes a round trip and rates each departure date in the forecast against the others, for both legs and the stay, with the crosswind, ceiling, fuel and runway distance checks behind each rating. Its times and fuel assume no wind, and it does not yet check NOTAMs, winds aloft or smoke. It is not a weather briefing; it helps a pilot pick which days are worth briefing.

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Directives & Bulletins

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Photo: Matti Blume, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

AD 2026-22-03: turbocharger valve housing replacement on FAA-certified Rotax 915 iSc and 916 iSc engines

AD 2026-22-03, published Nov. 2, requires the turbocharger valve housing work on six FAA-certified Rotax 915 iSc and 916 iSc models before further flight after its effective date; the FAA estimates 51 engines on U.S.-registered airplanes. The AD prints two effective dates, Nov. 4 and Nov. 23, and an owner who works to Nov. 4 is covered under either. Its wording does not reach the non-certified 915 iS and 916 iS, but Rotax's alert bulletin for those engines calls the same work mandatory, including before installation for an engine still in its crate.

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Photo: KOMRADE DIMITRI, June 2023, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Lycoming SB 639A: rocker arm inspection on the O-320-H2AD and the O-360-E1A6D family, revised Oct. 8, 2026

Lycoming Mandatory Service Bulletin 639A revises the inspection of rocker arm P/N LW-15014 on O-320-H2AD and O-, LO-, TO- and LTO-360-E1A6D engines shipped from Lycoming since June 2017 with under 500 hours. The first inspection, at the next scheduled oil change, now removes the rocker arms and the hydraulic lifters, and a visual check follows every 50 hours until 500 hours.

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The Panel Designer at Hangar Flying

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Featured design: an American Champion Citabria panel, N822V, with its placards, colored and labeled toggle switches, labeled breakers, two uAvionix AV-30s and an engine monitor, all laid out in the Panel Designer.

Hangar Flying's Panel Designer lets a builder or owner arrange a panel with the instruments they mean to install. More than 28,000 panel designs have been started there.

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