The Federal Aviation Administration updated its BasicMed regulations to allow pilots to operate larger aircraft and carry more passengers. The Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association applauded the expansion of BasicMed privileges included in the 2024 FAA Reauthorization Act of 2024 and in full effect as of November 12. Under the new law signed May 16, […]
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NBAA Fact Checks Misleading Report on Business Aviation Sustainability
The National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) has challenged a report for selectively using data, making statements based on faulty analysis and ignoring facts to produce a one-sided set of conclusions about sustainability and business aviation – an industry that is on pace to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. In a letter submitted to news […]
A4A and NATA Congratulate President-elect Trump and Vice President-elect Vance
Airlines for America (A4A) and the National Air Transportation Association (NATA) congratulated President-elect Donald J. Trump and Vice President-elect JD Vance on their election victory. “On behalf of our aviation business members, NATA congratulates President-elect Trump and Vice President-elect Vance on their elections to the White House. NATA looks forward to partnering with the new […]
ACSF Announces New Chairman and Vice-Chairman
The Air Charter Safety Foundation (ACSF) has announced the selection of Kent Stauffer, Vice President Safety for Flexjet, as its new ACSF Chairman and Michael Wootton, Director of Operations for Advanced Air, as ACSF Vice Chairman, effective January 1, 2025. Kent will succeed Todd Weeber, whose term expires the end of December 2024. Kent Stauffer […]
San Carolos Flight Center First Flight School to Operate Aircraft on Swift Fuel’s 100R
Photo above – Rabbit Aviation Services CEO Dan DeMeo adds Swift 100R fuel to a San Carlos Flight Center Cessna 172. San Carlos Flight Center (SCFC) has announced that they are now operating all of their Cessna 172 aircraft on Swift Fuels’ newly approved 100R unleaded aviation gasoline. As the first flight school in the […]
Nearly $12 Million in Grants to Help Small Communities Improve Air Service Announced
The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) announced that it will award $11.99 million from the Small Community Air Service Development Program to help 14 communities in 14 states develop their own solutions to local air service needs. These federal grants assist small communities across the country with maintaining and building air service options. “People in small communities […]
Parting Ways with Airplane Ownership
Photo above – After 24 years of owning and flying a Piper Archer, and before parting ways with aircraft ownership, Bo Bowman purchased this restored 1940 Luscombe 8C and became a “real pilot.” By Bo Bowman Geoffrey Chaucer is credited with originating the phrase “all good things must come to an end” in his […]
With New Rule, FAA is Ready for Air Travel of the Future
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is ready for powered lift, which will be the first completely new category of civil aircraft since helicopters were introduced in the 1940s. Powered lift operations include air taxis, cargo delivery and a variety of operations within urban and rural areas. The agency has issued a final rule for the […]
Lauretta Webb Named Chair, General Aviation Awards
The General Aviation Awards (GAA) Board of Directors has announced that effective October 1, 2024, Lauretta Webb became the Board Chair of the GAA Program. She succeeds long time, dedicated Board Chair, Sandya Narayanswami, who will remain on the Board as the Fundraising Director. Lauretta comes to GAA with a 32-year career in general aviation […]
NBAA Bestows Gold Wing Award to Kerry Lynch for Historical Look at GARA
The National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) has presented journalist Kerry Lynch with its Gold Wing Award for Journalism Excellence for her thorough historical reconstruction of the remarkable advocacy mobilization that won passage of the General Aviation Revitalization Act (GARA), the 1994 law that provided much-needed liability protection to the general aviation industry. Lynch wrote the […]
