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Three Military Airports to add Civilian Operations

Three military airports have been selected by the FAA to become eligible for grants to add civilian air operations. The airports selected are either former or current military airfields. They are: Kelly Field in San Antonio, Texas (KSKF), a joint-use general aviation airport, will participate in the program for five years. Mobile Downtown Airport in […]

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FAA Awards $479.1M For Sustainable Airport Projects

Federal transportation officials have awarded $479.1 million in grants for more than 100 sustainable infrastructure and safety projects at U.S. airports, the FAA announced Tuesday. Grants were awarded for 123 airport projects in all 50 states, as well as Puerto Rico and American Samoa for projects that bolster airport accessibility, sustainability and workforce. Some of […]

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FAA Awards More Improvement Grants to Airports

Dozens of U.S. airports will receive nearly $432 million in federal grants to offset the cost of safety and environmental projects, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced. Some of the projects slated for funding at 60 airports include: New general aviation parking areas Zero-emission passenger shuttle buses Runway replacement and taxiway extension and repair The […]

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Passport, Please

Back in the early ‘90s, Honda ran an ad for its redesigned Prelude. It showed a bright red model against a city skyline with the caption “You’ll never have your pizza delivered again.” The implication was that with a fun enough vehicle, we will look for any excuse to get out and enjoy it. As […]

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Stranded in Chicago?

I didn’t know who McPherson was, but I knew I hated him. There, scrawled into the schedule, smack dab in the middle of the weekend I had planned for a flying vacation, was a two-hour block of time during which he had reserved the flying club’s Cessna 172. I thought I had planned far enough […]

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Pilots Share Their 9/11 Stories

Captain Beverley Bass will never forget that moment, 20 years ago. She was piloting American Airlines Flight 49 from Paris to Dallas over the North Atlantic when the news came across an air-to-air frequency: Airplanes had hit each of twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City in a terrorist attack. Soon […]

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A Case Study: Why Investment in Airports Remains a Challenge

It’s a question that aircraft owners and airport-based businesses have been asking for decades—why are there inevitably long waiting lists for hangar rental at just about every GA airport in the country? And it’s a question that Flying’s owner and CEO Craig Fuller posed in a recent post—with the suggestion that the situation was ripe […]

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