BROOKLYN CENTER, MINN. – The Minnesota Aviation Trades Association (MATA) will focus its one-day conference, Monday, March 19, 2012, at the Earle Brown Heritage Center in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, on…
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Saving Lives… All In A Day’s Work!
Chicago’s lakefront was the start of it all. As a youngster, Joe Furman’s dad took him to see the Grumman Hellcats firing their 50 caliber machine guns into the lake…
Michigan Aviation High School To Expand
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. – An aviation-themed charter high school launched by businessman Dick DeVos in 2010 in Grand Rapids, Mich., is planning for as much as a $5 million expansion…
K-State Adds Five Aircraft To Fleet
SALINA, KAN. – The aviation program at Kansas State University’s Salina campus has added five new Cessna Skyhawk 172 G1000s to the university’s training fleet. K-State is an elite Top…
SIU Welcomes Five New Cessnas
CARBONDALE, ILL. – Southern Illinois University Aviation welcomed home five brand new Cessna 172R models on December 9, 2011, each equipped with Garmin G1000 glass panels. The aircraft arrived together…
UND Aerospace Donates Aviation Training Device To Bismarck Public Schools
BISMARCK, N.D. – The University of North Dakota John D. Odegard School of Aerospace Sciences has donated a Piper Seminole Flight Training Device (FTD) to the Bismarck Public Schools Career…
Veteran Aviator Honored By FAA With Wright Award
by Ed Leineweber There’s an old saying in aviation that goes, “There are old pilots, and there are bold pilots, but there are no old, bold pilots.” If “bold” is…
WWII Vet Savors Gift of Flight
by Brooke Miller Hall Before Jim Leonard could take the ride of his life, he needed to get in the plane. And that’s harder than it sounds. Jim is 90,…
Where The Cowboys Were Indians
by Jim Bildilli NASHVILLE, TENN. – At the National Association of State Aviation Officials’ (NASAO) 80th Anniversary Convention in Nashville, Tenn. in September 2011, there was a fascinating speaker by…
Canadian Fishing Fly-Out Group Holds Holidays Get-Together
MADISON, WIS. – Participants in the annual Canadian Fishing Fly-Out to Miminiska Lodge, Ontario, promoted by Midwest Flyer Magazine, got together for brunch at Pat O’Malley’s “Jet Room” airport restaurant…
Former EAA President Joins Corporate Board
CHICAGO, ILL. – Jet Support Services, Inc (JSSI) has named Tom Poberezny, former president of the Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA), to its board of advisors. Louis C. Seno is chairman…
Father of Air National Guard Base In Duluth Dies At Age 91
DULUTH, MINN. – The man called the father of the Minnesota Air National Guard Base in Duluth, Minnesota, Retired Col. John Hed, died from congestive heart failure, January 16, 2012…
Knight Replaces Eickhoff On Sun ‘N Fun Board
LAKELAND, FLA. – The Sun ‘n Fun Board of Directors elected Bob Knight, president of Knight Industrial Equipment, Inc., Lakeland, Fla., as its chairman at their January 2012 board meeting….
Babbitt Resigns After DWI
WASHINGTON, D.C. – FAA Administrator Randy Babbitt resigned following his arrest December 3, 2011 near his home in Fairfax City, Va., on charges of drunken driving. Babbitt, 65, said that…
Former FAA Administrator J. Lynn Helms Dies
WESTPORT, CONN. – Former FAA Administrator under the Reagan Administration, J. Lynn Helms, died December 11, 2011, at his home in Westport, Connecticut at age 86 from cardiopulmonary failure and…