Amelia Rose Earhart will open the 2014 Kansas Aviation Expo with stories of her recent round the world adventure, symbolically completing her namesake’s flight from 1937. Included is a cocktail and hors d’oeuvres reception that will take place in the Commons area of NCAT from 5:00pm to 6:00pm with Amelia’s presentation from 6:00pm to 7pm. […]
Hawaiian Airlines pioneers SwiftBroadband for safety services
Hawaiian Airlines, the largest and longest serving airline for Hawaii, and Inmarsat, the leading provider of global mobile satellite communications services, announce recently that Hawaiian Airlines will become the first commercial airline to install SwiftBroadband for flight deck applications, including Safety Services on its Boeing 767-300s. Hawaiian Airlines will use Inmarsat’s SwiftBroadband Safety for ACARS […]
California, Georgia Teachers Win SAFE 2014 Aviation Education Grants
Two classroom teachers, Sonya Williams and Joseph Perrotta, last week were named recipients of the 2014 K-12 Classroom Teacher Grant Awards from the Society of Aviation and Flight Educators (SAFE). The $250.00 grants to encourage aviation and aerospace lesson plans and aviation student projects in classrooms have been awarded by SAFE since 2013. The awards […]
Iowa Transportation Commission approves fiscal year 2015 State Aviation Program
The Iowa Transportation Commission approved approximately $4.6 million for the fiscal year 2015 State Aviation Program, which includes several subprograms detailed below. The Airport Improvement Program (AIP) will fund $2.4 million for aviation safety, planning and airport development projects at 21 airports throughout Iowa. Projects funded through the AIP include maintenance of aviation weather systems; […]
Sixel Consulting Group Adds Gerald as Airport Marketing Services Manager
Sixel Consulting Group, one of the nation’s leading air service development and marketing firms, has hired Jeremiah Gerald as a Marketing and Regional Development Manager. Gerald will be responsible for developing strategic marketing initiatives and community outreach programs, with a primary focus on airports in the South. “Sixel continues to expand its team in order […]
$6.7 MILLION SETTLEMENT ISSUED FOR UNMARKED MET TOWER RESULTING IN AG PILOT’S DEATH
A settlement was reached last week on the wrongful death action filed by the family of California agricultural aviator Steve Allen in the amount $6.7 million against a group of defendants representing tower manufacturing, wind energy, land-owning and farming interests for not marking or making aware the location of an unmarked meteorological evaluation tower (MET) […]
New Site Adds Airport Runway as Option for Drone Test Flights at Lone Star Unmanned Aircraft Systems Center
The Lone Star Unmanned Aircraft Systems Center at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi now has an airport and runway in its approved flight ranges. The Federal Aviation Administration recently approved a new range to test and fly unmanned aircraft that includes the Port Mansfield airport. The center, located in Corpus Christi, is one of only six […]
ARC Finds Varied Airline Seat Capacity Across Small Market Airports
The Airlines Reporting Corporation (ARC) announced last week that it has released a study about the changes to airline capacity at airports serving smaller markets within the United States. The report looked at 411 airports with at least 2,500 annual passenger boardings, with no one airport accounting for more than 0.25 percent of the total […]
FAA Awards Environmental Grant to South Bend
U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx today announced a $2 million Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) grant to South Bend International Airport to reduce emissions and improve air quality by installing a geothermal heating and cooling system at the airport through the FAA’s Voluntary Airport Low Emission (VALE) program. VALE is designed to reduce sources of airport […]
Fuels Selected for Testing to Remove Lead from Avgas – Industry Recognizes Milestone
The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced last week it has selected four unleaded fuels for the first phase of testing at the FAA’s William J. Hughes Technical Center. The goal is for government and industry to work together to have a new unleaded fuel that reduces lead emissions for general aviation […]
