History is an important part of most airports. You often find plaques telling of notable events at the airport. If Souther Field/Jimmy Carter Regional Airport (ACJ) in Americus, Georgia, was to create such a plaque, it would need a surface the size of the Green Monster, the high left field wall at Fenway Park in […]
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Big changes in store at KBFI
2015 will be a year of change at King County International Airport/Boeing Field in Seattle as Landmark Aviation begins redeveloping its recently acquired property on the east side of the field. One of the first buildings to go is the 3,600-square-foot structure that housed The Aviator’s Store, a pilot supply and gift company. For the […]
FAA awards $10.2 million in environmental grants to airports
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx recently awarded $10.2 million in FAA grants to six airports around the country to reduce emissions and improve air quality through the FAA’s Voluntary Airport Low Emission (VALE) program. VALE is designed to reduce all sources of airport ground emissions in areas of marginal air quality, FAA […]
M11 celebrates new runway with Nov. 1 Fly-In
COPIAH, Miss. – The first new runway constructed in more than a decade in the state of Mississippi will be unveiled at a celebratory ribbon cutting and fly-in at the Copiah County Airport (M11) on Saturday, Nov. 1 at 10 a.m. The new 4,000-foot runway, with runway lights and pilot navigational aids, replaces an outdated […]
Fire destroys hangars, airplanes at 1W1
A fire tore through a row of hangars at Grove Field (1W1) in Camas, Wash., Oct. 6, destroying several airplanes and vintage automobiles. When firefighters arrived at the airport — which is about 20 miles northeast of Portland, Ore. — at 10:24 p.m., they found the hangar doors and roofs had been blown off by […]
Group requests landing fee exemption for based aircraft at ISP
National Air Transportation Association (NATA) President and CEO Thomas L. Hendricks recently wrote to the Town of Islip, N.Y., requesting it drop recently imposed landing fees on based aircraft at Long Island MacArthur Airport (ISP). The town imposed landing fees on all aircraft effective Sept. 1, 2014, and for the first time made them applicable to […]
Flight activity picks up at ISM for NBAA
KISSIMMEE, Fla. — Officials at Kissimmee Gateway Airport (ISM) say they are expecting increased flight activity during the week of Oct. 19-24, in association with the National Business Aviation Association Convention. The convention is held every other year at the Orlando-Orange County Convention Center, and has the highest economic impact of any recurring convention in Orlando. […]
Soaring deer population poses threat for pilots
Soaring deer populations are nuisances for airports and threats to pilots and planes, according to a report from ABC News. From 1990 to 2013, there were 1,088 collisions between planes and deer, elk, moose and caribou, according to a recent joint report by the Federal Aviation Administration and the Agriculture Department. Most of the planes suffered […]
AOPA lobbies for more flexibility when it comes to hangars
The Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA) is pressing the FAA to offer pilots and aircraft owners more flexibility when it comes to the use of hangars at airports that have received federal funding. In formal comments filed Sept. 18, AOPA urges the FAA to expand its definition of “aeronautical use” and to give the […]