Aviation News

Jet Aviation Jet Aviation received a Part 135 Air Carrier Certificate and will operate under Jet Aviation Flight Services, Inc. Priester Aviation, which had formed a strategic alliance with Jet while it was foreign-owned, is aiding the transition now that the company is owned by General Dynamics, parent company of Gulfstream.

Michael France Michael France is the new director of regulatory affairs at the National Air Transportation Association. He was formerly the manager of regulatory affairs.

John Nelson is the new salesman for Air BP in the Southeast. He’s a chemical engineer, pilot and founder of an FBO accounting software company.

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 […]