On the kit-side of the house, Lancair is offering a $3,000 discount on a kit and one week of Builders Assist for free if four weeks are purchased— if you pay by Dec. 31.
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Flower Aviation expands at Salina, Kansas airport
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.
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 […]
Minnesota pilots upset over plans to close Crystal Airport
What is the best utilization of land? If an airport is operating in the red, should it close? How many operations are “enough” to justify keeping an airport open? These are the questions swirling around Crystal Airport (MIC) in Minneapolis-St. Paul in the wake of plans to redevelop the land. In late October, the Northwest […]
Forget shopping
The closest most people get to a P-51 Mustang is looking at a picture. Unless, of course, you get your hands on an “aircraft” that’s a computer simulation of the ones flown by the Tuskegee Airmen, the first black pilots in the American military. The simulator is part of the A.C.E.S. Flight Simulation attraction at […]
Fowl play
Forget breaking eggs to make an omelet. When you’re trying to break the sound barrier, you can — accidentally — wipe out an entire flock of chickens. That’s what happened May 18, 1953, when Jacqueline Cochran, flying an F-86 Sabrejet out of Edwards Air Force Base, became the first woman to break the sound barrier. […]
NASCAR puts brakes on new track
Pilots at Arlington Municipal Airport (AWO) in Arlington, Wash., no longer have to worry about a NASCAR track being built near the field. On Nov. 22 International Speedway Corp. and the politicians of Snohomish County put the brakes on negotiations. The ISC wanted the community to put up $250 million for construction of the track. […]
Are this season’s shows really that bad?
A Covallis, Ore., man got more than he bargained for when his parents gave him a flat-screen Toshiba television. He knew the set came with a built-in VCR, DVD and CD player, but what he didn’t know was that the TV was sending out a signal identical to that of an Emergency Locator Transmitter. The […]