BY BILL WALKER, For General Aviation News It’s not unusual for Bunny and Jeff Anderson to begin their Saturday mornings with a boat ride on the tidal creek a short distance from their runway home at Eagle Neck Airpark in coastal Georgia. The Andersons are a flying family but being near the water was one […]
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Czech Sport Aircraft tells its side of the story
Officials at Czech Sport Aircraft are now telling their side of why the deal with Piper Aircraft fell apart. In comments released yesterday, the company said: “After a year of having been marketed as the PiperSport in cooperation with Piper Aircraft, by mutual agreement, Czech Sport Aircraft’s SportCruiser is to once again be independently distributed. […]
VNY school trains A&Ps — for free
Despite California’s double-digit unemployment rate, career opportunities for students at Van Nuys Airport’s Aircraft Mechanic School are flying high. Enrolled at the only airframe and power plant mechanics training program of its kind in California, graduates who pass the required FAA certification exam are virtually guaranteed jobs, school officials say. “The Aircraft Mechanic School is […]
After a decade aloft, pilot is ready to land
San Diego pilot Robert Gannon turned 60 in September, and he thinks it is time to settle down. According to a report in the San Diego Union-Tribune, Gannon has returned to Gillespie Field in his 42-year-old Cessna 182, Lucky Lady Too, completing a 10-year odyssey that has taken him to 155 countries and all 50 […]
Longtime EAA VP Dick Matt passes away
Dick Matt, who was EAA’s first director and vice president of the marketing and communications departments, died Sunday at Winter Haven, Florida. He was 84. Matt had been an EAA volunteer since 1963 and joined the staff in 1983 as the organization was moving its offices from the Milwaukee area to Oshkosh, according to EAA […]
Hawker Beechcraft prepares for market upturn
Over the next five years, Hawker Beechcraft officials say they expect sales growth outside of North America to continue to outpace sales growth within North America. Officials also say they are beginning to see “stabilization in key market indicators and are cautiously optimistic that market recovery will begin in 2012.” ”We are seeing growth potential […]
ARSA establishes maintenance scholarship
The Aeronautical Repair Station Association (ARSA) has established a $500 aviation maintenance scholarship through the Northrop Rice Foundation. The development of a qualified technical workforce has long been one of ARSA’s top priorities as members routinely list a shortage of skilled labor among the industry’s biggest challenges. In ARSA’s 2009 member survey, 65% of respondents […]
Whelchel’s Tiger Moth: Low-time, high fun
Most airplanes are fun to fly, but there are some that are just more fun than others. Leon Whelchel of Vinton, Iowa, believes he’s on the high-side of the fun scale when he flies his 1942 de Havilland DH 82A Tiger Moth. The open-cockpit biplane was a trainer during World War II. When Whelchel taxied […]
The importance of the House GA Caucus
By DAVE HOOK, For General Aviation News Action. That one word differentiates aviators from so many of our earthbound brothers and sisters. We are used to taking action, resulting in the successful accomplishment of our flights. That same spirit of action should also apply to protecting our freedom to fly. That spirit is found not […]