BuildAPlane has joined with the Thomas Wathen Center in Riverside, California, to create a permanent facility that allows kids to build real airplanes. The Katrina Bradshaw Memorial BuildAPlane Center is outfitted as a complete A&P facility providing tooling and materials to build and restore aircraft. In the latest project, 16 kids from around Los Angeles […]
Airport
Volunteers help reopen L88 runway
Volunteers from Tehachapi, Bakersfield, Santa Maria and Shafter in California worked hard this past Saturday to assist the airport owner re-open the runway in New Cuyama, California. The group of 20 pilots and aviation enthusiasts were brought together by a common theme: Roll up your sleeves and help save an airport. The airport remains on the Los Angeles […]
SMO to be on November ballot
The Los Angeles County Registrar of Voters has ruled that the residents of the city of Santa Monica can vote Nov. 16 on an initiative requiring a vote from residents before the city can make any changes to land uses at Santa Monica Municipal Airport (SMO). According to a post at AOPA.org, nearly 16,000 Santa […]
Saving Ocean Ridge Airport
In the 1930s when Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney needed to raise money, they found themselves a barn, got the gang together and put on a show. These days fundraising is done online through crowdsourcing, where lots of people donate whatever they can. In Gualala, Calif., the owners of Ocean Ridge Airport (E55) have turned […]
John Wayne Airport prepares to change runway designations
SANTA ANA, Calif. – For nearly half a century, John Wayne Airport (JWA) has operated two runways, a commercial runway – one left and one nine right (1L-19R) — and a general aviation runway – one right and one nine left (1R-19L). Runways can be used in both directions, and therefore have opposite 180° headings at each end […]
Giles elected chairman of Greenville Airport Commission
Jonathan P. Giles (pictured) has been elected chairman of the Greenville Airport Commission (GAC), owner and operator of the Greenville Downtown Airport (GMU) in South Carolina, while Jim Wall has been elected vice chairman of the commission. GMU is the busiest general aviation airport in South Carolina and is a self-sufficient entity with financial strength that doesn’t […]
Complaint filed to keep Santa Monica Airport open
The Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA) has joined with aviation businesses, other GA organizations and individuals in a complaint filed with the FAA July 2 to ensure that Santa Monica Airport (SMO) remains open after 2015. In a “Part 16” filing with the FAA, AOPA and nine other parties, including Actor Harrison Ford – […]
24-hour fuel service now available at Alaska’s McGrath Airport
Crowley’s Alaska fuel sales and distribution group has unveiled McGrath Airport’s first aviation fuel card lock system, offering pilots the convenience of 24-hour refueling services at one of the region’s busiest airfields. The implementation of the new, fully automated system means that aviators can access fuel pumps with the swipe of a credit card or […]
Upgrades planned at Knoxville Airport
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — The Knoxville area will see no disruption of flights at the McGhee Tyson Airport (TYS), even as a six-year, $108 million airport modernization program is embarked upon, the most extensive project in the airport’s history, according to airport officials. Plans call for one of the airport’s two runways to be open at all […]