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GA – The Middle Georgia Regional Airport has planned upgrades, like a new two-story corporate terminal building with conference rooms, restaurants, and gathering spaces. They are also planning to build a new air traffic tower. In addition, Tuesday morning, they broke ground for their runway ...
GA – Sheltair Aviation has announced its newest upcoming FBO location at Gwinnett County Airport northeast of Atlanta, Georgia. Gwinnett County selected Sheltair in a competitive process based upon a comprehensive $17 million investment program to improve and expand the existing facilities was proposed by ...
GA – Epps Aviation, a family-owned aviation services company at DeKalb-Peachtree Airport run by the descendants of Georgia aviation pioneer Ben Epps, is being sold to a national firm.  With a planned acquisition by SAR Trilogy Management, an aviation investment firm whose subsidiary runs Aero ...
GA – Aircraft owners and other aviation advocates recently established the Savannah Area Aviation Association (SAAA) after an airport master plan at Savannah/Hilton Head International Airport (KSAV) in Georgia left some operators scrambling for hangar space, NBAA reported.  The master plan included a Southeast Quadrant ...
NC – Boom Supersonic, the company building the world’s fastest airliner, kicked off construction of its Overture Super factory today in Greensboro, North Carolina. The Overture Super factory is a state-of-the-art manufacturing facility located on a 62-acre campus at the Piedmont Triad International Airport. This ...
GA – Gulfstream Aerospace Corp. announced today it had earned four National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) Sustainable Flight Department Accreditations. The newly established program recognizes Gulfstream for sustainability leadership across locations.  “We appreciate the partnership with NBAA to recognize our sustainability efforts,” said Mark Burns, ...
AL – Mobile’s new downtown airport terminal is officially off the ground. On Friday, Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey, retiring U.S. Sen. Richard Shelby, Mobile Mayor Sandy Stimpson, and a host of other officials broke ground on the new airport terminal. Set to open in 2025, the five-gate terminal at the Mobile Aeroplex at Brookley ...
Sheltair has relocated its corporate headquarters from Oakland Park, Florida, to the Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport.  Initially built by Sheltair in 1987, the building was fully renovated in a passion-driven project led by President Lisa Holland in collaboration with Anderson-Moore Construction Corp and architect G. ...
GA – Expanding its partnership with California-based startup Archer Aviation Inc., Stellantis NV said on Wednesday it will manufacture Archer’s Midnight, an electric vertical takeoff and landing, or eVTOL, aircraft designed to launch for the creation of an urban air taxi and mobility network. The ...
GA – Bill Gates founded Breakthrough Energy and has recently announced that its first Catalyst project funding will come in the form of a $50 million grant to Lanza Jet’s Freedom Pines Fuels sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) plant in Soperton, Georgia. Breakthrough Energy Catalyst is a unique program that ...