Galaxy FBO recently welcomed the opening of its newest location in Texas at Addison Airport (ADS) in Dallas, joining FBO bases at Houston William P. Hobby Airport (HOU) and Conroe/North Houston Regional (CXO). The company also operates the private-use-only Black Forest Heliport in The Woodlands ...
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AR – The Texarkana Regional Airport (TXK) has been making a concerted effort and doing extra work in recent years to become more accessible and attract more passengers, and those efforts paid off when the airport was named the 2022 Arkansas Airport of the Year ...
LA – The Louisiana Tech University’s Department of Professional Aviation has a storied history going back to its establishment in 1967. The department is accredited by the Aviation Accreditation Board International (AABI), offering two 4-year degrees as well as a FAA Part 141 flight school, ...
TX – Atlantic Aviation acquired Textar Aviation at the Dallas Love Airport (DAL). Atlantic Aviation has been looking to operate at the Dallas Love Field Airport for some time now since DAL is one of the country’s top three busiest business aviation airports. This acquisition ...
TX – Rise Aviation formally opened its new FBO terminal at North Texas Regional Airport (GYI) in Denison on August 1 in a new two-story, 10,720 SF building that was planned when the facility was known as the Lake Texoma Jet Center. Rise provides a ...
LA – The Port of South Louisiana Executive Regional Airport (APS) sits alongside the Mississippi River roughly halfway between New Orleans and Baton Rouge in Reserve, Louisiana. The Port is one of the largest tonnage port districts in the U.S., and the airport’s business travel ...
OK – Claremont Regional Airport (GCM) near Tulsa, Oklahoma, recently completed construction of a 12,783 SF building containing 10 nested T-hangars. According to Meggie Froman-Knight, Executive Director of the Claremore Industrial and Economic Development Authority (CIEDA), all ten were leased with paid deposits within an ...
OK – The Aviation Sciences Institute at Southeastern Oklahoma State University recently took delivery of a simulator that will be used in its newly expanded curriculum that now includes airliner training. A team from Newmarket, Ontario, Canada-based Flightdeck Solutions (FDS) installed and set up the ...
MS – The Natchez-Adams County Airport/Hardy-Anders Field (HEZ) in Natchez, Mississippi, has no hangar space available and, as a result, is forced to turn away customers wishing to hangar their aircraft and add them to the waiting list. With 24-based aircraft on the field and ...
LA – Aviation Exteriors Louisiana has specialized in the niche market of painting commercial aircraft for over thirty years at its base at Acadiana Regional Airport (ARA) near New Iberia, Louisiana. After focusing exclusively on commercial aircraft for the first decade, the company expanded operations ...