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“Grab your fast food and join us for lunch” was how the invitation opened.

When an airport considers environmental impact on neighbors, noise is usually the top concern, but dealing with water- and air-pollution issues is becoming

There may be some pilots who fly airplanes solely because it’s a soft ride to a bloated paycheck, and they may think EAA AirVenture in Oshkosh, Wis., is on

Operators of some posh FBOs sometimes complain that pilots are “looking for Wal-Mart prices.” At Beaver Lake Aviation at Rogers (Ark.) Airport (ROG), that’

Pilots visiting the site of the Wright Brothers’ first flight at Kill Devil Hills, N.C., near Kitty Hawk will soon have more than a minimalist line shack i

Deciding that it wanted to return to the meat and potatoes of its core business, hamburger restaurant chain Krystal has divested its FBO at Chattanooga (Te

With its 5,000-ft runway, Weslaco (Texas) Mid Valley Airport (T65) may not be a beehive of jet activity, but the local authority recently spent $2.1 millio

Avion Jet Center at Orlando Sanford (Fla.) Airport (SBF) has signed on as an Avfuel-branded dealer.

Ken Weber, an Astra pilot based at Teterboro (N.J.) Airport (TEB), won Atlantic Aviation’s “Top-off=$10,000” drawing at last month’s NBAA Convention in Orl

A fixture at Van Nuys (Calif.) Airport (VNY) for decades, Clay Lacy Aviation now has a second location.

In the two years since it began a $15 million rebuilding program at Dallas Love Field (DAL), Business Jet Center has more than doubled its market share on

Bird-X’s GooseBuster uses alert and alarm calls recorded by actual Canada geese, which the company says the geese recognize and respond to instinctively.

Schaumburg (Ill.) Airport (06C) is sandwiched beneath the Class B airspace just west of Chicago O’Hare and sports a single 3,800-foot runway with 100-foot

“It was definitely our second choice, but it turned out to be a good one.” That’s how corporate air transport manager Rich Sismour characterized GE’s move

Signature Flight Support acquisition personnel have had a busy first half of the year.

New York is a demanding business environment, especially in aviation.

Banyan Air Service president Don Campion announced earlier this year his FBO has acquired the assets and adjoining leasehold formerly owned by Cav-Air at F

Earlier this year, Thunder Aviation at Spirit of St.

This summer, Cutter Aviation opened its fifth FBO, this time serving Big D at Dallas Executive Airpark.

The Embraer Legacy factory demonstrator is shown here over Florida’s intracoastal waterway on its way to Orlando, Fla., last month for display at the NBAA

That may jinx it, but the new maintenance service center hangar for PrivateSky at Fort Myers (Fla.) Airport (RSW) is being built to withstand a class 5 hur

ChevronTexaco expanded its reach when its general aviation division announced that the Hiller Group, a major distributor of ChevronTexaco aviation products

On the subject of security procedures, Sandy Waters, v-p of KaiserAir at Oakland (Calif.) International Airport, said, “There has never been a successful h

Million Air Dallas at Addison Airport (ADS) has signed on as an Avfuel dealer.

Central Texas, near the capital city of Austin, may yet get the general aviation airport it has so desperately needed for the past several years.

Efforts to relieve congestion at Mexico City Benito Juarez International Airport were dealt a blow last month when the Mexican government abandoned plans t

The Santa Monica (Calif.) Municipal Airport Commission has proposed an “aircraft conformance program” (ACP) that would effectively ban certain larger busin

Like all high-tech industries, aviation has hardware, software and wetware.

Two former charter representatives from now-defunct Flight Time have risen from the ashes of their former jobs to found a new charter-brokering business.

If you want to buy a big business jet, there’s no shortage of brokers and management companies that are eager to help you in the areas of mission analysis,