SALINA, Kan. — Flower Aviation is increasing its presence on the Salina Municipal Airport with a new $500,000 customer service center and a $1.7 million hangar for overnight transient aircraft storage. The 30,800-square-foot hangar is capable of storing business aircraft up to the size of a Gulfstream G550.
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From boxes to flying in less than 3 months, with Glasairs help
Want to build your own aircraft, but don’t want to wait years to fly? New Builder Assist Centers are popping up for all manufacturers, including Glasair Aviation. The Arlington, Wash.-based company’s Customer Assembly Center makes it possible for a pilot to build an aircraft in less than three months. The program is “intense,” according to […]
Guardian Jet Center breaks ground on new terminal
ONTARIO, Calif. — Construction has begun on a new executive terminal at the Guardian Jet Center at Ontario International Airport in Ontario, Calif. The new terminal, which adds 5,500 square feet of operating space to the existing 46,000 square feet of hangar and offices already at the Guardian Jet Center, will have an expanded passenger […]
NASA offers icing guide
Worried about winter flying? NASA now offers “A Pilot’s Guide to In-Flight Icing,” a free, on-line course intended for the GA pilot. The course provides tools pilots can use to deal with in-flight icing. Emphasis is on avoidance, detection and exit, as well as the effects of ice accretion on performance and handling and the […]
FAA certifies Primus Epic system on G450
PHOENIX — Honeywell’s Primus Epic integrated avionics system has received FAA approval for Gulfstream’s G450 long-range business jet. The G450 certification is the eighth regulatory approval for Primus Epic and the third on an aircraft from Gulfstream. The system has four 10- by 13-inch liquid crystal displays in a point-and-click environment. The displays can show […]
BRS names Williams president and CEO
Ballistic Recovery Systems has named Larry E. Williams president and CEO. For the past four years, Williams was vice president of business development for AmSafe Aviation, which manufactures restraints, including air bags for airplanes.
Design law led to Genesis crash
A NASA investigative board has found that an “elementary design flaw” is the most likely reason for the loss of the Genesis, which smashed into the Utah desert Sept. 8. Four switches, intended to signal the capsule to open its parachutes, were installed upside down, according to the board’s preliminary report. The parachutes didn’t deploy […]
Twin Star earns tech honor
Popular Science magazine has named Diamond Aircraft’s new DA42 Twin Star one of the top 100 tech innovations for 2004. Other selections include the 2005 Lotus Elise, the twin Mars Exploration rovers and the AGM-158 joint air-to-surface standoff missile.
Aviation pioneer Joe Funk dies at 94
In a simpler time, when a young man could bring dreams to life with imagination, drive and a little cash, twin brothers Joe and Howard Funk dreamed of flying. They realized those dreams in a succession of gliders and powered aircraft that many now consider classics. Joseph B. Funk died peacefully early in the morning […]