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Aircraft won’t be the only thing taking off at Albert J. Ellis Airport (OAJ) in Jacksonville, North Carolina, this spring. Airport officials say they’re almost finished with the infrastructure work that will support new general aviation hangars. “The hangars will be built by corporations or private individuals, we’re just putting in the infrastructure,” explains airport […]

Troubled times continue at Commander Aircraft Co., as the Bethany, Okla.-based company is set to be liquidated. After two failed attempts to find saviors for the bankrupt company, Commander’s December 2002 Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing has been converted to a Chapter 7 filing by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Delaware. All operations at the company […]

The time has come for a control tower at Frederick Municipal Airport (FDK), say airport manager Charles Abell and a lot of pilots at one of Maryland’s busiest airports. The tower proposal isn’t the only thing on Abell’s wish list. Public meetings about updating the airport’s master plan have elicited discussions of additional hangars, improved […]

Marianne Beard Nutt, a member of the WASP class of 1943, died Jan. 16. Nutt developed a passion for aviation when she was 7, after seeing Amelia Earhart. She did not have the money for flying lessons and was told girls could not be pilots. Nevertheless, she learned to fly, working odd jobs at an […]

You live in the South, so icing isn’t a problem, right? Wrong, as this winter’s Arctic blasts demonstrate. Wing icing has been in the news a lot, lately, and pilots should be paying attention regardless of where they live. On Dec. 29, the National Transportation Safety Board issued an Alert to Pilots concerning ice accumulation […]

One of the best shows on earth is getting underway off the coast of California as the gray whales make their annual migration north. Biplane, Air Combat & Warbird Adventures in Carlsbad, Calif., offers you a chance to watch the show from a vantage point 1,500 feet in the air, from the cockpit of a […]

City officials in Arlington, Wash., have locked the doors of the Air Station Flying Museum at the Arlington Airport because the nonprofit group operating the museum is behind in its rent and has failed to meet performance requirements in its lease. “They were supposed to make improvements to the World War II era buildings, such […]

Quest Aircraft’s Kodiak has successfully completed its 50th flight, just three months after the airplane took its maiden flight. With 40 flight hours on the prototype, the company is approaching its formal certification flight test program. The utility aircraft has successfully flown at maximum gross weight as well as in various CG scenarios, including extremes […]

Pilots will tell you that, with the exception of airparks, housing developments and airports are a poor combination. That didn’t stop the city of Long Beach, California, from giving the nod to a 260-acre development adjacent to Long Beach/Daughtery Field (LGB). The Douglas Park project, as it is known, has been several years in the […]