MT – Greg Mecklenburg has recently been awarded the FAA’s Wright Brothers Master Pilot Award. The award is considered the most prestigious award issued by the FAA to pilots who are certified under 14 CFR Part 61. Aviators must have a record of safety and ...
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CO – The Denver International Airport (DEN) has issued a construction alert for the Great Hall Project. The second phase of the Great Hall Project involves the construction of a new security checkpoint in the northwest corner of Level 6, along with a new triple ...
The Boise Airport (BOI) has started construction on two new parking garages as part of the airport’s Upgrade Airport Expansion Project. The airport will construct a new public parking garage as well as an employee parking garage. The airport anticipates construction to take an estimated ...
The Colorado Springs Airport (COS) announced receiving the “Best in Colorado” airport category award from the Colorado Asphalt Pavement Association. COS was awarded the airport’s 2021 pavement rehabilitation project on Runway 17R/35L. This month, the airport received the award at the Colorado Asphalt Pavement Association’s ...
Spirit Airlines announced it will now serve the state of Utah for the first time with service to Salt Lake City International Airport (SLC). Spirit is the first domestic airline to announce operations at SLC’s newly unveiled airport. SLC recently underwent a $4.5 billion airport ...
We first notified readers in September of the upcoming closure of the runway at Jackson Hole Airport (JAC) in Jackson, Wyoming, for reconstruction and here we provide an update on the 3-Phase project. Phase 1 was completed in October and included the installation of drainage, ...
The court battle between Ogden-Hinckley Airport (OGD) and the Ogden Regional Airport Association heated up a notch in November when attorneys for Ogden City filed two documents with the court – one requesting the court to rule immediately on the city’s motion to dismiss the ...
On December 30, 2021, the wind-whipped Marshall fire tore through several suburban communities northwest of Denver. Two people died as the fire raced through 6,000 acres of bone-dry vegetation and more than 1,000 homes were destroyed. Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport (BJC) sits less than two ...
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) activated ten new weather cameras in Colorado and two in Montana. The ten cameras in Colorado were installed at mountainous airports in Aspen (ASE), Durango (DRO), Eagle (EGE), Gunnison (GUC), Hayden (HDN), Leadville (LXV), Rifle (RIL), Telluride (TEX), and Walden ...
In October Greenwich AeroGroup’s subsidiary, Western Aircraft opened a new 53,000 sq ft hangar at Boise Air Terminal (BOI) in Boise, Idaho, representing the completion of the first phase of a $17 million expansion of its MRO facility. Western now occupies an 18-acre footprint comprising ...