Cessna’s Skycatcher was designed for the Light Sport Aircraft category, as well as to lower the cost of entry into aviation. It was also designed to be a teaching platform that could ostensibly replace the Cessna 150 series in flight schools. I have more than 300 hours in Cessna 150-series aircraft, of which a little […]
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NJ governor sets ‘Aviation Awareness Day’
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has issued a proclamation designating Sept. 29, as “Aviation Awareness Day,” to highlight the value of general aviation to the Garden State. The decree is the first such recognition by New Jersey in recent memory, according to officials at the National Business Aviation Association. The proclamation notes that New Jersey’s […]
World War II reenactment slated
The Collings Foundation is hosting a World War II reenactment and World War II veterans roundtable discussion Oct. 9-10 in Stow, Mass., with more than 150 reenactors representing several branches of Allied and Axis military. Fully restored military equipment of all kinds will be on display and participating in the living history event, including tanks, […]
Homecoming for first Colonial Skimmer
John Staber, who spent 11 years painstakingly restoring the first Colonial Skimmer C-1, flew it to Sanford Regional Airport (SFM) in Maine earlier this month to show off the plane to her designer and builder, David B. Thurston, and to Jack Tarbox, who was chief engineer for Colonial Aircraft Corporation in Sanford. The plane was […]
More airports to get recovery act grants
The FAA recently selected five additional airport projects for funding, paid for with $9 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) funds that became available because of low bids on airport projects nationwide. “Earlier ARRA projects came in under budget and these savings can now be applied to other projects,” said U.S. Transportation Secretary […]
Legislative confusion in Maine over ethanol and Mogas
Readers might have seen Maine’s Morning Sentinel report about the loss of mogas at the Norridgewock, Maine, airport (OWK). There was another airport in Maine that used to have mogas up until a couple of months ago, Sanford Regional (SFM), and the Lakeside Marina Seaplane Base in East Winthrop advertises mogas, but it now has […]
The new voting block in town
Traditionally, aviation enthusiasts are an ignored minority population. That’s certainly true when election time rolls around. Politicians rarely show up at the airport trolling for votes, which is ironic since aviation enthusiasts tend to be well educated, socially aware people who have an interest in the long-term stability of the system we live, work, and […]
GA pilots ‘in limbo’ at new Florida airport
Construction delays at the new $318 million Northwest Florida Beaches International Airport (ECP) have left local pilots “trapped in a state of limbo” at an abandoned airport site for months without fuel, maintenance or low viability radar, according to a story at NewsHerald.com in Panama City. The story, which can be read in full here, […]
Three times the charm
Women in Aviation, International and the Experimental Aircraft Association repeated the WomenVenture initiative, with a week’s worth of camps, seminars, panels, a networking breakfast and reunion picture during AirVenture 2010 in Oshkosh. “There’s just something about the energy that hundreds of women standing in the center of this giant air show, right here in AeroShell […]