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LoPresti Aviation, based in Vero Beach, Fla., will soon start building a 100,000-square-foot production plant at the Belen airport in central New Mexico, the Albuquerque Journal reported last week. The company, which for years has been in the aviation business as LoPresti Speed Merchants, plans to start production on the LoPresti Fury, a sporty two-seat […]

New Mexico’s Spaceport has scheduled its first launch of a spacecraft for Aug. 14. The 20-foot-tall, 800-pound rocket will be fired by UP Aerospace, a Colorado company that designed the craft to carry light payloads into space at low cost. The rocket will carry over 50 payloads and experiments, mostly from high-school and college students. […]

The FAA has committed to installing Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast equipment to cover the Gulf of Mexico, thanks in part, no doubt, to a $100 million carrot dangled by the gulf-oil-fed helicopter industry. According to a news release issued by the Helicopter Association International, chopper operators will supply manpower, facilities and free flights totaling a value […]

Virgin Galactic will locate its world headquarters and Mission Control in New Mexico, in a deal with the state that will launch the creation of a $200 million spaceport on a 27-square-mile site in a remote part of the state. Will Whitehorn, president of Virgin Galactic, announced the deal on Tuesday, saying New Mexico is […]

UP Aerospace, of Connecticut, will be the first company to launch a rocket from New Mexico’s Southwest Regional Spaceport, in March 2006. “This launch will be a brilliant signal flare that will let the nation and the world know New Mexico’s spaceport is open for business,” New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson announced last week. (We’ll […]

New Mexico’s new Spaceport Authority met for the first time last Wednesday to start making plans for a new commercial spaceport in the state. “Now we move into implementation,” Spaceport Authority Chairman Rick Homans told Space.com after the meeting. A site of 27 square miles, about 45 miles north of Las Cruces, has already been […]

Speaking of politics, that’s what appears to stand in the way of New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson’s (D) getting a new King Air. And the details won’t surprise the average corporate aviation manager who has to deal with his own internal bureaucracy. After soliciting as many as six bids, Richardson’s administration is in the throes […]

Wiring Jobs Head South… The growing trend to outsource American jobs is also gaining popularity in the aerospace market. On Nov. 7, 350 Raytheon Aircraft Co workers in Wichita learned their jobs were heading south of the border to Mexico. Officials at Raytheon’s wire harness division in east Wichita announced it would transfer the wiring […]

According to the AviationCrime Prevention Institute (ACPI), there has been a sharp upturnin aircraft thefts and associated violence in western Mexico andBaja California. In March, ACPI reported that threeMexican-registered aircraft were stolen in one week alone. OneCessna 402 pilot was approached by a gunman, shot dead and thrownoff the aircraft. A Cessna 206 pilot was […]

I just got back from a very enjoyable flying vacation trip toMexico with my wife and another couple. I flew my Cessna 210from Dallas to the beautiful city of Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.After nearly a week in PV, we moved up the coast and over intoBaja. We departed on November 10, 1994 with the expectation ofspending […]