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Spring will bring a new terminal building to Connellsville Airport (VVS) in Pennsylvania. The project is the latest in a string of improvements the Fayette County Airport Authority has been slowly making to the pre-World War II airport over the past two years. The airport, located approximately 50 miles southeast of Pittsburgh, was opened in […]

The $5 billion allocated by the federal government to compensate U.S. airlines for lost revenue after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks was amazingly close to the actual financial setbacks the airlines sustained, according to two researchers in the College of Business at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. In their study, Dr. Notis Pagiavlas and Dr. Vitaly […]

In February, flood waters from the Santa Clara River tore a large chunk out of the runway at Santa Paula Airport (SZP) in Southern California. Now the taxiway has been closed to create a makeshift runway, allowing the airport to reopen. “Essentially, we got permission from the California Department of Transportation to build a 2,000-foot […]

The Ohio Senate has passed a homeland security bill that is much friendlier to general aviation than it had first appeared. As it was introduced, Senate Bill 9, sponsored by Senate President Jeff Jacobson, would have required airports to screen all GA passengers, maintain five-year logs of all transient aircraft, and require double locks on […]

This just in: Noise complaints at the Hayward Executive Airport (HWD) in the San Francisco Bay Area are now focusing on one segment of general aviation: helicopters used by news gathering organizations. At a recent public hearing, Hayward city officials listened to complaints from residents who are tired of being awakened by the sound of […]

An agreement between the TSA and the National Fingerprint Collection Clearinghouse, a subsidiary of the National Air Transportation Association, has been expanded internationally. The clearinghouse, which has been training and certifying individuals to collect and process fingerprints for background checks since September 2002 for the TSA, will now take that work worldwide. TSA mandates that […]

As it marked its 30th anniversary as an independent agency, the NTSB issued a new publication that examines safety improvements that resulted from more than three decades of NTSB accident investigations. Titled “NTSB: Lessons Learned and Lives Saved,” the publication surveys safety measures inspired by NTSB’s more than 12,000 recommendations over the years. “We believe […]

The first Sport Pilot Tour, designed to ignite interest in the new category of flying, takes off in June. First stop is Marysville, Calif., as part of the Golden West Regional Fly-In June 3-4. It’s then on to St. Louis June 10-11 and Franklin, Penna., June 17-18. The tour includes sport pilot forums, education for […]

The Southwest Regional EAA Fly-In, known as the Texas Fly-In, is billing itself as a Texas-sized celebration of a little-known American privilege: the freedom to build your very own airplane. A wide variety of airplanes from homebuilts to warbirds will be on display — and flying — during the event, which is set for May […]