The FAA has selected Sensis Corp.’s Low Cost Ground Surveillance (LCGS) for evaluation as part of its LCGS Pilot Program. LCGS is an FAA initiative to reduce runway incursions at small- and medium-size airports by providing air traffic controllers with basic ground surveillance of runways and taxiways. Under the program, the FAA has awarded contracts […]
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CAP’s Cadet Officer School takes off
The Civil Air Patrol’s Cadet Officer School kicks off today at Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama. The 10-day course, which runs through July 23, will be attended by 116 teens from across the country. Patterned after the U.S. Air Force Squadron Officer School, Cadet Officer School is an academically challenging, in-depth study of leadership […]
Flight Design hits 300
Flight Design has hit a milestone: The company recently delivered its 300th LSA. Flight Design’s distributor, Flight Design Mid-Atlantic, delivered the 300th plane to Kenneth Griffin of Southampton, N.J., who picked up his plane at Lancaster Airport in Lititz, Pa. The leading seller of LSAs in the United States, Flight Design was first to hit […]
Wichita Aero Club slates big names for upcoming meetings
Kansas Fourth District Congressman Todd Tiahrt will address the Wichita Aero Club at its monthly meeting Aug. 11. He will be followed by National Business Aviation Association President Ed Bolen, a native Kansan and former aide to Senator Nancy Kassebaum, on Sept. 23, while former FAA Administrator and current Aerospace Industries Association President Marion Blakey […]
Actor Bruce Willis to build his own airport in Idaho?
Actor Bruce Willis, who was recently spurned in his attempt to donate land for an airport near Fairfield to replace Hailey’s Friedman Memorial Airport in Idaho, may build his own airport near his ski resort. According to a report in the Idaho Mountain Express, Willis met July with FAA officials to discuss obtaining approval for […]
Landmark opens new facility at AVL
Landmark Aviation recently celebrated the opening of its new terminal at Asheville Regional Airport (AVL) in North Carolina. The $4.6 million project includes a new 5,000-square-foot terminal with a conference room, pilot’s lounge, and a flight planning area, as well as a new 23,000-square-foot hangar. This addition brings Landmark’s network to 41 FBOs, including locations […]
Sierra’s 2009 catalog now available
Sierra Industries’ 2009 catalog is now available, with information about Sierra’s Citation re-engining programs and many other aircraft upgrades. The 2009 book, which is also available online, contains 132 pages of reference information on Citation history, phase inspections, aircraft maintenance and Sierra modification programs. This year’s catalog has been reorganized by aircraft model, making it […]
New York’s first municipal airport
The New York Times spotlights Floyd Bennett Field, located “at the end of Flatbush Avenue where the eastern fringe of Brooklyn meets Jamaica Bay”. Included in the feature posted July 9 is a five-plus minute video showcasing all the park (“Decommissioned in the early 1970s, the airfield became part of the Jamaica Bay Unit of […]
‘It’s my insurance policy’
David Morgan from Monroe, Ohio is building an RV-12 in his single-stall garage with his wife Rose. He is quoted in the Middletown Journal article that… “I’m having a little bit of medical problems and it’s my insurance policy that if I don’t pass my physical that I can fly this with my driver’s license.” […]