The Minnesota Aviation Hall of Fame will be inducting six outstanding Minnesota aviation personalities this coming Spring. The six include Orville Brede, WWII veteran, instructor pilot, pilot examiner, charter pilot and…
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Chris Siberz Promoted To Aircraft Sales Manager At DMFS
DES MOINES, IOWA. – Chris Siberz has been promoted to the position of Aircraft Sales Manager for Des Moines Flying Service, Chicago Piper and HondaJet Midwest. Siberz has been with…
GA News Founder Dave Sclair Passes On
The founder of General Aviation News, Dave Sclair, died July 26, 2011, of a malignant brain tumor. He was diagnosed just months previously. His son, Ben, and Dave’s wife and…
Blake, Lung, Rieser & Timmons Inducted Into Illinois Aviation Hall of Fame!
SPRINGFIELD, ILL. – AOPA Great Lakes Regional Representative, William L. Blake; co-founder of the Ogle County Pilots Association, Francis N. Lung; the longest standing manager at a public airport in…
Southern Illinois University Takes Home A Win At National Championships
CARBONDALE, ILL. – Students at Southern Illinois University (SIUC) Carbondale won the 2011 National Intercollegiate Flying Association Championship, May 21, at Ohio State University Airport. The team, called the “Flying…
Aviation Artist, Michelle Rouch
by Esta-Ann Elliott Seven years and one month after the Wright Brothers made their first flight, Eugene B. Ely, racecar driver, chauffeur, car salesman and self-taught pilot, made naval aviation…
Astronaut Inducted Into Iowa Aviation Hall of Fame
GREENFIELD, IOWA – Beaconsfield, Iowa native and astronaut, Peggy Whitson, took her place beside other notable Iowans as a member of the Iowa Aviation Hall of Fame on Saturday, June…
Astronaut Whitson To Be Inducted Into Iowa Aviation Hall of Fame
Beaconsfield, Iowa native Peggy Whitson will take her place beside other notable Iowans as a member of the Iowa Aviation Hall of Fame on Saturday, June 18, 2011 at ceremonies…
Mr. Pietenpol: Bill Rewey Famed Aircamper Homebuilder Turns A Page
by Ed Leineweber Maybe you noticed the ad on the bulletin board of your local airport: For Sale ’94 Pietenpol Aircamper NX17WR. Whether you realized it or not, if you…
A Quiet Genius Ferdinand Rohe Ohnsorg
Few aviators are likely to know the name of Ferdinand Rohe Ohnsorg; but fewer still have not used a piece of aviation electronics equipment that wasn’t based on the invention…