Skyway Range is a flight test facility that connects Oklahoma State University’s Unmanned Aircraft Flight Station — currently OAIRE’S primary unmanned aerial systems (UAS) flight test facility — with the Osage Nation Skyway36 Droneport, and eventually link to downtown Tulsa. This corridor will be unique in both its breadth but also in its proximity to an urban center, according to officials.
Picture of the Day: Our youngest reader
Joe Thorstenson, a long-time subscriber to General Aviation News, captured this photo of his daughter, Sawyer, reading through the latest issue. “This is the morning after she took her 43rd flight,” the proud dad says. “Like me, she is fortunate enough to grow up around general aviation and I can’t wait to share more experiences with her. She turns 2 in January 2024.”
Scenes from the Fall Festival of Flight
It was rather cold and windy, but that didn’t stop just under 100 aircraft from attending the event.
CubCrafters delivers 1,000th aircraft
The milestone aircraft, a CubCrafters CC19-215 XCub, was delivered to Tim Sheehy, CEO of Bridger Aerospace, in Bozeman, Montana, in the company’s firefighting livery.
$66 million for airport improvements
The $66.2 million in grants in 2024 will go to airports in 23 states and Puerto Rico.
Missouri community college to establish flight training program at KCOU
The new aviation training program will be a college-accredited FAA-certified flight school. Graduates of the program will earn an Associate in Applied Science degree, along with all their certificates and ratings through CFI.
Picture of the Day: Merry Christmas!
Rob Stapleton captured this photo of a Cessna decked out for the 2023 Christmas season at the Lake Hood Seaplane Base in Anchorage, Alaska.
Tracking Santa’s flight
The NORAD Tracks Santa website, which launched on Dec. 1, features Santa’s North Pole Village, which includes a holiday countdown, games, movie theater, holiday music, web store, and more.
CAP expands fleet
The Civil Air Patrol, the world’s largest Cessna piston aircraft operator, has added four Cessna Skyhawks, one Cessna Skylane, and one Cessna Turbo Stationair H to its fleet of almost 550 Cessna aircraft.