Janice Wood

Victor Aviation Service, Inc. in Palo Alto, Calif., has been chosen as a preferred Teledyne Continental Motors and Lycoming Engine overhaul provider for Pinnacle Air Network. Pinnacle Air Network represents North America’s most respected names in aircraft sales, suppliers and customer service, according to company officials. The Pinnacle group includes facilities in Canada, Mexico and […]

As hurricane and tornado seasons approach, funding for the National Weather Service will be nearly 30% less than the first half of 2011, if the Continuing Resolution proposed by the House majority is enacted, according to officials with the agency, which provides weather forecasting for aviation. Congress’s move will necessitate work furloughs and force rolling […]

Included in the FAA reauthorization bill introduced last week is language created by Representative Sam Graves (R-Mo.) and Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) offering protection to residential through-the-fence agreements. Both the Senate and House bills forbid the FAA from stating that an airport is “in violation of a grant assurance…solely because the sponsor enters into an […]

REMOS Aircraft has just completed a cold weather testing program in Grand Forks, N.D. The Light Sport Aircraft (LSA) was taken to the northern region by the REMOS factory in an effort to determine how the aircraft would perform in extreme cold environments. According to Early Boyter, Vice President of Marketing and Sales for REMOS, […]

A run of bad weather — including numerous heavy, wet snowfalls that left several inches of water trapped below the snow and above the frozen surface of New Hampshire’s Lake Winipisakee — has forced the volunteers who operate the only ice runway in the United States to declare the season over, according to a report […]

Rep. Dan Lipinski (D-Ill.) is proposing to add a clause to the FAA reauthorization bill that would provide grants and loan guarantees for aircraft operators to equip for the NextGen program, according to a report from Aviation Week, which notes that under the proposal, the FAA would be authorized to issue grants of up to […]

The Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT), with the support of the FAA, is conducting a statewide Aviation Economic Impact Study. This effort will communicate in detail the economic value that airports bring to the state, its communities and its wide range of users, according to officials. Washington state’s system of 138 public airports contributes […]