Most of the industry knows there’s a serious shortage of pilots, mechanics, dispatchers, even air traffic controllers. But Salt Lake City-based Aviation Business Consultants also sees that shortage in their own sector, aviation marketing. Trying to bring fresh new minds to the community that focuses on selling the products and services the industry produces, ABCI […]
Textron Aviation has added a subsidiary in Canada to increase the support of its growing fleet of aircraft. Textron Aviation Canada will bring service to the area with a direct connection to the parent company, just as the Textron Aviation global service network has done. As part of the establishment of Textron Aviation Canada, the […]
Spend a few years as a pilot and aircraft checkouts become second nature, those hours spent with an instructor to learn the ins and outs of a new machine so you can head off toward that next dramatic destination on your own. Every once in a while though the act itself of checking out becomes […]
The B-29 Doc Hangar and Education Center at the Wichita Eisenhower National Airport (ICT) is nearly complete. Doc’s friends showed off the 32,000 square foot facility in a recently released video and the organization is expected to take possession in early November, when the maintenance crew will begin the winter maintenance operations for the recently […]
Take Flight Aviation, a flight-training provider based in Montgomery, New York, that operates a fleet of Diamond Aircraft piston singles and twins, has been named by AOPA as Best Flight School in the Nation for 2018. Take Flight Aviation was honored for providing a high level of service to its customers based on responses to […]
If you have ever seen Sean D. Tucker’s intense aerobatic act, which the ultra-high-energy aerobatic pilot somehow narrates while pulling a whole bunch of Gs, it is an experience you will likely never forget. If you never saw the small, highly modified, bright orange, Oracle-branded Pitts biplane turn corkscrews in the sky, this weekend was […]
SIMCOM holdings Inc. will soon join Directional Aviation’s family of private business aviation companies that include Flexjet, Sentient Jet and Flight Options. The deal, announced last week between Directional and SIMCOM’s current owner J.W. Childs Associates, is expected to close by next month and is subject to the satisfaction of customary closing conditions. No financial […]
A Piper Warrior II made a successful emergency landing Friday in the westbound lanes of Interstate 8 just a few miles southeast of Gillespie Field in El Cajon California. Twenty-five-year-old flight instructor, Ryan Muno and his student were aboard when the engine quit, according to NBC 7.. As the pilot in command, Muno assumed control […]
Sandel Avionics is continuing testing of its Avilon integrated flight deck, created as a lower-priced alternative for the King Air retrofit market, as the company reports certification and initially deliveries are on pace for early next year. Flying had the chance to see the latest version of Avilon at the NBAA Convention in Orlando, Florida, […]
The Supermarine Spitfire was one of the British Royal Air Force’s most notorious fighters in World War II and has, along with the North American P-51 Mustang, become one of the biggest favorites of warbird enthusiasts. A documentary about the famed warbird was released earlier this year, screened first on July 9 at the Curzon […]
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