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The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which represents more than 3 million businesses, says solving workforce shortages, sustainability, safety, and security are among the biggest challenges facing the aviation industry.

With hangar space at a deficit in the Northeast, Clay Lacy Aviation and Atlantic Aviation seize the opportunity to grow their facilities at KOXC in Oxford, Connecticut.

Editor’s note: The following article is not intended to be a ranking, but is only to serve as a list of possible options. As the saying goes, your mileage may vary. A low time cargo pilot job is a job transporting goods or freight for pilots who have a low number of flight hours, usually […]

Social media was abuzz over the weekend after a 26-year-old unidentified man was found alive after flying from Guatemala (MGGT) to Miami International Airport (KMIA) in the wheel well of a Boeing 737-800. 

“You don’t know how other people live,” my brother said. He was not technically correct. We do know how other people live; we just don’t live that way. We were not exactly sure what he meant. There are a lot of things we don’t do like other people do—for instance, we certainly aren’t stylish dressers. […]

Learning to fly is still one of the greatest adventures, even in this modern high-tech digital era. And the first solo is for most pilots the most memorable flight. I was so euphoric when my instructor climbed out of the Aeronca 7AC and told me to take it once around the pattern that I forgot […]

No realm of piloting provides more career opportunities than government, or public service, flying. The Armed Forces, federal agencies, state aeronautics divisions and aviation departments, and county and municipal authorities employ pilots to operate what is by all accounts the world’s largest fleet of fixed- and rotor-wing aircraft and remotely piloted aerial vehicles. The numbers […]

When American Aero opened its new FBO at the City of Fort Worth’s Meacham International airport a few months back, the idea of a public/private partnership seemed intriguing because those kinds of success stories are few. But calling the new facility a next generation FBO to boot seemed too enticing to ignore, especially since I […]

A longtime pilot and savvy airplane broker at Lunken Airport named Jerry Swart used to say, “Sooner or later, every crook ends up at the airport.” When you think about it, airports do seem to be a magnet for an array of colorfully shady characters — maybe more so in the days before the “benefits” […]

“I’m going to ask for 380 and another shortcut,” says Greg, sitting to my right and pointing to the CJ3’s MFD, which shows an arrival time of 16:19 Zulu. We are about three-quarters of the way down the East Coast en route from White Plains, New York, to Boca Raton, Florida, and we have a […]