Discovery flights, performances from local students, sports clinics, and Willie the Wildcat will all be part of K-State Salina’s Open House, Saturday, April 16, 9 a.m.-3 p.m., at Salina Airport (SLN) in Kansas. Willie the Wildcat will explore everything at Open House, so fans can expect to see him just about anywhere that day. He […]
News
FAA ups staff at 27 towers
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Effective immediately, the FAA will place an additional air traffic controller on the midnight shift at 27 control towers around the country that are currently staffed with only one controller during that time. The FAA is taking this action after an incident at Reno-Tahoe International Airport when a controller fell asleep while […]
GA’s new horizon
Erik Lindbergh, the grandson of Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh, is adding his support for electric aircraft development by some of aviation’s “first families,” including members of the Wright, Zeppelin, Piccard, Dornier, Sikorsky and Lindbergh families, along with HSH Prince Albert II of Monaco. “Electric aviation is our new horizon,” Lindbergh said at Sun ’n […]
A coupe by any other name
Ercoupe or Aircoupe? Which is correct? The answer is…depends on who manufactured it. The original name was derived from the name of the first manufacturer, ERCO, which stood for Engineering and Research Corp. The airplane is a low-wing design with a distinctive twin boom tail, which makes the two-place plane look a little like a […]
PiperJet mock-up on tour
Next stop for Piper Aircraft’s single-engine Altaire jet mockup is this week, April 15, near Westminster, Md., at Skytech Inc., located on the Carroll County Regional Airport. The mockup of the high performance very light business jet then travels to Columbia Aircraft Sales’ locations at the Westchester County Airport in White Plains, for exhibit April […]
What you need to know about FAA civil penalty actions
Attorney Greg Reigel goes into depth in his blog at GlobalAir.com about what you need to do if the FAA goes after your certificate. It’s information you hope you never need…but vital to know in case it happens to you. Check it out here.
Guidance Aviation wins master award
Guidance Aviation of Prescott, Ariz., took the “Top Master Award” at the Arizona State Capitol on March 22 during the Arizona Small Business Development Center Awards. This year, the AZSBDC honored 15 top performing Arizona businesses who “collectively created or retained more than 300 jobs; generated more than $4 million in new capital; and increased […]
ATC Command Center opens
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The FAA’s new David J. Hurley Air Traffic Control System Command Center, located in Warrenton, Va., is now fully operational. “If you think of our national airspace system as an orchestra, the Command Center’s the conductor,” said Deputy Secretary John Porcari. “It’s a 24/7 operation where the traffic flow is set for […]
