Wilson Air Center recently hosted the 13th Annual Pilatus Owners and Pilots Association (POPA) Convention in Memphis. Thirty-five aircraft visited for a long weekend of classes, education, demonstrations and static displays. The world-renowned Memphis Peabody Hotel was the convention headquarters. Craig Fuller, AOPA president, was the keynote speaker, delivering a talk on the need and […]
Duncan completes first Aircell broadband systems in Falcons
Duncan Aviation recently delivered the first Falcon 900 with Aircell Axxess and ATG 4000 High Speed Internet System. Duncan Aviation will soon deliver the first Falcon 50 with the same system. The Axxess system, coupled with the ATG 4000, provide worldwide Iridium voice telephone service and broadband data in the continental United States. To read […]
Cessna EVS STC awarded
One Sky Aviation and Forward Vision recently received an STC to install Forward Vision’s EVS-100 (powered by Max-Viz) Enhanced Vision System as an “All Models List” for the entire Cessna single engine piston product line, including the 100 series, 206, and 207 models. Patrick Farrell, president of Forward Vision, notes the STC includes all 158 […]
Shortened approach leads to accident
The student pilot’s misjudged landing flare and inadequate recovery from a bounced landing that resulted in a loss of directional control.
Historic Essex County Airport has a lofty past
The general aviation airport in Essex County, New Jersey, is, at the age of 80, “a place of stories as varied as the 283 aircraft … parked off its two runways,” wrote Philip Read in the June 21 Essex Star-Ledger. The facility, operated since 1975 by the Essex County Improvement Authority, also is “home to […]
Aviation group starts youngsters flying
Christian Ramirez, 12, had thought he’d seen all his hometown had to offer until he took his first flight and saw it from the sky, according to a June 21 article in the Chico (Calif.) Enterprise-Record. “Butte College looks bigger on the inside,” Christian, a Chico native, said. “It just looks so small from up […]
WWII bomber recovered from Lake Michigan
A World War II dive bomber removed from the depths of Lake Michigan flew combat missions during that war, an official from a Hawaiian museum told the Waukegan (Illinois) News-Sun on June 20. Kenneth DeHoff, executive director of the Pacific Aviation Museum, said the Douglas SBD Dauntless raised from the Great Lake near Waukegan will […]
‘Shoestring staffing’ at radar facility closes busy airspace
The Federal Aviation Administration was forced to close several air corridors for 30 minutes, June 19, as a “desperation move” to avoid a serious safety risk when its “poor management and woeful staffing reached this breaking point” at Washington Center, according to the National Air Traffic Controllers Association. One controller at the Leesburg, Virginia center, […]
WASP to receive top civilian honor
Legislation honoring the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP), who flew more than 60,000,000 miles from 1942 to 1944 on every type of assignment but air combat, has passed both houses of Congress, the online newsletter AVweb reported on June 22. The Hutchison-Mikulski Bill passed the House on June 16, sponsored by 334 representatives. It had […]