Leading Edge Jet Center now offers Sustainable Aviation Fuel at its FBO at King County International Airport-Boeing Field (KBFI) in Seattle, one of the busiest general aviation airports in the United States, in partnership with Avfuel.
With this latest initiative, Leading Edge Jet Center is positioning its FBO at KBFI as the first FBO in the state of Washington to offer the green alternative fuel, according to company officials.
“We are proud to be a first mover in offering sustainable aviation fuel at BFI, contributing to Seattle’s goal of reducing total greenhouse gas emissions 58% by 2030,” said Steven Levesque, Leading Edge Jet Center’s executive chairman.
Leading Edge Jet Center BFI was established in September 2020 with the acquisition of Kenmore Aero Services.
The FBO and Avfuel will provide customers with an approximately 7,300-gallon load of blended sustainable aviation fuel. SAF is estimated to have an 80% lower carbon footprint than conventional jet fuel, making it an important part of the aviation sector’s long-term strategy to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions, company officials explain.
Founded in 2005 and established as a standalone company in 2019, Leading Edge Jet Center also has locations at the Roberts Field Airport (KRDM) in Redmond, Oregon, and Bend Municipal Airport (KBDN) in Central Oregon and is seeking opportunities to expand, company officials report.
Forget about a 100LL replacement, it’s Jet-A replacement. Also, it contains no ethanol. Food from natural gas and oil? It’s been done for a century. Small example: ethylene –> ethylene glycol (anti-freeze, aircraft deicing fluid, food additive common in most “soft” baked goods, dynamite) –> polyethylene glycol (medicine).
Indeed the SAF Jet fuel is not an ethanol product.It is much more akin to biodiesel a transesterified vegetable oil.
Some just seem to comment before reading what they are commenting about.
To add to your list, at one time a lot of white vinegar was made from coal.
I did some research on the cos. involved;
from the Avfuel website; ‘Avfuel sources it concentrated SAF from Gevo, Inc.,’….’created from cornstarch.’
from the Gevo website; https://gevo.com/products/sustainable-aviation-fuel/
‘ Our Alcohol-to-Jet Synthetic Paraffinic Kerosene (ATJ-SPK) is Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF).’
so, no alcohol.?
Thanks for the information. I did not check the Avfuel site and made the assumption,(whoops), that the SAF was basically the same as that made by BP and SkyNRG. Those are both plant based oil derived. Those fuels have been in use in Europe since about 2011.
Again, thanks for pointing out this is yet another type of jet fuel. I only deal with gasoline so I don’t keep up at all with turbine fuels.
Gevo produces gasoline from the same base stocks…which starts with fermenting corn.
The E10 fuels here in CA have destroyed my chainsaw and string trimmer fuel systems. I now use only 100LL avgas in all my small engines.
[ I’m a pilot so avgas is easy for me to get ].
Alcohol formulated for sure.
Alcohol destroys on contact the “slosh” type of red colored fuel tank sealant used on many wet wing airplanes.
Mooney, Cardinal, Cessna 402 tip tanks, Widgeon, RV’s
Oh Great. ! more synthetic fuels make from corn….!
I’m ok with this as soon as someone has a process for making food from oil or nat. gas.
Until then, let’s burn the oil and eat the corn…and no more ethanol, unless it’s bottled for human consumption.