Riley Aviation has been granted FAA certification to operate as an air ambulance service. Based at Kirsh Municipal Airport in Sturgis, Michigan, the company will serve as a fixed-wing, air ambulance designed to transport medical patients to and from the United States, Mexico, Canada and the Caribbean. Private charter operations will continue as usual for […]
FBO moves to KARR
J.A. Air Center, a longtime West Chicago (KDPA) based service company, has moved to Chicagoland’s Aurora Municipal Airport (KARR). The four-building campus features a 20,000-square-foot arrival/departure canopy large enough to handle large cabin corporate aircraft, more than 90,000 square feet of hangar space, 60,000 square feet of office space and a separate VIP arrival terminal. […]
StandardAero appoints new vice president
StandardAero has appointed Mary Ellen Keegan to the position of vice president, contracts based at its Component Services facility in Cincinnati, Ohio. Keegan will be responsible for legal support for all contract activity within StandardAero, including negotiation and review of all sales, purchase, and lease agreements for the business sectors. Prior to joining StandardAero, Keegan […]
Hands-free pilot’s light available
A flexible neck flashlight with a super-bright red or white LED is now available from Sporty’s. The light’s flexible 3-inch neck can be twisted and turned to illuminate charts or for emergency panel lighting. An included clip allows the light to be attached to a hat, shirt or a seat belt so the light can […]
Green hangar opens at BUR
Shangri-La Industries recently unveiled its inaugural project: The world’s first aviation hangar to achieve Platinum certification under the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Rating System. Hangar 25 is located at the Bob Hope Airport (BUR) in Burbank, California “Hangar 25 represents the future of the commercial building industry as […]
December’s NAFI Master Instructors named
The National Association of Flight Instructors welcomed a new crop of Master Flight Instructors for December 2008. New Master Instructors are Pamela Stafford of Olathe, Kans., Theodore Alexander “Ted” Matthews of Aurora, Colo., Jelica Matic of Kaneohe, Hawaii, Nicholas E. James of Portage, Mich. and Jameson R. Hilliard of Lincoln, Neb. Renewing Masters are Joel […]
Astronaut Peggy Whitson to speak at WAI conference
Astronaut Peggy Whitson, called NASA’s most experienced astronaut, will be a keynote speaker at the 20th Annual Women in Aviation Conference, to be held in Atlanta in February. Whitson, a biochemistry researcher, had her first space mission in 2002, including an extended stay aboard the the International Space Station. In 2007, she became the first […]
Roscoe Morton earns Wright Brothers Master Pilot Award
Roscoe Morton, widely known as the chief announcer at Sun ‘n Fun and EAA AirVenture air show events, received the Wright Brothers Master Pilot Award on Dec. 13. The Wright Brothers Master Pilot Award is a nationally sanctioned FAA award for active senior pilots. Named for Orville and Wilbur Wright, it recognizes a lifetime of […]
AOPA aims 2009 Sweepstakes at pilots…and non-pilots
The Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association is heading in a completely new direction with its 2009 Let’s Go Flying! sweepstakes. For the past 18 years, the AOPA Sweepstakes has showcased what you can do to an airplane, as the Association bought and completely refurbished a used aircraft before awarding the end result to the sweepstakes […]