By CAROL LEE ANDERSON NEW HAMPSHIRE — Heavy downpours threatened to create a repeat of last year’s open house at Laconia Municipal Airport (LCI) in Gilford, but as if on cue the rain stopped and the clouds parted just as the doors opened to this year’s Wings, Water & Wheels open house held on June […]
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Flying safety and General Aviation Security
Flying safety is the focus of the summer 2013 edition of General Aviation Security, the world’s only magazine to focus on the unique security and safety issues for the general aviation community. “Safety in a flying magazine with the word security in its title makes perfect sense,” stated Dave Hook, publisher of General Aviation Security. […]
Quicksilver partners with IDENT to produce surveillance aircraft
TEMECULA, Calif. — Quicksilver Aeronautics has joined forces with IDENT LLC of Jacksonville, Florida, in a strategic partnership to produce a fleet of GT500 surveillance and intelligence gathering aircraft. “This partnership will result in allowing the very agile GT500 aircraft to perform persistent, rapid response, wide-area surveillance missions that have traditionally been assigned to large, […]
Congressman questions FAA authority to impose fees on AirVenture
In an editorial in the Oshkosh Northwestern newspaper, Rep. Tom Petri (R-Wis.) says the FAA’s demand that the Experimental Aircraft Association pay $500,000 to cover some of the costs of air traffic controllers at the show is “nothing less than another attempt to impose user fees on general aviation — something Congress has rejected numerous […]
FAA requests proposals for options to transition GA to unleaded fuel
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The FAA has asked the world’s fuel producers to submit proposals for options that would help the general aviation industry make a transition to an unleaded fuel. The FAA is committed to the development of a new unleaded fuel by 2018 that would minimize the impact of replacing 100 octane low-lead fuel […]
Delaware governor proclaims General Aviation Month
Delaware Governor Jack Markell has proclaimed June “Delaware General Aviation Month.” Across the state of Delaware, general aviation has an economic impact of $188 million annually. “We would like to thank Governor Markell and Lt. Governor Denn for their continued support of general aviation,” said Selena Shilad, Executive Director of the Alliance for Aviation Across […]
Challenge Air puts out a call for pilots for Paine Field event
A call has been put out for pilots and aircraft for Challenge Air flights on July 27 at Paine Field in Everett, Wash. About 20 aircraft are needed to fly disabled youngsters, according to organizers. Flights are exactly like a Young Eagle flight —15-20 minutes around a set course, mostly level easy flight — but […]
Patty Wagstaff to appear at Build A Plane’s Teachers’ Day in Oshkosh
Three-time national aerobatic champion and International Aerospace Hall of Famer Patty Wagstaff will speak at Build A Plane’s 2013 Teachers’ Day on Tuesday, July 30 at EAA’s AirVenture in Oshkosh, Wis. “We cannot tell you how excited we are to have the first lady of aviation come to our program and share her experiences with […]
The Big Birds return to American Aero Services
By BILL WALKER The surest sign of winter in New Smyrna Beach, Fla., is the appearance of some unusually big birds migrating south. These birds, the Collings Foundation B-17G and B-24J, fly in every year for their annual maintenance appointment. On a sunny Saturday this past November, the public got its yearly opportunity for an […]