Since 2004, AmSafe has been providing airbag seatbelt restraint to general aviation customers. Their devices have been standard equipment on Cessna Single Engine and Cirrus SR20/22 since 2005. They have also been offered as standard equipment on Diamond DA-40/42, Mooney and Air Tractor aircraft for many years. The company has an Approved Model List (AML) STC which covers a large number of the general aviation population of aircraft. Each of these airbag kits is designed and customized to support these applications and we have had many successful airbag deployments providing significant safety protection, while mitigating serious injury or worse in… more

Check out Parent Guide News for the latest travel products, including the only FAA-approved child safety restraint system that replaces a carseat on an airplane. Hundreds of unreported injuries happen to toddlers on planes annually as they cannot brace themselves for normal turbulence. This harness keeps them put and also frees a parent’s hands from carrying a huge carseat on board (which rarely fits in the smaller seats anyway.) $74.95 kidsflysafe.com

What’s summer break without a vacation? You can simplify your summer flights with the help of a CARES (Child Aviation Restraint System) harness. With the compact solution, you can skip lugging your children’s car seats through the terminals and keep them safe and secure in their seats on board the flight with a CARES harness. It straps around the back of their seat to provide shoulder straps that connect with the airplane’s existing lap belt. It will eliminate a lot of the wiggles without the bulky size, weight, and difficulty of bringing your full sized car seat onto the flight…. more

Airbag seatbelts are now available for retrofit in 150 different types of general aviation airplanes. We think the added occupant protection is worth the cost. We’ve long urged aircraft owners to retrofit shoulder harnesses for all seats We’ve long urged aircraft owners to retrofit shoulder harnesses for all seats of their airplanes if at all possible. The simple reason is that a restraint system that keeps your head and upper torso from smacking into the instrument panel or seat in front of you during an accident sequence is the single most effective mod you can make to your airplane to radically… more