ATP Flight School is set to unveil its newest airline pilot training center on Friday, April 29, at Page Field (FMY) in Fort Myers, FL. Up to 200 aspiring airline pilots will join ATP during an open house, previewing the recently constructed 19,000 square-foot facility. To celebrate the opening of the new training center and […]
Month: April 2022
Aero Club of New England to Present 2022 Cabot Award to NASA Mars Helicopter Ingenuity Team
The Aero Club of New England (ACONE) will present the 2022 Godfrey L. Cabot Award to the NASA Mars Helicopter Ingenuity Team in Boston, MA on June 24, 2022. The Ingenuity Team will be honored with the prestigious Cabot Award in recognition of their history making flight of April 19, 2021, when Ingenuity became the […]
Natilus Expanding at San Diego’s Brown Field as Construction Begins on Autonomous Cargo Aircraft
Natilus, a U.S. company producing the world’s first purposefully designed and manufactured autonomous aircraft for air freight transport, has announced its expansion to Brown Field to host engineering and manufacturing facilities for the Natilus family of aircraft. The Brown Field facility includes a 12,000 square-foot hangar for prototype final assembly, structural testing, systems’ integration and […]
Supernal and Urban-Air Port Debut World’s First Functional Advanced Air Mobility Vertiport
Supernal and Urban-Air Port today announced the debut of Air-One® – Urban-Air Port’s proprietary deployable operations hub for manned and unmanned vehicles – marking the first functional multi-modal infrastructure hub equipped to handle future electric air travel. The vertiport is open for public visitation in Coventry, U.K., and will be redeployed in additional cities worldwide […]
Zipline Takes Off in Japan
An archipelago of 140 islands in Japan is home to nearly 75,000. As of today, it’s also another home for Zipline’s transformative instant logistics system. In 2018, Zipline developed a partnership with Toyota Tsusho, a part of the Toyota Group that operates in 120 countries around the world. Toyota Tsusho is a nearly 100-year-old subsidiary […]
MSP Airport Approved for Next Phase of Noise Mitigation Program
Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport (MSP) is extending the duration of its noise mitigation program, one of the most unique and comprehensive in the United States. The next phase of MSP’s Noise Mitigation Program will extend eight years, from 2025-2032, providing noise reducing modifications to program-eligible houses and apartments. Since the first phase of the program […]
Phoenix City Council OKs Airport Project Funded in Bipartisan Infrastructure Law
Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport is home to the first City of Phoenix project to benefit from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law passed late last year by Congress, starting with construction of a long-awaited cross-field taxiway connecting the north and south airfields. The taxiway project was approved April 20th by the Phoenix City Council. Estimated to […]
FAA Approves ALSIM AL40 Simulator as Advanced Aviation Training Device (AATD)
ALSIM has announced that the FAA has approved the ALSIM AL40 simulator as an Advanced Aviation Training Device (AATD). The AL40 is an exact replica of a new Diamond DA40 NG aircraft equipped with a real Garmin G1000® NXi avionics suite. In the United States, ALSIM’s AL40 is currently operated by the Aspen Flight Academy […]
Massachusetts DOT Officials Impressed During Three-Airport Visit
Photo above – Chris Willenborg, Westfield Airport Manager, begins the three-airport tour by briefing Massachusetts DOT officials. More than a dozen top state DOT officials made a round-robin visit to three Massachusetts airports to get an up-close look at how the facilities are managed and the value they provide to the state’s citizens. The tour […]
Denton Enterprise Airport Recipient of Historic Investment
Photo above – Scott Gray, Airport & Facilities Director for the City of Denton, left, talks about the airport’s pavement with Acting FAA Administrator Billy Nolen. (Photo curtesy of FAA) During a visit to Denton Enterprise Airport, Acting FAA Administrator Billy Nolen highlighted funding coming the airport’s way as part of President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure […]
