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Skytech Skytech is bucking the downturn and just opened a new facility at Carroll County Regional Airport (KDMW) where it will continue to deal in high-end single Pipers, Cessnas, and Pilatus aircraft. The company also recently completed a facility in Charlotte with an eye to serving the rebounding market in two years.

Rob Cords Rob Cords has been appointed StandardAero’s senior vice president of strategy, business development and customer support. He was formerly at the Oliver Wyman Group, where he was an associate partner in the aviation, aerospace and defense practice.

Blair Sullivan Andy Biller Groom Aviation has created Groom Aviation Sales to enhance its Beechcraft-oriented business. King Air sales experts Blair Sullivan and Andy Biller have joined the new company, which will specialize in Beech products but handle all types of aircraft.

If you’d like to fly a Zeppelin someday, here’s your chance. Airship Ventures has two more “Pilot for a Day” sessions coming up in California: Nov. 19 & 20 in Long Beach, and Nov. 30 & Dec. 1 at Moffett Field, near San Francisco. Click here for more details, and click here for a recent […]

Glenn Juber Glenn Juber is the new Director of Maintenance at Platinum Aviation Service at Ft. Lauderdale Executive Airport. He was previously Director of Maintenance for Flight Level in Norwood, Conn.

The AVweb staff have packed their bags and are on their way home from the first AOPA Summit in Tampa, Florida – and guess what editor Mary Grady found on her digital camera? If you said “a bunch of great photos that AVweb didn’t get a chance to share with us during the show,” you’d […]

“This is what every pilot is dreaming of, when they go to the airport to learn to fly,” said John McKenna, as he watched one slide after another of beautiful wilderness views scroll by on the wall of his group’s new display at AOPA Aviation Summit in Tampa this week. McKenna is one the pilots […]

Everyone can participate in this week’s AOPA Summit in Tampa via the Internet, with a slew of new online features being tried out for the first time. Folks with interests in common can meet up via AOPALive.org, or use the meet-up function to connect with live people at the show. David Allen, webmaster for mytransponder.com, […]

The SR-71 Blackbird was one of the most distinctive and powerful aircraft ever built, and one of the select group of pilots who flew it visited AOPA Summit in Tampa this week to tell the story of the airplane and its place in history. Brian Shul, a retired Air Force pilot, has written a book […]

Many aviation advocacy groups share a goal to work toward diversifying the pilot population, and in an effort to encourage more women to consider aviation careers, Women in Aviation International teamed up with AOPA this week to create a Women’s Wing for the Aviation Summit in Tampa. “We offered seminars and mini-forums about careers, about […]