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Nominate an FBO |Rules |Tips |Questions |Winning FBOs AVweb‘s “FBO of the Week” ribbon goes to the center at West Plains Municipal Airport (KUNO) in West Plains, Missouri. AVweb reader Jim Vick recommended the FBO after several top-notch visits to the facility: [E]ach experience is the same, with terrific hospitality and service. A phone call […]
Nominate an FBO |Rules |Tips |Questions |Winning FBOs AVweb‘s “FBO of the Week” ribbon goes to Stars and Stripes Air Services at 61B in Boulder City, Nevada. AVweb reader Richard Woodsum recommended the FBO: Due to IFR weather along my route from SAC to ABQ, I spent an extra two days at Boulder City, Nevada. […]
Nominate an FBO |Rules |Tips |Questions |Winning FBOs AVweb‘s “FBO of the Week” ribbon goes to Desert Skies Executive Air Terminal at Lake Havasu City Airport (HII) in Lake Havasu, Arizona. AVweb reader Claudia Huber confessed that she stopped at Desert Skies “because of the cheap fuel,” but was surprised by the hospitality: Our first […]
Nominate an FBO |Rules |Tips |Questions |Winning FBOs AVweb‘s “FBO of the Week” ribbon goes to an FBO that’s taken the honor once before, back in 2007. AVweb reader Daniel Stegeman recommended Blue Bell, Pennsylvania’s Montgomery County Aviation this time around: [This] is not a fancy FBO. However, every day of the week – rain, […]
Nominate an FBO |Rules |Tips |Questions |Winning FBOs Santa makes one final delivery for the holiday season, awarding AVweb‘s “FBO of the Week” ribbon to Epps Aviation at KPDK in Atlanta, Georgia. AVweb reader Steve Shrum has the story of how Epps saved his Christmas: I was delivering some very special cargo to Peachtree on […]
Nominate an FBO |Rules |Tips |Questions |Winning FBOs AVweb‘s “FBO of the Week” ribbon goes to Galaxy Air Services at Lone Star Executive Airport (CXO) in Conroe, Texas. AVweb reader David Hertz described a nightmare lay-over in Conroe that was made a little easier by the dream team at Galaxy: We were on our way […]
Things have been kind of busy, so my visits to the Pilot’s Lounge at the virtual airport have been carried out at low cruise. I was present long enough recently to hear a student describing to his instructor what he had learned after having some difficulty with crosswind landings. She listened patiently as his recital […]
Nominate an FBO |Rules |Tips |Questions |Winning FBOs AVweb‘s “FBO of the Week” ribbon goes to Pecos Air Center at KPEQ in Pecos, Texas. AVweb reader Jeffrey B. Chipetine called the FBO “a terrific stop on the way home to New York from California”: [I] called in on Unicom (45 miles out from 13.5K) as […]
Nominate an FBO |Rules |Tips |Questions |Winning FBOs AVweb‘s “FBO of the Week” ribbon goes to Don Davis Aviation at Henderson County Airport (KEHR) in Henderson, Kentucky. AVweb reader George Samara recommended this week’s winner, writing: This airport team goes out of their way to please and accommodate a visiting pilot … [everyone from] the […]
Nominate an FBO |Rules |Tips |Questions |Winning FBOs AVweb‘s “FBO of the Week” ribbon goes to the FBO at John H. Batten International Airport (KRAC) in Racine, Wisconsin. We’ve heard quite a few nice things about Batten Airport recently, but one of the earliest comments came from AVweb reader A. M. Radel, who wrote: The […]
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