Mark Phelps

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Security

Do SAMs pose a real threat to civil aviation?

What is the realistic likelihood of your aircraft being targeted by a shoulder-launched surface-to-air missile (SAM) in the hands of a terrorist? After an
FBOs

Hallmark Jet Center Gets a Monster Truck

Hallmark Jet Center at San Antonio International Airport (SAT), Texas, recently received this spanking new 6,000-gallon refueler.

New England Bizav group formed

Made up primarily of operators at Hanscom Field (BED) outside Boston, a new local business aviation group has formed.
Maintenance and Modifications

Wilson Air Center adds maintenance to its menu

Wilson Air Center at Memphis International Airport (MEM), Tenn., has signed an agreement with The Hangar to provide maintenance on site.
FBOs

Rifton aviation copes with downturn

Rifton Aviation at Stewart International Airport (SWF) in Newburgh, N.Y., has confounded observers since it took over the former W.R.
Airports

Morristown has nowhere to grow

William Barkhauer, director of Morristown Municipal Airport (MMU), N.J., told a meeting of Morris County Freeholders early this year that the 637-acre airp
Airports

Texas installing 10 AWOS units

The Texas Department of Transportation has awarded a $700,000 contract for 10 All Weather airport weather observation systems (AWOS).
Airports

Lunken Airport and local residents debate weight

The airport board and some users at Lunken Airport in Cincinnati, Ohio, are at odds over a higher aircraft weight limit proposed late last year.
FBOs

UK firm markets fuel contamination detector

Since introducing its Fuelstat contamination detection kit at the Dubai Air Show in 2001, Conidia Bioscience has sold the product to major airlines, helico
FBOs

Atlantic announces awards program

Atlantic Aviation took the wraps off its Atlantic Awards program for jet flight crews.
FBOs

Santa Monica ban resurfaces

The City of Santa Monica City Council plans to introduce a law that will exclude large jets from landing at the city’s airport.
FBOs

Jet Aviation begins construction in Dubai

Jet Aviation announced last month it has begun construction of its new FBO and maintenance facility at the Dubai International Airport, United Arab Emirate
FBOs

MMU hangars feature high-tech floor finish

The final two of six E-series hangars are nearly complete at developer MMU-FTC’s site at Morristown Municipal Airport, N.J.
FBOs

Mercury's new facility now open at CHS

Shortly after its purchase by finance house Allied Capital earlier this year, Mercury Air Centers dedicated a new hangar and tenant office facility at Char
Airports

Van Nuys announces stopgap master plan

With the Van Nuys Airport (VNY), Calif., master plan in political limbo, officials at the nation’s busiest general aviation airport have come up with a tem

CAP gets backing from Air BP

Air BP Aviation Services has gone on record supporting the mission of the Civil Air Patrol (CAP) with financial support for CAP’s cadet and youth-developme
Airports

Dallas reliever airport wins award

The Dallas Executive Airport (RBD) has been selected as the 2004 Reliever Airport of the Year by the Texas Department of Transportation.
FBOs

Sydney FBO gains new lease on life

Since reopening its FBO at Sydney International Airport, Australia, early last year, Hawker Pacific Flight Centre’s business has expanded significantly.
Regulations and Government

FAA not impressed with BUR's Part 161 study

In a letter to the Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport Authority dated May 18 (but released only last month), the FAA concluded that the authority’s proposed
FBOs

Ac-U-Kwik goes global with Web site redesign

There are many ways to gain access to information about airports and the services available there.
Airports

All-new airport planned for Panama City, Fla.

Panama City (Fla.) Airport officials must be pinching themselves to see if they’re dreaming.

Move over turbos, the hydrotug is coming

Hydrogenics, a Toronto design and manufacturing firm, has won a contract to supply 65-kilowatt hydrogen fuel cells for aircraft tow tractors.
FBOs

FBO calculates profits by the truckload

No, Craig and Kim Powell, co-owners of Colorado Aviation in Colorado Springs, Colo., are not hauling in cash by the truckload.
Airports

FAA to buy airport development rights

An FAA program to buy private airport development rights is targeting “troubled airports” that the agency believes could be at risk for sale to developers
FBOs

ACM building terminal and hangar at San Jose

ACM Aviation has broken ground on a new, 17,000-sq-ft executive terminal with a 60,000-sq-ft hangar on the west side of Mineta San Jose International Airpo
FBOs

FirstAir FBO expands beyond New York State

FirstAir, an FBO with two existing locations, is adding its third branch at Addison Airport serving Dallas.
FBOs

Guardian Jet center to open new terminal

Construction has begun on the new executive terminal at the Guardian Jet Center at Ontario International Airport, Ontario, Calif.
Airports

New York Airport wins environmental approval

The environmental management system at New York’s Westchester County Airport (HPN) in White Plains has become the third such airport entity in the U.S.
Airports

New condo-style hangars at AUS

Aviation Development Group (ADG), in affiliation with Signature Flight Support, has announced plans to construct a private, master-planned hangar community
Maintenance and Modifications

JetCorp upgrades maintenance status

JetCorp, at Spirit of St.