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The Wings of Eagles Discovery Center of Elmira, N.Y., has sold its B-17 “Fuddy Duddy.” The new owner is Martin Aviation, an aviation maintenance company based at John Wayne Airport in Orange, Calif. While details of the sale were not disclosed, museum officials said they were able to retire more than $3 million in debt […]

Last year was one of triumph and tragedy as Mother Nature walloped the country from floods in Southern California that closed airports to the devastating triple threat of Hurricanes Katrina, Rita and Wilma. GA came to the rescue in all those situations, as pilots volunteered for countless rescue and relief missions. The Civil Air Patrol, […]

Certification of the Eclipse 500, scheduled for March, has been delayed until late in the second quarter of 2006 due to what CEO Vern Raburn described as “supplier delays.” “We have been working with our suppliers to recover their schedules. Unfortunately, an in-depth assessment has made it clear that these slips will force a delay […]

The first Liberty XL2 was delivered to the company’s first private buyer in December. Retired American Airlines captain Thomas Sams and his wife, Mary Jane, live at South Lake, Texas. Sams has logged some 23,000 hours with the airline, as a CAE SimuFlite instructor and privately, said Liberty’s president and CEO Tony Tiarks, who sees […]

“Polished Perfection,” a painting by artist Sam Lyons of a gorgeous Luscombe Silvaire, has been selected for exhibition in the Horizons of Flight Aviation Art Exhibition and Competition at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport. The juried aviation art show is sponsored by CAE SimuFlite and Flying magazine. More than 100 entries were submitted but only 32 […]

Vice-Admiral William P. Lawrence, who died Dec. 2 at the age of 75, was a lot of things to a lot of people. One “achievement” he enjoyed talking about was his daughter, Capt. Wendy Lawrence, who became an astronaut and mission specialist. The admiral, a test pilot and first Naval Aviator to fly twice the […]

Potomac Airfield (VKX) near Washington, D.C., has reopened. The TSA closed the airport in November, claiming Airport Manager David Wartofsky was not following TSA-approved security procedures established in 2002 for the three airports in the Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ). Wartofsky countered the measures that were used at Potomac went beyond the scope of those […]

Two public meetings on a proposal to make the Washington, D.C., ADIZ permanent will be held this month. The meetings are scheduled for Jan. 12 at the Sheraton Hotel in Columbia, Maryland, and Jan. 18 at the Airport Marriott in Dulles, Virginia. Meetings will run between 1 p.m. and 4 p.m., then start again at […]

There’s no doubt that the top story of 2005 was the devastating aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina, Rita and Wilma, which battered the Gulf Coast, Texas and Florida. The heroes were the thousands of GA pilots who flew countless missions of rescue, relief and reunion. Angel Flight and other such organizations across the South coordinated those […]