By BILL WALKER A growing list of improvements, a reputation for pilot friendly service, and competitive fuel prices are helping to make South Carolina’s Marion County Airport (MAO) a popular stopover for East Coast flyers. Airport manager Margaret Pittman notes the air field is in the second phase of a $500,000 project to upgrade infrastructure […]
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CP Aviation named Santa Paula Business of the Year
The Chamber of Commerce for the City of Santa Paula, Calif., recently named CP Aviation, Inc. its 2011 Business of the Year. Presented annually since 1983, CP Aviation is only the second airport business in Santa Paula to receive such recognition. The flight school will be honored at an awards luncheon on Feb. 7. Started […]
Calhoun Air Center celebrates 2011, looks ahead to 2012
The folks at Calhoun Air Center at Calhoun County Airport (PKV) in Texas, have put together a video looking back at the great progress made at the airport and business in 2011. Company officials say: “The airport improvements that began in 2010 were completed during the first part of this year and included our apron […]
Long Island FBO bought by Hawthorne Global
Hawthorne Global Aviation Services has acquired ExcelAire, LLC, an FBO, aircraft charter and management company based at MacArthur Airport (ISP) in Ronkonkoma, New York. ExcelAire is a provider of general aviation services at MacArthur Airport and has a strong market share of fuel uplift, 20 large cabin aircraft under management through its Part 135 Charter […]
Airport hopes to attract tenants with rebate program
Lexington, NC – The Davidson County Airport Authority is offering a new fuel rebate to tenants at the Davidson County Airport. The program will be tracked by the airport’s FBO operator, Fly High Lexington and is based on annual fuel consumption. “Basically the more fuel a base tenant pumps during the year, the higher the […]
Transportation Trust Fund fact sheets
The Airport and Airway Trust Fund (AATF) is not the only trust fund facing current and future financial challenges. Taxpayers for Common Sense has created a fact sheet regarding the AATF as well as the Highway, Inland Waterway and Harbor Maintenance trust funds. Read it here.
Armstrong appointed director at NY society
Bayport, NY – The Bayport Aerodrome Society (which operates the Bayport Aerodrome Museum) has appointed William T. Armstrong as Membership Director on the Societies Board of Directors. The Bayport Aerodrome Society (BAS) is dedicated to the preservation and heritage of Long Island aviation. Bill Armstrong is a native of Long Island with ties to the […]
Idaho general aviation trade show slated
Aero Mark, an FBO in Idaho Falls, Idaho (IDA) will be hosting the 2nd annual Trade Show Aviation Idaho on Friday and Saturday May 18-19, 2012. The trade show, run in conjunction with the Idaho Aviation Association’s Annual Conference & Convention, will feature new aircraft, maintenance and avionics, aviation clubs and associations, and all other […]
New chair of aerospace engineering Named at Embry-Riddle
As Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University prepares to offer its first Ph.D. program in Aerospace Engineering, the school has appointed Anastasios (Tasos) Lyrintzis as professor and chair of the Aerospace Engineering Department at the Daytona Beach campus, starting spring semester 2012. Lyrintzis comes to Embry-Riddle from Purdue University’s School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, where he was a […]