TAMPA, Fla. (Nov. 5, 2009) — At the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA) Summit today, the Lindbergh Foundation announced that its efforts to facilitate the donation of a Factory-new 180HP A1C Husky to the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) have been accomplished.

For six years, highly acclaimed aerobatic pilot and environmentalist Patty Wagstaff has helped the KWS pilots to become safer pilots, by teaching them aerobatic and maneuvering skills that are useful when helping to seek out elephant poachers in the Game Reserve.   

BALTIMORE, MD. – Belfort Instrument Company, a manufacturer of Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) certified Automated Weather Observation System (AWOS AV) and GCR & Associates, a provider of aviation , professional, and technical services, have teamed together to post an airport’s real-time weather data on GCR’s FAA 5010 page.

The 37th Copperstate Regional Fly-In is under way today through October 24 at Casa Grande Airport, Arizona. See all types of recreational aviation - homebuilts, powered parachutes, ultralights, light-sport

J. Randolph Babbitt, Orlando, FL
October 21, 2009
NBAA

Remarks as prepared for delivery.

Good morning, and thank you, Ed [Bolen], for the invitation.

I just got back from Osaka and Beijing on Friday, and for good measure threw in a 24-hour trip to and from Las Vegas to speak to some FAA managers yesterday. What I’m saying is that I’ve had a lot of time — about 44 hours just on airplanes during the last nine days — to think about NBAA and what to say to NBAA. I’d like to make two pitches:  one for SMS, the second for professionalism.

October 2009 – NBAA, Orlando, FL -- Conklin & de Decker in association with the National Business Aviation Association (NBAA), announced the second annual Alan H. Conklin Business Aviation Management scholarship winner is Charles “Barrett” Roy. This award will be presented at the 2009 NBAA Annual Meeting and Convention in Orlando, Florida.