The FAA’s Southern Region Airports Division has selected Stennis International Airport in Bay St. Louis, Miss., to receive the 2005 General Aviation Airport Safety Award. Immediately following Hurricane Katrina, Airport Manager Bill Cotter and his son cleared debris from operational and safety areas and repaired runway edge lights to allow resumption of night operations. The […]
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Columbia wants you to ‘flip the bird’
Want to buy a Columbia 350 or 400, but don’t know what to do with your current airplane? “Flip the bird.” That’s the new program from Columbia Aircraft, designed to help owners with the resale of their aircraft so they can more easily step up to a new Columbia. The program is called “Flip the […]
Cirrus deliveries up in 2005
Cirrus Design Corp. shipped 600 planes in 2005, a 9.2% increase over 2004. And that trend should continue, as the company registered 701 new orders last year. On the manufacturing side, Cirrus reached a production milestone by manufacturing its 2,000th airplane in 2005, just six years after production began. According to 2005 data from the […]
Extra Aircraft turns 25
Extra Aircraft celebrates a milestone this year: its 25th anniversary. Executives are predicting a record year for the company, which produces the aerobatic EA-200 and EA-300, as well as the EA-400, a six-seat piston aircraft and the EA-500, the turboprop version of the 400. Extra Aircraft will have a number of events and giveaways throughout […]
Flight Design delivers 24 CT’s
It also was a good year for Flight Design USA, distributor of the technically advanced CT Light Sport Aircraft (LSA). It delivered 45 planes to customers in the United States in 2005, leading the LSA industry. Expect that trend to continue this year, says Tom Peghiny, president, who notes an equal number of deliveries are […]
Ormand Beach Aviation leases 35 Liberty XL2’s
Ormond Beach Aviation, Inc., based at Ormond Beach Airport (OMN) in Florida, has agreed to lease up to 35 Liberty XL2 aircraft from LAFT, LLC of Helena, Mont. The XL2s will replace the flight school’s single-engine Cessna and Piper training aircraft. Ormond Beach Aviation offers specialized accelerated residential flight training to pilots, particularly from Europe, […]
Ninety-Nines launches fundraising campaign
The Ninety-Nines Museum of Women pilots has launched a worldwide fundraising campaign. Through it’s “Wings for History” endowment fund, the Oklahoma City museum is asking for support through donations of airplanes. Helen Holbird of Oklahoma City, a member of the Ninety-Nines, was the first to donate an aircraft. Money from the sale of her Cessna […]
WWII airmen remains identified
The remains of a World War II airman found atop a California glacier have been identified as Leo Mustonen, 22, of Brainerd, Minn. Mustonen was one of four cadets killed when their AT-7 navigational trainer went off course and crashed during a training flight Nov. 18, 1942. Hikers in King County National Park discovered Mustonen’s […]
SBA weighs in against ADIZ
The Small Business Administration’s Office of Advocacy has added its voice in opposition to the Washington, D.C., ADIZ. In comments filed Feb. 6 — the last day for the public to comment on the FAA proposal to make the Washington, D.C. Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ) permanent — the agency urged the FAA to get […]