General Aviation

It’s about mindset more than math.

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 […]

If you didn’t fly into KDCA—now Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport—before September 11, 2001, you’re still out of luck as a general aviation pilot. You’ll need to be crew on an airline flight, or obtain a special clearance, in order to land at the nation’s iconic airport on the banks of the Potomac River. That’s […]

The silence on the Potomac Approach frequency was stark. It was September 17, 2001, and I was flying a Piper Archer from KFDK in Frederick, Maryland, down to Newport News (KPHF), Virginia, logging two hours down and 1.7 on the return. I filed IFR on a day of shockingly blue skies because that was the […]

The General Aviation Manufacturers Association (GAMA) released its 2021 Q2 report, showing marked improvement over the same period in 2020. The turboprop and rotorcraft segments have made the largest year-over-year gains, with turboprops posting a 45.4 percent increase for the first six months of 2021 as compared to the same period last year. Total helicopter […]

The National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) has released its 2021 Business Aviation Fact Book as part of their “No Plane, No Gain” initiative. Like their previous Fact Book publications, the 2021 edition is a treasure trove of data, facts, and figures that paints a positive picture of business aviation as being much more than just […]

The FAA has awarded more than $766 million in grants aimed at building safer, more sustainable, and more accessible airports across the United States. The funding, the fifth round of FY 2021 Airport Improvement Program (AIP) grants, will pay for projects at 279 airports in 44 states, as well as projects in Guam, Puerto Rico, […]

The National Air and Space Museum is undergoing a massive multi-year renovation project that will see all 23 exhibitions being completely reimagined and the addition of new presentation spaces and attractions. The magnitude of the NASM project, started in 2018, is revealed in this detailed Flickr photo gallery. The NASM said the transformation of the […]

Carver Aero has expanded into the Chicago region with the acquisition of LumanAir, an FBO based at the Aurora Municipal Airport (KARR) in Illinois. The company adds to its network in Muscatine, Davenport, and Council Bluffs, Iowa, as well as Janesville, Wisconsin, supplying corporate and general aviation services including: Charter flights Pilot services Airplane maintenance […]

Broad Capital Acquisition, a blank-check company targeting the aviation and aerospace industry, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday for an initial public offering to raise up to $100 million. The Plano, Texas-based company, which was founded this year, intends to list as “BRACU” on the Nasdaq. It’s led by CEO and Director […]