VA – A remote tower designed by Saab began operating at Leesburg Executive Airport in 2015. The program has been operational for 10 hours per day since then, recording more than 75,000 takeoffs and landings at the airport annually. In September 2021, the FAA conducted ...
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PA – Volatus Infrastructure, LLC (Limited Liability Company) has signed an agreement with Bellefonte Airport in Centre County, Pennsylvania, to build a public-use FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) compliant electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) vertiport with up to eight landing pads including a charging station ...
NY – On Tuesday, Blade Air Mobility announced the successful completion of a historic test flight of BETA’s ALIA-250 EVA, an electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft, at the Westchester County Airport in White Plains, New York. This was the first demonstration of an ...
MD – Former Fairchild Aircraft factory worker John Young’s 100th birthday was approaching, and he had one wish: to fly. Young spent more than 20 years on the assembly line in the Fairchild Aircraft factory in Hagerstown, Maryland. “I was laid off about three times,” ...
MD – Salisbury Regional Airport is expected to grow with significant investment in infrastructure in the pipeline for the airport. APN Affiliate, Sarah McNelis sat down with Assistant Airport Director, Chris Davidson to discuss the current and future plans for the airport. Salisbury Regional Airport ...
NJ – FlightServ, which began operations at New Jersey’s Trenton Mercer Airport (KTTN) in 2017 as one of two FBOs, has opened its permanent facility there. The $30 million, 22-acre complex features a two-story 30,000 sq/ft terminal with passenger and pilot lounges, shower facilities, tenant ...
CT – The first phase of a $40 million expansion and makeover project at Waterbury-Oxford Airport has benefited from Connecticut’s relatively snow-free winter thus far. Although fill work has stopped for the winter at the airport owned and operated by the Connecticut Airport Authority, construction of ...
NY – New York state and city legislators said Friday that they plan to introduce legislation to permanently close New York City’s West 30th Street heliport (KJRA) in response to Gov. Kathy Hochul’s veto of the “Stop the Chop” act. In her veto message, Hochul explained, ...
VA – Only one Boeing XB-15 bomber prototype was built, yet it gave the giant aircraft manufacturer design ideas that shaped the famous B-17 and Model 314 Clipper airplanes. The Boeing XB-15 (Model 294), originally known by the nomenclature XBLR-1, or Experimental Bomber, Long Range, ...
ME – The only commercial airline headquartered in Maine has stopped flying — and Elite Airways executives aren’t talking about plans for the company, including whether it will resume service between the Northeast and Florida. Until recently, Elite offered low-cost flights to and from Portland International Jetport with stops at White ...