Category: Fixed-Base Operators

BOISE — Jackson Jet, based in Boise, announced in a press release it has broadened investment in the Phoenix market and in its charter and management offerings with the purchase of Swift Aircraft Management. With the purchase, Jackson Jet has expanded its charter fleet and management capabilities with the addition of an Embraer Legacy 600...

Best Of The Web: The Death Of An Airplane You can tie down an airplane as securely as you want, but Ma Nature has ways of defeating your best efforts. One day a long time ago a local Super Cub, well tied down and facing south (90° to the prevailing winter westerlies), ended up across...

FLYING HIGH—Channel Islands Aviation has been bought by CloudNine. Both businesses are based at Camarillo Airport. Courtesy photo Ron Rasak and Nick Martino were constructing CloudNine’s executive hangar development at Camarillo Airport when the longtime aviation enthusiasts realized there was an opportunity to “fill a gap.” Channel Islands Aviation, one of four fixed-base operators on...

Project Aviation this week filed for a Circuit Court injunction to stop the town government from allowing a second company to begin work as a fixed-base operator at Leesburg Executive Airport. ProJet has served as a FBO at the airport since 2010. This month, a second business, Kuhn Jet Center, also is expected to begin...

Bombardier today celebrated the grand opening of its expanded service in Singapore, which quadruples the size of the original center the Canadian airframer opened in 2014 and signals the pending openings of a trio of other expanded company-owned service centers. Under the $85 million expansion, the service center at Seletar Aerospace Park now encompasses 290,000...

A Physicians Air Transport King Air 200 medevac aircraft was hit by a bullet while on final at Hawkins Field in Jackson, Mississippi, on Monday and local officials didn’t seem very surprised. Apparently a dispute over the city’s garbage collection contract has led to people on the ground taking potshots at passing aircraft. “I don’t...

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I noticed that a Cessna 172 had descended from the southeast onto a 45-degree entry to the left downwind for landing on Runway 18. A Piper Archer pilot reported he was on a straight final for a practice instrument approach from the north. And then a pilot flying a Diamond Twinstar that had been following...

(29 June 2022, 10:41 +07)  Embraer has inaugurated new hangars at its Sorocaba Service Center in the São Paulo countryside, doubling hangar space from 20,000 sqm to 40,000 sqm. The unit, which completed eight years of operation in March 2022, now has four hangars, three of which are dedicated to maintenance, repair and component overhaul...

Flying to Oshkosh’s Wittman Regional Airport is a dream for thousands of pilots, and for good reason. It’s a challenge, an adventure, and brings you straight to the center of the AirVenture action. But if the chaos and occasional calamity of flying to Oshkosh isn’t on your bucket list, there are options. Nearby airports in...

PS, the private terminal service for airline passengers, is adding a second location, this one at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, the busiest U.S. airport with over 75 million passengers in 2021. The move comes as Delta Air Lines, which operates a hub there, said it is restricting access to SkyClub lounges. According to The Atlanta...

Modern Aviation has completed its US$25 million, two-phase development project and FBO renovation at Boeing Field/King County International Airport in Seattle, Washington. Phase one involved building a 40,000 square foot hangar and phase two included a 24,500 square foot hangar with a 7,500 square foot office building. In 2021, Modern Aviation started a full renovation...