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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 […]

Congressman Steve Pearce (R-N.M.) has introduced legislation that would guarantee long-term leases for those who build hangars. The bill would require a minimum lease of 75 years. The legislation also would require the airport to compensate those who lease hangars if the airport’s development plan requires the hangar to be destroyed or moved. Pearce introduced […]

Torrential rains in Southern California have closed another airport. Officials at Santa Paula Airport (SZP) in Ventura County made the decision to shut down the privately owned field Feb. 22 after the rising Santa Clara River undermined a tie-down area, a helicopter landing pad and swept away 155 feet of the 2,650-foot runway. SZP was […]

Celebrating a milestone anniversary this year — its 40th — is Aircraft Spruce & Specialty. The company started by Flo Irwin with a mimeographed sheet of products now boasts a 644-page catalog that includes more than 31,000 products. Nearly 20,000 packages are shipped each month from the company’s facilities in Corona, Calif., and Peachtree City, […]