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,” ...
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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 ...
MD – Washington Executive Airport, also known as Hyde Field, never really recovered from the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. The final day for aircraft owners and businesses to clear out was November 30, under a bankruptcy court ruling. The exodus followed two decades ...
PA – In recognizing that the holiday season is one of the busiest traveling-wise, Hawaiian Islands was curious about which terminals induced the most tears of frustration. So, they analyzed over 1,500 reviews on Google for hundreds of airports worldwide and found the percentage of ...
ME – An astonishing investment planned by a startup company at the former Loring Air Force Base could come with promises from large airlines to buy its cleaner fuel even before the technology has been tested at scale. To say DG Fuels’ plans are ambitious ...