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A heart-warming video released this month helps aircraft owners support disabled veterans, even as it educates viewers about the broader benefits of business aircraft to citizens, companies and communities nationwide. And while the video, produced by Universal Weather & Aviation, Inc., of Houston, concentrates on how companies can donate business aircraft to transport veterans being […]

While federal lawmakers say passing a long-term FAA reauthorization bill this year is a top priority, a lawsuit over training for air traffic controllers could lead to further delays, according to a report at The Hill, which notes that Washington Consulting Group has alleged that Raytheon Technical Services won the contract through bid-rigging. Raytheon denies […]

For the second time in three months the Jacksonville Aviation Authority has changed the name of Craig Municipal Airport. According to a report The Florida Times-Union, the airport’s name was changed in November to Jacksonville Executive Airport, but an uproar from citizens about removing the name Craig led the authority to change the name to […]

The Wichita Aero Club’s February meeting will  feature a panel discussion on “Aviation, the Environment and the Future,” featuring a panel of experts from the Charles A. & Anne Morrow Lindbergh Foundation, moderated by John and Martha King of King Schools. The panel will discuss the foundation’s work related to aviation, the environment, current trends […]

That’s the question AOPA’s Ian Twombly asks in a report at AOPA.org, which begins: “If an aviation company offered a moving-map GPS with a 10-inch display, a nation’s worth of charts and approach plates, flight planning, weather, a full aviation library, and the basic functions of a computer all for around $630, every pilot would […]

It’s been several months since the Luscombe Endowment chose the winner of its “WIN ME” restored T8F Luscombe. While her name was drawn back in June, the winner of the airplane,  Moiya Linden of Wickenburg, Ariz., was traveling and couldn’t arrange a meeting to transfer the airplane until the December holidays. Moiya has exclaimed her […]

Chuck Wiplinger has been appointed president of Wipaire, Inc. In a recent meeting to employees, Gene DePalma, assistant to the CEO, announced that the Board of Directors has elected Chuck to the new post. “Chuck is now ready to begin taking on more responsibility,” stated DePalma. Wiplinger began working for Wipaire in 1996 in the […]

A federal appeals court refused Friday to review a finding that Santa Monica can’t ban  jets from its airport because of safety concerns, according to a story in The Washington Post, which noted that Santa Monica had asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia to review a 2009 decision by the […]

Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA) President and CEO Craig Fuller told a gathering of the Light Aircraft Manufacturers Association (LAMA) at the U.S. Sport Aviation Expo in Sebring, Fla., that the aviation industry is depending on the success of Light-Sport Aviation to bring new people into aviation and keep current pilots from dropping out. […]