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Residents opposed to the Jacksonville Aviation Authority’s (JAA’s) bid to lengthen a runway at Craig Field, a reliever airport close to downtown Jacksonville, say the authority is breaking a six-year-old promise to leave the facility as is. In 2001, the airport authority agreed to scrap any expansion plans in exchange for autonomy from the Jacksonville […]

Nominate an FBO |Rules |Tips |Questions |Winning FBOs AVweb’s “FBO of the Week” ribbon goes to Panorama Flight Service at Westchester County Airport (KHPN) in White Plains, N.Y. “Panorama Flight Service goes out of their way to serve pilots and passengers,” according to AVweb reader George Samara, who also raved about the princely treatment he […]

Submit a Photo |Rules |Tips |Questions |Past Winners Each week, we go through dozens (and sometimes hundreds) of reader-submitted photos and pick the very best to share with you on Thursday mornings. The top photos are featured on AVweb‘s home page, and one photo that stands above the others is awarded an AVweb baseball cap […]

Nominate an FBO |Rules |Tips |Questions |Winning FBOs AVweb’s “FBO of the Week” ribbon goes to Minute Man Airfield at 6B6 in Stow, Massachusetts. AVweb reader Dick Shafner recommended the FBO after spending some time there and discovering that (for piston pilot at least) “Minute Man Airfield has it all”: [Onwer Don and wife Nancy] […]

Recommend a Video |VOTW Archive We know them as “waterbombers,” “superscoopers,” and “ducks,” but when wildfires burn out of control (as they did this week throughout Southern California), Canadair’s CL-series firefighters are nothing short of lifesavers. In this clip from CNN (posted on LiveLeak by user bellava), we see one such scooper flying low over […]

Submit a Photo |Rules |Tips |Questions |Past Winners Each week, we go through dozens (and sometimes hundreds) of reader-submitted photos and pick the very best to share with you on Thursday mornings. The top photos are featured on AVweb‘s home page, and one photo that stands above the others is awarded an AVweb baseball cap […]

Recommend a Video |VOTW Archive This week, we turn our attention away from the usual timely and immediately relevant videos found around the ‘net and instead cast our eyes back to the 1960s and ’70s. Last week, AVweb reader Noah Forden sent us a link to a page about the “Caspian Sea Monster,” a Russian […]

Nominate an FBO |Rules |Tips |Questions |Winning FBOs AVweb’s “FBO of the Week” ribbon goes to Lockhart Aviation Service’s Saskatoon Airport Esso at CYXE in Saskatoon, Canada. AVweb reader Jim Hinnen stopped in on a fishing trip and couldn’t recommend Lockhart highly enough: Owner/manager [Douglas Lockhart] … directed us to phones, parked and tied us […]

Submit a Photo |Rules |Tips |Questions |Past Winners Each week, we go through dozens (and sometimes hundreds) of reader-submitted photos and pick the very best to share with you on Thursday mornings. The top photos are featured on AVweb‘s home page, and one photo that stands above the others is awarded an AVweb baseball cap […]

Recommend a Video |VOTW Archive More incredible aerobatics from the World Wide Web, this time courtesy of AVweb reader Paul Logue (thanks, Paul!) and featuring Eastern European pilots Svetlana Kapanina and Pter Besenyei: Don’t see a video screen?Try disabling ad blockers and refreshing this page.If that doesn’t work, click here to download the video directly.