FBOs

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] […]

My nephew Kermit had moved up in the world. Fresh out of the Aviation College at the University of South Toledo, he was a sales-rep gofer for one of the dozens of new VLJ manufacturers that dot the flying landscape of late.He was justifiably proud of the “Sky-Screamer 100.” Not only did this three-place, subsonic, […]

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 […]

Nominate an FBO |Rules |Tips |Questions |Winning FBOs AVweb‘s “FBO of the Week” ribbon goes to Aviation Facilities, Inc. (AFI) at KFUL in Fullerton, California – a family-run FBO that celebrated its 40th anniversary at KFUL last week. AVweb reader Ray Stratton gave us a little history: Starting with a C-150 and using the airport […]

Fog shrouded the Northwest airport. A single-engine, retractable-gear airplane, with three aboard, was arriving from a routine, cross-country flight. The experienced pilot set up for a GPS approach. At the missed-approach point, the ground was still obscured so the pilot powered up and began a climb; but as the aircraft crossed directly over the airport, […]

Nominate an FBO |Rules |Tips |Questions |Winning FBOs AVweb’s “FBO of the Week” ribbon goes to Zenith Flight Support at KRAL in Riverside, California. AVweb reader Bob Spidell quot;didn’t know a thing about local FBOs … [and] picked one out of Pilot’s Guide,” but he was surprised at how well he’d picked when he arrived […]

I doubt a day goes by without someone here in the Pilot’s Lounge at the virtual airport expressing concern about the diminishing number of pilots in the U.S. and the seeming lack of interest on the part of young people in learning to fly. There are evenings when the subject is batted around endlessly, yet […]

Nominate an FBO |Rules |Tips |Questions |Winning FBOs AVweb’s “FBO of the Week” ribbon goes to Cutter Aviation at KCOS in Colorado Springs, Colorado. AVweb reader Jim Landfried recommended the FBO after getting top-notch, personalized service from a big chain operation: I was surprised that at [an] airport this [big] they didn’t charge any more […]

It isn’t often that an airline flight crew has time to go to a football game during a layover. Many years ago when I was a plumber on the old DC-8 we used to have beacoup Detroit layovers, which meant we were laying-over in Ann Arbor at the venerated Ann Arbor Inn.Those layovers were seasonal […]

Nominate an FBO |Rules |Tips |Questions |Winning FBOs AVweb’s “FBO of the Week” ribbon goes to Hutt Aviation & Soar Minden at Tahoe-Minden Airport (KMEV) in Minden, Nevada. The Civil Air Patrol’s Brent Ludlow spent quite a few hours there during the last two weeks as part of the search for missing aviator Steve Fossett. […]