TOPEKA, KAN. – Long-time pilot and Kansas Department of Transportation veteran Jesse R. Romo has been named Director of the Kansas Department of Transportation (KDOT) Division of Aviation. Romo is…
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Welbourn Joins Travers Insurance
ST. LOUIS, MO. – Bill Welbourn has joined Travers & Associates as a consultant to the company’s commercial division. Welbourn has extensive underwriting and claims management experience in all lines…
Aircraft Engine Baffle Supplier, Airforms, Inc., Creates Marketing Position In Twin Cities
The supplier of replacement aircraft engine baffles, Airforms, Inc., has named Dave Utsch of Hasting, Minnesota to lead the company’s marketing and customer service efforts as the company’s new executive…
Rippke To Retire From Bolton & Menk
MANKATO, MINN. – Jon Rippke, P.E., Chairman of the Board of the engineering firm Bolton & Menk, Inc., headquartered in Mankato, Minnesota, retired at the end of 2013 after 40…
Plane Missing In Idaho With Ties To Midwest, Found
BOISE, IDAHO – The wreckage of a Beechcraft Bonanza flown by Dale Smith, 51, of San Jose, Calif., and carrying five people, including Jonathan Norton of Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, was…
Milwaukee Pilot Inducted Into Flight Instructor Hall of Fame
MILWAUKEE, WIS. – The National Association of Flight Instructors honored Gregory G. Gorak of Gaits Aviation Seminars as its 25th inductee into the Flight Instructor Hall of Fame, November 2,…
EAA & AOPA Leaders Meet In Oshkosh
OSHKOSH, WIS. – EAA Chairman Jack Pelton and AOPA President & CEO Mark Baker led discussions between their respective senior staffs on December 16, 2013 at the EAA Aviation Center…
Industry Mourns Death of Industry Leader
Washington, D.C. – Officials with the National Association of State Aviation Officials (NASAO) have announced that its president and CEO for the past 18 years, Henry Michael Ogrodzinski, 65, died…
A Lifetime In Aviation, As I Remember It
by Don Winkler Flying has been somewhat different for me. I have grown up with a camera in my hand. The airplane has been a platform for me to capture…
Kansas Gets New State Aviation Director
TOPEKA, KAN. – Long-time pilot and Kansas Department of Transportation veteran Jesse R. Romo has been named Director of the Kansas Department of Transportation (KDOT) Division of Aviation. Romo is…
Minnesota Names New Aeronautics Assistant Office Director
ST. PAUL, MINN. – Minnesota Office of Aeronautics Director Cassandra Isackson has named Kathy Vesely from her staff Assistant Office Director effective November 6, 2013. In addition to having a…
Meet David Montesinos… Airport Development Engineer WisDOT Bureau of Aeronautics
MADISON, WIS. – David Montesinos joined the Wisconsin Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Aeronautics in January 1991. As an airport development engineer, Montesinos is responsible for managing projects at seven…
Lockheed 10 Electra Aircraft Restorer Lee Koepke Passes
YPSILANTI, MICH. – Aircraft restorer Lee R. Koepke, 87, of Ypsilanti, Michigan, passed away July 3, 2013. After serving in the Army Air Force during World War II, Koepke pursued…
Vietnam Vets Remembered
MADISON, WIS. – They called it “Operation Dustoff.” The Wisconsin Department of Veterans Affairs organized ceremonies November 8, 2013, at the State Capitol to recognize the men and women from…
State of Wisconsin Honors EAA Founder
MADISON, WIS. – The family of the late Paul Poberezny who founded the Experimental Aircraft Association with his wife, Audrey, in the basement of their Milwaukee home in 1953, was…