Latest from Mark Phelps

Gregory Campbell, executive director of the Shenandoah Valley Regional Airport Commission, has high hopes for the airport-operated Avitat FBO.

Signature Flight Support has acquired the former PrivatAir terminal at Paris Le Bourget Airport and has broken ground on a major refurbishment of its Bosto

One year ago this month, the FAA said it would take legal action against the city of Chicago because officials failed to notify the agency 30 days before c

Dial the number for Million Air at New Orleans Lakefront Airport (NEW) and there is nothing on the other end.

In the wake of Hurricane Katrina the surge in auto-fuel prices–with the per-gallon increases lagging just hours behind the rising flood waters–was at the f

The late Randy Kennedy, who wrote a chapter or two in the book for corporate pilots in the U.S., once said, “Don’t tell anyone, but you can teach monkeys t

As Hurricane Katrina blew into world headlines for the human misery it caused on the U.S.

Decades ago, AIN published one pilot’s mathematical formula for calculating the conditions that made fuel tankering viable.

Alaska Aerofuel of Fairbanks, Alaska (PAFA), cut the ribbon on a new hangar last month, with on-site U.S.

Panorama Flight Service at Westchester County Airport (HPN), in White Plains, N.Y., reports it has reconfigured and refurbished its lobby, expanded its pas

The city of San Diego took over Brown Field, a former naval air station, in 1962.

For co-owner and general manager of Aspen Base Operation Cliff Runge, it’s been quite a run.

The Los Angeles area is not known for its friendliness to business aviation.

TAG Aviation, in a joint venture with European company SOKO, has opened a new business aviation handling facility at Torrejon Airport in Madrid.

Just as with most elements of aircraft ownership, a good cleaning, inside and out, is much more involved than the average person could possibly imagine.

Apparently, it’s just a time-honored myth that the Inuit language of native Alaskans has as many as 400 different words covering all forms of frozen precip

A spokesman for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (PANYNJ) told AIN its chairman, Anthony Coscia, would use “whatever means necessary,”

To paraphrase the sentiments on a popular plaque, FBO owners in these changing economic times need the courage to change business practices that need to be

According to aviation professionals responding to this year’s AIN FBO survey, Piedmont Hawthorne at Washington Dulles International Airport (IAD) is

San Diego County, which has jurisdiction over the McClellan-Palomar Airport (CRQ), is currently updating its FAR Part 150 noise compatibility plan for the

In March, TAC Air acquired Knox Air at Knoxville (Tenn.) McGhee Tyson Airport (TYS).

Jet Aviation Bedford (BED), at Hanscom Field just outside Boston, has completed a major renovation project.

Rifton Aviation, the upstate New York FBO formerly owned and operated by the Bruderhof religious community, has been sold.

Signature Flight Support and Avfuel further solidified their business relationship with an agreement last month.

John and Martha King, co-chairmen and owners of San Diego, Calif.-based King Schools, are best known among owner-pilots for their folksy flight-training vi

It was 25 years ago last month that New York Yankees team captain Thurman Munson was killed in the crash of his Cessna Citation I.

Fifteen years ago, one of my first assignments for AIN was to travel to the NATA Convention in Las Vegas.

Business aircraft passengers and crews arriving at Hector International Airport (FAR), Fargo, N.

David Price, chairman and CEO of American Airports (AAC, which hasoperated the Supermarine FBO at Santa Monica Airport in California for several years), ad

The recently merged business-aviation entity now known as Garrett/Piedmont Hawthorne/Associated officially opened its new 18,000-sq-ft, $1.2 million hangar