EAA AVIATION CENTER, OSHKOSH, Wisconsin — The Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) has named EAA Chairman Jack Pelton Chief Executive Officer. The CEO position is a paid position, although Pelton will continue as EAA’s volunteer Chairman of the Board while he is CEO. He will maintain residences in Oshkosh and his hometown of Wichita, Kansas. “Jack has […]
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AOPA AV8RS programs awards scholarships
The Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association’s (AOPA) AV8RS youth membership program has awarded four scholarships totaling more than $22,000 to teens who are pursuing flight training in high school and college. This year’s scholarship program was funded through the AOPA Foundation, a non-profit organization, and made possible by the Emil Buehler Perpetual Trust. The winners […]
Documents, video available from NTSB forum on Loss of Control in GA
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The National Transportation Safety Board has released the public docket associated with its Oct. 14 forum, Humans and Hardware: Preventing General Aviation Inflight Loss of Control. The docket contains 38 documents. In addition, the NTSB made available new links to the video archive of the forum and through the NTSB Youtube channel so that pilots […]
GA aircraft shipments show mixed results
WASHINGTON, D.C. — New figures from the General Aviation Manufacturers Association (GAMA) show that total billings are up for the first nine months of the year, even though deliveries dropped 6.5%. So far in 2015, the GA industry has shipped 2,243 airplanes and rotorcraft for a combined value of $18.5 billion. “Although the industry’s performance […]
Fuel fraud amendment approved by House
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. House of Representatives recently approved an amendment to the highway bill offered by Representative Mike Pompeo of Kansas that requires the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to conduct a study of how tax revenues on JetA were diverted to the Highway Trust Fund. Since 2005, federal excise taxes on the sale of non-commercial […]
Raffle to benefit Reno Air Races
RENO, Nev. – The National Championship Air Races is selling raffle tickets to win a 2015 Lexus RC350F Sport, provided by the Dolan Auto Group, to benefit the organization. Tickets are $100 each and only 1,000 tickets will be sold.The drawing will be held Dec. 31, 2015, at 10 a.m. at the National Championship Air […]
Cowan named president and CEO of Soloy Aviation Solutions
OLYMPIA Airport, Wash. — Soloy Aviation Solutions has appointed James H.L. Cowan president and Chief Executive Officer. A mechanical engineering technology graduate from Purdue University, Cowan has spent his career in the aviation industry. He was the quality assurance manager for Dylan Aerospace, a Tier 1 supplier to the Boeing Airplane Company, before becoming an aviation client […]
Saving Brookeridge
Brookeridge Airpark (LL22), in Downers Grove, Ill., is the closest residential airport to Chicago. Now thriving, it’s hard to believe that this airpark was on the verge of being closed in the late 1960s. In the early 1950s, pilot Austin Talbert had a vision to create a residential airpark where pilots could live with their airplanes. […]
Scholarship winner solos
The Flying Musicians Association reports that its first Solo Scholarship Award recipient, Drew Medina of Vero Beach, Florida, a senior in the Vero Beach High School jazz, symphonic, and marching bands, has completed his first solo flight. Drew’s flight instructor, director/chief engineer at Piper Aircraft, Buddy Sessoms, noted, “Drew is quiet, focused, driven, and definitely very diligent.” […]