Czech company Evektor launched its all new Cobra

Hello 2006, goodbye 2005!
Looking back over the past year of new launches and news.

So, how will we remember 2005? will it be as the Year Of The Glass Cockpit, when airliner type panels made their way into light aircraft? All the major manufacturers have adpoted either the Avidyne FlightDeck or Garmin G1000. Will it be as the Year The CAA Overstepped Itself when it tried to impose ridiculous fee increases on GA?

Highlights of 2005:

	January Picture left: British Pilots Quention Smith and Steve Brookes land a Robinson R44 at the South Pole. EASE certification for Poland's Aero AT-3 two seater trainer/tourer.
	February Picture left: First flight for unusual German HPA TT62 powered by twin Thielert V8 turbodiesels. Bell unveils new 429 helicopter. CAA announces plans to raise fees to General Aviation by up to 40%. "The hike will crippple many GA companies and undoubtedly tip a number of operators over the edge," says Martin Robinson, of the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA).
	March Picture left: Steve Fossett files the Virgin Atlantic Globalflyer round the world solo in 80 hours. Garmin G1000 glass cockpit certificated for Cessna's 172. First customer DA-42 Twinstars delivered by Diamond. Symphony Aircraft is back in business in Canada, building the SA 160 two-seater.

April Picture left: First flight for Cessna Mustang jet. First flight for super-jumbo Airbus A380 Picture right: Mission M212 four-seat kitplane, one of three aircraft approved by the PFA. The others are the Zenair CH610XL and Tecnam Sierra

	May Picture left:EASA certification for Piper Archer with Avidyne glass cockpit. First flight for Dassault Falcon 7X long-range bizjet.
	June Picture left: Surprise world debut of Grob Utility jet at the Paris Show, followed by its first flight in July. Curtis Pitts, creator of the Pitts Soecial aerobatic biplane, dies at 89.

July Picture left: Steve Fossett (again) and Mark Rebholz fly the Vickers Vimy Biplane nonstop accross the Atlantic, following the route flown in 1919 by Brits John Alcock and Arthur Whitten-Brown. Picture right: Public debut of the Hondajet at Oshkosh.

September Picture left: First flight for ATG's fighter-like two-seat Javelin Jet.

October LOOP launched!

November Picture left: Jabiru launches first factory-built microlight, the £38,000 Calypso, enabling the aircraft to be used for training Cessna confirms it is working in a next-generation single engine aircraft.

December Picture left: Ray Hanna, former Red Arrows leader and founder of the Old Flying Machine Company, dies at 77 Liberty Aerospace delivers its first XL-2 seater - based loosely on the Europa Kitplane - to a private customer in the US. Socata launches TBM 850