Tag: Airport

Garden City Airport Aids in Piper HALO Safety System Autoland Certification

Piper Aircraft, Inc. announced this week that the Garden City Airport located in Garden City, Kansas, played a key role in the certification flight test for the M600/SLS HALO safety system’s Garmin Auto-land feature. The airport was selected in 2019 as the ideal location for a live activation of ...

Avflight expands FBOs as it moves into Canada’s Winnipeg Airport

Avflight has expanded its chain of FBOs, changing the Kelly Western Jet Centre—at Winnipeg James Armstrong Richardson International Airport—to Avflight Winnipeg, marking the company’s first venture into Canada and bringing its number of full-service FBOs to 21 across North America and Europe....

Ross Aviation acquires Island Air FBOs located on the Cayman Islands

Ross Aviation has successfully acquired Island Air Fixed Based Operator's (FBOs). With locations at the Owens Roberts International Airport on Grand Cayman as well as Charles Kirkconnell International Airport on Cayman Brac, both in the British West Indies. The FBO on Grand Cayman, conveniently ...

Menzies Macau say goodbye to managing director Raymond Lo

Raymond Lo, managing director of Menzies Macau, has reached the end of a long and successful chapter in his life, as he leaves his position within the company to emigrate to Canada. Arriving at Menzies almost two decades ago, from a senior accountancy position with Phillips, Mr Lo served as finance...

TAG Farnborough Airport launches TAG Flying Scholarship 2019

TAG Farnborough Airport will grant the scholarship to one person in order to support individuals who may not have the resources to gain flying experience and ultimately achieve their Private Pilot’s Licence (PPL). The Flying Scholarship is part of the airport’s Aviation to Education program. ...

Flying Colours takes up another hangar at St Louis Airport

Flying Colours Corp.—the North American maintenance, repair, overhaul and completions company—has taken up residence in its fifth hangar at the Spirit of St Louis Airport. The existing building is ideally located next door to the KSUS runway, adding a much-needed 30,000 square feet to the St Lo...

Record-breaking year for air traffic movements at TAG Farnborough Airport

TAG Farnborough Airport has announced a record year for air traffic movements with reports of the highest ever number of total annual movements in 2018, surpassing the previous record from 2007 by 8.2 per cent. For the full year of 2018, TAG Farnborough Airport saw a year-on-year increase in air tr...

Campaign to save Fairoaks airport urges govt to step in

Fairoaks 2020, the volunteer campaign group fighting plans to close Fairoaks Airport to create 1,000 homes on its Green Belt site, has been swift to galvanise support from the 177-member-strong All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) of MPs and Lords for General Aviation.  The APPG, led by Grant Shapp...

Gloucestershire Airport finally completes ‘major’ refurbishment

'The sky is the limit' for Gloucestershire Airport after its long-awaited major refurbishment from the County’s leading design and interior specialists reached its final destination. Whether it’s for business or leisure, visitors to Gloucestershire Airport will now be greeted with a modern ne...

Firm breaks ground on Texas corporate hangar

Western LLC has broken ground on its latest aviation development - a corporate aviation hangar - at the San Antonio International Airport. The redevelopment of the 8.87-acre Hawker Beechcraft parcel located off John Cape Road will feature seven hangars totaling 100,280 SF ranging in size from 12,...

London Biggin Hill welcomes JetWash residency

London Biggin Hill has announced a specialist aircraft cleaning company, JetWash, is opening an office in the airport’s new Terminal Hangar 2. JetWash, which offers a wide range of valet services for every type of executive jet, will be one of the first tenants to take up residence in the hang...

New Hawaii FBO coming ‘late 2019’

A new Hawaiian FBO at Ellison Onizuka International Airport is set to open in late 2019, according to its operator, Kona Jet Center. The new FBO - touted as the 'spirit of aloha' - is aiming to 'redefine general aviation' on the Hawaiian location of Kailua, Kona. On the company's website, it i...

Strasbourg Airport proposes business aviation developments

Strasbourg Airport has put forward a proposal to develop its business aviation infrastructure. The airport, in a proposal document, noted "Strasbourg Airport is strategically located, both economically and diplomatically, in the centre of the EU. Serving the European capital and the 21 Europe...

South Carolina FBO competes $14.5m hanger instillation

Cerulean Aviation, who operate the FBO at Greenville-Spartanburg International Airport in the US state of South Carolina, has recently completed a $14.5m project to install a pair of new heated hangars. The installation includes a 20,000 square foot corporate hangar which is currently leased by M...

Illinois airport breaks ground on capital improvement projects

Source: Duty Free Information. Abraham Lincoln Capital Airport in Springfield, Illinois has broke ground on new capital improvement projects totaling an investment over $10 million. General and business aviation facilities are due to be upgraded or expanded at the airport while becoming more mod...

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