Commander Premier Aircraft Corporation (CPAC), a newly formed company that bought the assets of the bankrupt Commander Aircraft Co., is setting up operations in Cape Girardeau, Mo. Please share: Continue Reading →

When you were in high school, were you one of those kids who preferred to draw airplanes rather than read a textbook? Although you may have earned detention for that, students at the newly created Wathen Aviation High School in... Continue Reading →

Western Michigan University’s College of Aviation, located in Battle Creek, Mich., will replace its entire fleet of Cessna 172s with SR20s and SR22s from Cirrus Design Corp. As part of a 10-year lease agreement, WMU will eventually take delivery of... Continue Reading →

Diamond Aircraft has delivered its 1000th North American built airplane, a DA40-180 Diamond Star, to Premier Aircraft Sales of Florida. The company has delivered 261 DA20s and DA40s so far this year. With deliveries of the recently certified DA42 TwinStar... Continue Reading →

Seawind, Inc. had record sales at this year’s EAA Oshkosh. The 16 airplanes sold bring the total of soon-to-be certified production aircraft orders to 46, with first deliveries scheduled for the first quarter of 2006. Continue Reading →

Four airports in Texas and Louisiana that were damaged by Hurricanes Rita and Katrina will receive more than $16 million as the first installment of federal funds to pay for repairs, according to Secretary of Transportation Norman Y. Mineta. Louisiana’s... Continue Reading →

Lockheed Martin assumed operation of 58 Automated Flight Service Stations (AFSS) Oct. 4, following an eight-month phase-in period that began Feb. 1, when the company was awarded a $1.7 billion contract. More than 1,750 former FAA employees now work for... Continue Reading →

If you live in Southern California and are a fan of motor racing, you’ve probably been to the Cajon Speedway near Gillespie Field (SEE) in San Diego. Soon the land that held the race track will be replaced by hangars... Continue Reading →

FlightSafety International has been tapped by Cessna to provide training for the new Mustang jet — not a big surprise since FlightSafety has been Cessna’s official training organization since 1977. Training will begin at FlightSafety’s Cessna Learning Center in Wichita... Continue Reading →

Corporate hangar space is so hard to find in the San Francisco Bay Area that even before the ink was dry on permits for a hangar construction project at Hayward Executive Airport (HWD), almost half of it had been spoken... Continue Reading →