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Nominate an FBO |Rules |Tips |Questions |Winning FBOs AVweb‘s latest “FBO of the Week” comes to us from reader Sandra Wirth, who found herself making an unplanned stop at Burnet Municipal Airport/Kate Craddock Field (KBMQ) in Burnet, Texas, where she discovered Faulkner’s Air Shop: While on a ferry flight from California to Florida in a […]
Nominate an FBO |Rules |Tips |Questions |Winning FBOs AVweb‘s “FBO of the Week” ribbon goes to Sterling Aviation at Buchanan Field (KCCR) in Concord, California. AVweb reader Sid Tolchin had a great visit at Sterling recently: After landing and checking in at the FBO, we noted our rental car (from a major agency) had not […]
Nominate an FBO |Rules |Tips |Questions |Winning FBOs AVweb‘s “FBO of the Week” ribbon goes to Maverick Air Center. AVweb reader Clay Anderson works alongside Maverick at Joe Foss Field Airport (KFSD) in Sioux Falls, South Dakota – and has plenty of good things to say about them: I started a flight school with one […]
In five years since its birth, Redbird has gone from zero to number one in its market niche. It has put more than 300 active-motion flight simulators into general aviation pilot training centers. It has introduced a compelling price for performance argument within the flight training segment. And it has wrapped all that in an […]
Nominate an FBO |Rules |Tips |Questions |Winning FBOs AVweb‘s latest “FBO of the Week” ribbon goes to Connell Flying Service at Decorah Municipal Airport (KDEH) in Decorah, Iowa. AVweb reader John Hanson discovered the FBO after an unscheduled stopover: My wife and I had a change of itinerary caused by the Hurricane Sandy weather system […]
Nominate an FBO |Rules |Tips |Questions |Winning FBOs Makings lemons out of lemonade is the sign of a great FBO, and this week, reader David Townsend tells us how the FBO at Coulter Field (KCFD) in Bryan, Texas took the sting out of an unplanned detour a couple of weeks ago: On October 19, I […]
Aviation entrepreneur Rod Rakic’s idea for OpenAirplane has earned the support of some big names in the aviation industry who believe it could simplify access to aircraft, improve pilot safety, increase profits for flight schools and FBOs, and generally boost the aviation industry — all by changing how we rent airplanes. OpenAirplane is nearing its […]
Nominate an FBO |Rules |Tips |Questions |Winning FBOs AVweb‘s “FBO of the Week” ribbon goes to Eagles of America at Southwest Georgia Regional Airport (KABY) in Albany, Georgia. AVweb reader Matthew Hevey recommended the FBO, writing: While flying with my family to Atlanta from Orlando Sunday evening before Labor Day, I experienced an alternator failure […]
Nominate an FBO |Rules |Tips |Questions |Winning FBOs AVweb‘s “FBO of the Week” ribbon goes to the Memphis/Shelby County Airport Authority (MSCAA) FBO at General Dewitt Spain Airport (M01) in Memphis, Tennessee. AVweb reader Scott Bartley had high praise for the facility: By far the best FBO I have flown into in the past three […]
Nominate an FBO |Rules |Tips |Questions |Winning FBOs Once again, we’ve had a bumper crop of nominations to our weekly FBO contest – and this time, many of them came from members of the Beech Aero Club, which apparently had a terrific annual get-together at Jack Edwards Airport (KJKA) in Gulf Shores, Alabama, where Gulf […]
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