No ‘Smoking Gun’ Found For UND Engine Wear Issue

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Piper Archer training aircraft operated by a flight school in California, not affiliated with UND.

Credit: Bill Carey
Industry and FAA testing thus far has revealed no “smoking gun” to explain the engine wear issue experienced by the University of North Dakota (UND) flight school last year after it switched to using unleaded aviation gasoline, a Lycoming Engines executive said April 23. UND’s John D. Odegard School...
Bill Carey

Bill covers business aviation and advanced air mobility for Aviation Week Network. A former newspaper reporter, he has also covered the airline industry, military aviation, commercial space and uncrewed aircraft systems. He is the author of 'Enter The Drones, The FAA and UAVs in America,' published in 2016.

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