Aviation News

Jeff Russell JeffAirLLC and BFT International have recently merged to form Maine’s only dedicated aviation marketing company, BFT Aviation Marketing. It will be headed up by JeffAir owner Jeff Russell.

David Herbst has rejoined Mercury Air Group as Executive Vice President of Corporate Strategies. In the 1990s he was Director of Corporate Relations when the company was public and was most recently Senior Vice President and General Manager of MWW Group, a PR firm in Los Angeles.

Midcoast Aviation President Kurt Sutterer has been named vice chairman of the National Air Transportation Association. He’s the fourth Midcoast executive to serve on the NATA board and will become Chairman of the organization in 2009.

Embry-Riddle offers hands-on aviation summer camp June 9 to August 6 … EAA AirVenture 2008 to open with rock band, Foreigner, performing opening-day concert in AeroShell Square, July 28 at 6-8 p.m. … A drunken passenger was duct-taped to his seat by crew and fellow passengers after disrupting a flight Wednesday from Hong Kong to […]

Wing panel fasteners that failed on a B-757 in March were new fasteners that had been redesigned after earlier problems with the wing panel fastening system, the NTSB said this week… The Senate is expected to move forward on FAA reauthorization and user fees soon, the National Business Aviation Association said this week… Alaska’s annual […]

Dane Flanigan Dane Flanigan has been added as an account executive for A List Jets. Hell look after both business and celebrity clientele.

FirstFlight FirstFlight Inc. has named Michael Gaffney to head its new division, JetEquity Solutions, which will focus on aircraft financial services. Gaffney has more than 40 years of experience in the aviation finance sector.

A bird strike likely caused the crash that killed two University of North Dakota students last year, according to investigators at the school, the school newspaper reported… Red Bull Air Races come to San Diego on May 3 and 4, and on to Detroit, May 31 and June 1… Diamond’s third D-jet has flown for […]

Michael Gauvreau has joined Arcadia Aviation as Vice President of Aircraft Sales and Acquisitions. Arcadia is based in New York City and has FBOs in Martinsburg, W. Va. And Sullivan County, N.Y. Gauvreau worked previously at International Jet Management and Executive Flightways.

A pilot leaving Sun ‘n Fun about 11:30 a.m. Sunday was killed after his plane crashed shortly after takeoff. Identity and address of the pilot weren’t available at deadline … A blown flypast by National Guard F-16s at Fenway Park in Boston has resulted in the grounding of the out-of-position pilot. The maneuver he chose […]