FARMINGDALE, N.Y. — Talon Air has completed its new FBO complex at Republic Airport (FRG) on Long Island. The FBO extends Talon Air’s existing services, providing additional customer amenities, including conference rooms, lounges, a flight planning center, helicopter transfer service, and the only FAA-approved Part 145 maintenance service center at Republic Airport, according to company officials. The new complex […]
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Mountain West Aviation expands to two new locations in Nevada
Mountain West Aviation, a family-owned and operated FBO headquartered in Lake Tahoe, Nevada, has selected EPIC as its fuel provider for its two new FBO locations in Nevada: At Carson City Airport (KCXP) and Elko Regional Airport (KEKO). EPIC is the existing fuel supplier for Mountain West Aviation’s FBO operations at the Lake Tahoe Airport (KTVL). […]
Construction begins on new FBO at YYZ
Epic and UVair have been selected to provide fuel and FBO network branding to The Aerospace Centre, a new, FBO at Toronto Pearson International Airport (YYZ) in Canada. Construction is underway on the new facility, which is expected to open in stages beginning in 2016, with full-operation expected in early 2017. The Aerospace Centre will be […]
Atlantic Aviation expands to Salt Lake City
Atlantic Aviation has expanded its nationwide network of FBOs to include a facility at Salt Lake City International Airport (SLC) in Utah. Atlantic expects to commence operations at SLC on Dec. 1, 2015. Atlantic plans to invest approximately $25.5 million in the development of a new general aviation terminal, additional hangars, a new fuel farm, […]
Stuart Jet Center breaks ground on new hangar
STUART, Florida — FBO Stuart Jet Center at Witham Field — recently named Florida’s General Aviation Airport of the Year by the Florida Department of Transportation — recently broke ground for its new hangar. To be completed in early 2016, the 24,000-square-foot hangar facility will complement the 250,000 square footage of existing hangar space, along with more […]
College students launch EasyFBO
Two college students want to revolutionize how you get fuel at an FBO. John Hill and Daniel Lehmer are the forces behind EasyFBO, a turnkey solution that makes it easy for all concerned — pilots, an FBO’s front desk personnel and the linemen — to handle fuel orders. The idea was born from Hill’s more […]
New GM for Leading Edge Jet Center
Leading Edge Jet Center at Redmond Airport in Oregon, has a new general manager: Phillipp Spitzer. Spitzer has 12 years of experience in general aviation, including five in managerial positions. He most recently was safety and training manager for TAC Air at Denver Centennial Airport, one of the five busiest general aviation airports in the country. Leading […]
Keeping firefighters supplied with fuel
EPIC Aviation, a fuel supplier to the general and commercial aviation industries, reports it has dispatched more than 2 million gallons of aviation fuel since the beginning of July to FBOs and fire bases supporting aerial firefighting operations in the Western United States. Aviation fuel and ground-support resources used in aerial firefighting operations have been in […]
Shelter begins work on new FBO and hangar at FRG
EAST FARMINGDALE, N.Y. — To mark the Sept. 1 enactment of the New York State sales-and-use tax exemption on general aviation transactions — which is expected to create enormous economic benefits for the state — Sheltair commenced the initial land clearing on what will soon become a new multimillion-dollar FBO terminal and aircraft hangar complex at Republic Airport […]