FBOs

Nominate an FBO |Rules |Tips |Questions |Winning FBOs AVweb’s “FBO of the Week” ribbon goes to Heartland Aviation at KEAU in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. AVweb reader Mark Griffith was preparing to leave Eau Claire when his alternator failed: Unable to make the one-hour flight back to Rochester and realizing that the FBO had just closed, […]

Nominate an FBO |Rules |Tips |Questions |Winning FBOs AVweb’s “FBO of the Week” ribbon goes to Panorama Flight Service at Westchester County Airport (KHPN) in White Plains, N.Y. “Panorama Flight Service goes out of their way to serve pilots and passengers,” according to AVweb reader George Samara, who also raved about the princely treatment he […]

The Pilot’s Lounge at the virtual airport was days and many miles away from the chair to which I was affixing myself with a seat belt and shoulder harness. I had foolishly started my travels via a ground conveyance that had proven its utility by breaking down rather spectacularly in rural Missouri. I managed the […]

Studs Terkel: We’re seated here, two old gaffers. Me and Paul Tibbets, 89 years old, brigadier-general retired, in his home town of Columbus, Ohio, where he has lived for many years. Paul Tibbets: Hey, you’ve got to correct that. I’m only 87. You said 89. Studs Terkel: I know. See, I’m 90. So I got […]

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 […]