DENVER — Mountain Aviation recently celebrated 20 years of service to the Denver and Rocky Mountain region community. Along the way it has picked up a trophy cabinet of awards for safety and best practices. From small beginnings it has grown to become a ARGUS Platinum safety-certified air charter and aircraft management business, with a […]
Business Aviation
Harrison Ford to receive humanitarian award at NBAA2013
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) will present actor and pilot Harrison Ford with the NBAA’s Al Ueltschi Award for Humanitarian Leadership at the Opening General Session of the association’s 2013 Business Aviation Convention & Exhibition (NBAA2013) in Las Vegas on Oct. 22. In addition to his work as an outspoken champion […]
Build A Plane to present Teachers Day at NBAA
For the first time, the National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) will host a Build A Plane Teachers’ Day, sponsored by Honeywell Aerospace, in conjunction with the annual “Careers in Business Aviation Day,” held each year at NBAA’s Business Aviation Convention & Exhibition (NBAA2013), which takes place this year in Las Vegas. NBAA and Build A […]
Stanton Sport Aviation signs on as Flight Design distributor
South Woodstock, CONN. – Stanton, Minn.-based Stanton Sport Aviation, led my Kent Johnson, was recently elevated to Distributor status with Flight Design USA. “We are very pleased to appoint Stanton Sport Aviation as the distributor for a territory including Minnesota, Wisconsin, North Dakota, and South Dakota,” said Flight Design USA president Tom Peghiny. “In our years of […]
Bizav veterans acquire Kansas Aircraft Corp.
NEW CENTURY, Kan. — Business aviation veterans Tim and Dianne White have acquired Kansas Aircraft Corp., an aviation sales and consulting firm headquartered at the New Century Air Center (IXD) in the Kansas City area. Kansas Aircraft Corporation was founded in 1990 by Michele Stauffer, who will remain active in the business following the acquisition. […]
GA in action: Reuniting a wounded soldier with his family
NORTH WILKESBORO, N.C. — Window World, Inc., a replacement window and home remodeling company, recently used its corporate jet to sponsor a mission through the Veterans Airlift Command (VAC) to bring injured Army SSG Oliver Hughes and his family from San Antonio, Texas, to Asheville, N.C. Hughes has been recovering at the Center for the […]
Overhauling, and more, for 35 years
TULSA, Okla. – Aircraft Specialties Services is celebrating 35 years in business in 2013. Founded in December 1978 Aircraft Specialties Services started with a single Storm-Vulcan cam grinding machine and the goal of supplying reconditioned cams to local engine overhaul shops around the Tulsa airport. Word spread that the company was providing high quality work at a […]
Jet Professionals celebrates 30th anniversary
TETERBORO, N.J. — Jet Professionals, a global aviation staffing company, is celebrating its 30th year in business. The aviation staffing company began as a two-person company in Shelton, Conn., created by a pilot and his colleague who saw the need for crew member staffing in 1983. Jet Aviation acquired the organization in 1996, moving its […]
Aviation Business & Career Forum added to NW Aviation Conf.
PUYALLUP, Wash – The Northwest Aviation Conference is expanding to include a day for business and career sessions. Teaming with Pierce County Airport, Horizon Air, Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association, Workforce Central, General Aviation News, Seaplane Pilots Assoc., King County Airport, Washington State Department of Transportation, Joint Base Lewis-McChord, FAA, Professional Aviation Safety Specialists (PASS) and a multitude […]