The 2015 Wisconsin Bureau of Aeronautics Airport Engineer’s Workshop will be held Tuesday, February 17th at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Madison. This day-long workshop brings airport engineering consultants together…
Category: Airports
2014 Airport Operations & Land Use Seminar
STEVENS POINT, WIS. – More than 100 people, representing approximately 40 airports around Wisconsin, gathered in Stevens Point in late September for the annual Airport Operations & Land Use Seminar…
Brainerd Lakes Regional Airport Expands GA Services… Features Airport Restaurant!
BRAINERD, MINN. – Located on the south bank of the Mississippi River approximately 2.5 miles east of Brainerd, Brainerd Lakes Regional Airport (KBRD) encompasses 2,567 acres of hills, forests and…
Park Rapids Municipal Airport – Konshok Field Opens New Crosswind Runway
PARK RAPIDS, MINN. – Park Rapids Municipal Airport – Konshok Field has replaced its turf crosswind runway (Runway 36-18) with a new 75 X 3,500 ft paved and lighted runway,…
Appleton Airport Continues Expanding…. New Ramp To Increase Hard-Surface Parking For EAA AirVenture Oshkosh, & Year-Round Business & Tourism
APPLETON, WIS. – If you are one of the growing number of pilots who fly to Outagamie County Regional Airport in Appleton, Wisconsin, for EAA AirVenture Oshkosh, you – and…
Yingling Aviation Opens Subway Café
by Molly McMillin The Wichita Eagle WICHITA, KAN. – Yingling Aviation, the fixed base operation at Wichita Mid-Continent Airport, has opened a Subway Café inside one of its hangars. The…
Appleton Airport Continues Expanding…. New Ramp To Increase Hard-Surface Parking For EAA AirVenture Oshkosh, & Year-Round Business & Tourism
APPLETON, WIS. – If you are one of the growing number of pilots who fly to Outagamie County Regional Airport in Appleton, Wisconsin, for EAA AirVenture Oshkosh, you – and…
Thunderbird Aviation Removes Original Terminal Building To Make Room For Expanded Ramp
EDEN PRAIRIE, MINN. – In 2012 – 50 years since the company was founded in 1962 – Thunderbird Aviation invested $2 million in building a new 8,000 square foot facility…
The Continually Growing Buffer Paradox
by Daniel McDowell One of the more significant problems in aviation today is that of incompatible development around airports. Three primary issues stand out when there is development around airports,…
Washington Island Lions Fish Boil Fly-In
by Jim LaMalfa Approximately, 120 airplanes flew to Washington Island off the Door County Peninsula for the annual Lion’s Club Fish Boil Fly-In on Saturday, July 19. The weather was…
Building A Backyard Airstrip
by Hal Davis WisDOT Bureau of Aeronautics How many landing facilities would you guess there are in Wisconsin? If you guessed “a lot,” you would be right! In all, Wisconsin…
City Takes Over FBO In Hopes of Increasing Traffic
RANTOUL, ILL. – Like many small towns that lose their fixed base operator, the City of Rantoul, Illinois, has decided to take over the fixed base operation. This decision came…
Doing Business In Winona
WINONA, MINN. – The economy has taken its toll in recent years on the small southeastern community of Winona, Minnesota, but things are looking up. Three Hawker Beechcraft Premier Jets…
Cedar Rapids Names Interim Airport Director
CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA – Don Swanson has been named Interim Airport Director at Eastern Iowa Airport to replace Tim Bradshaw, who accepted a position as the executive director of Roanoke–Blacksburg…
New FAA Hangar Policy Draft – Confusing!
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Two weeks after the FAA unveiled its draft policy for allowed uses in hangars at airports that receive federal grant funding, much confusion has emerged regarding the…