The Colorado Aviation Business Association (CABA) and the Colorado Division of Aeronautics announced the release of Governor John Hickenlooper’s Proclamation declaring June 2016 to be General Aviation Appreciation Month. For the sixth consecutive year, Governor Hickenlooper has honored aviation as a vital pillar of the state’s economy, supporting 265,700 jobs with a combined annual payroll […]
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Bell Helicopter and Air Methods Celebrate Historic Bell 407GXP Delivery
Bell Helicopter has announced the delivery of the Bell 407GXP configured for Helicopter Emergency Medical Services to Air Methods. As revealed in March 2015, this is the first of many Bell 407GXPs expected over the next ten years. Bell Helicopter and Air Methods commemorated the delivery at a special ceremony at Air Methods headquarters in […]
Sanborn Commercial Drone Services in Full Swing
Sanborn Map Company, Inc. announced that several of its seasoned pilots have completed extensive unmanned aircraft system (UAS) training and now are qualified to perform commercial flights with the firm’s UAS. Earlier in 2015, the FAA granted Sanborn a Section 333 Exemption to commercially operate a UAS. “Our pilots are among the nation’s most skilled at […]
COLORADO SELECTS AOPA REGIONAL MANAGER AS NEW AVIATION DIVISION DIRECTOR
The Colorado Department of Transportation’s (CDOT) Division of Aeronautics and the Colorado Aeronautical Board has named David Ulane as the organization’s new Aeronautics Director. Ulane is a Metropolitan State University of Denver Aviation and Aerospace Science Program graduate and a licensed general aviation pilot, bringing with him over 25 years of professional aviation knowledge and […]
Granby Airport Pioneers Wall of Fame To Be Unveiled
On Thursday, November 20, 2014, the Friends of the Granby Airport, Inc. will unveil the Granby Airport Pioneers Wall of Fame. A ribbon-cutting ceremony will be held inside the former airline terminal at 4:00 p.m. on that day. The public is invited to attend. The Granby Airport Pioneers Hall of ‘Fame recognizes volunteers who gave […]
Sederberg Becomes CDOT’s New Multimedia Manager
Division of Aeronautics employee, Shahn Sederberg recently accepted a position as a Communications/Multimedia Manager with the Colorado Department of Transportation’s (CDOT) Communications Office. Sederberg, who has been a consistent contributor to the State Aviation Journal, began working for the Division of Aeronautics in 2001 as an Aviation Planner, and later as the Division’s Communications Specialist. […]
SAJ Writer Contributes to New International Book on Gender Issues in Aviation
Eighty two years after Amelia Earhart flew her bright red Lockheed Vega across the Atlantic from Harbor Grace Newfoundland to Culmore, Ireland, gender in aviation is still being discussed. State Aviation Journal (SAJ) writer, Penny Rafferty Hamilton, was asked two years ago to contribute a chapter of lessons and strategies revealed through the Teaching Women […]
Colorado Women’s Hall of Fame Inducts Penny Hamilton
Penny R. Hamilton, Ph.D. was inducted into the Colorado Women’s Hall of Fame on March 20th, joining two other Grand County, Colorado laureates: Emily Howell Warner, long-time Grand County resident and the nation’s first woman airline pilot to be hired by a major, scheduled airline, and the first woman to become an airline captain, and […]
Former AOPA Regional Rep. to be inducted into Oklahoma Journalism Hall of Fame
According to Dr. Terry Clark, the executive director of the Oklahoma Journalism Hall of Fame, William A. Hamilton, Ph.D., will be inducted into the Oklahoma Journalism Hall of Fame during a ceremony on April 24, 2014, at the University of Central Oklahoma in Edmond, Oklahoma. The citation that will be displayed in the Hall, along […]
SAJ Contributor Seeks Colorado Sky Star Nominations
In honor of Women’s History Month, writer, Dr. Penny Rafferty Hamilton, has launched research for a new history book called Colorado Sky Stars: Trailblazing Women in Aviation & Aerospace. Colorado Sky Stars will document the contributions of women of aviation and aerospace in and from Colorado from the early years to contemporary female leaders in […]
