There’s a new airport in the Houston area. Houston Executive Airport (78T) commenced operations earlier this month. Businessman and avid pilot Ron Henriksen built the airport with private funds. It is on the west side of the city and designed to give the business aviation community an alternative to the area’s crowded commercial airports. “This […]
Direct-To Avionics closes
Chelton Flight Systems of Boise, Idaho, has come to the rescue of customers who were left in a lurch by the sudden closure of Direct-To Avionics. The Bend, Ore.-based company abruptly closed its doors in December. Direct-To Avionics was a distributor of systems for kit-built aircraft. Among the components supplied were those for Chelton Flight […]
Teens vandalize airplanes at Northern Caliornia airport
Four teenage girls in Garberville, Calif., are facing criminal charges and several hours of community service after allegedly trespassing onto a general aviation airport and vandalizing at least five aircraft. “Exactly when the damage happened isn’t clear,” said Brenda Godsey, public information officer for the Humboldt County Sheriff’s office. “We were made aware of it […]
Iowa City Airport’s historic hangar preserved in the virtual world
If you can’t save a piece of history in the real world, save it in the virtual world. That’s what was done to the Boeing/United Airlines Hangar that for the past 77 years has graced Iowa City Municipal Airport (IOW) in Iowa. The hangar is slated for demolition to make room for a runway safety […]
Relive the Golden Age of Aviation: You, too, can be a barnstormer-or just fly with one
There are pilots who refer to their vintage aircraft as time machines. You climb inside the cockpit, start it up and the years melt away. You can almost imagine yourself back in the Golden Age of aviation when pilots in open cockpit airplanes flew across the country landing in farmers’ fields to give rides to […]
Ready for takeoff again: Louisisana Fly-In Series recovers from hurricanes Katrina and Rita
The one thing you can’t control when you plan a fly-in is the weather. The Experimental Aircraft Association chapters in Louisiana know this well after the hurricane season of 2005. Communities and airports throughout the state were devastated by hurricanes Katrina and Rita but, as the state has recovered, so has the Louisiana EAA Fly-In […]
Cessna: The next 80 years
“Not many companies can say that they have been in business for 80 years, especially not many aviation companies,” noted Cessna President and CEO Jack Pelton when we sat down with him at EAA AirVenture in 2006. “But Cessna can. 2007 is our 80th anniversary.” Pelton then quickly noted that the company has been marking […]
More seminars, exhibitors planned for this year’s Northwest Aviation Conference
The 2007 Northwest Aviation Conference & Trade Show takes place Feb. 24-25 at the Western Washington Fairgrounds in Puyallup, Wash. The event, sponsored by the Washington Aviation Association, is a showcase for all things aviation in the Pacific Northwest. If you need a part for your airplane, are shopping for avionics, or have questions about […]
Taylorcraft locked out: Bounced rent check is last chance for beleaguered company
A bounced rent check prompted the city of Brownsville, Texas, to put a lock and chains on the fence around the headquarters of Taylorcraft Aviation LLC, effectively closing down the business. According to Brownsville City Manager Charlie Cabler, Harry Ingram, president and owner of Taylorcraft, which rents a city-owned hangar at Brownsville/South Padre Island International […]