The Florence One School District’s Advantage Academy launched its brand new Aviation Program in December 2021 when two local pilots took several students on discovery flights from Florence Regional Airport (FLO) in Florence, South Carolina. Thanks to a $339,000 grant from the Federal Aviation Administration ...
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Rapidly-growing fractional ownership and charter provider Volato announced in early January it had placed an order for 15 HondaJets to add to its fleet. Volato started up in September 2021 with a single, four-passenger HondaJet Elite S, then added two more in December and currently ...
When the Metropolitan Knoxville Airport Authority (MKAA) embarked on the reconstruction of runway 5L/23R at McGhee Tyson Airport (TYS), they soon realized it would grow into the largest component of the even larger Airfield Modernization Plan they had envisioned. Not only would the runway be ...
Northeast State Community College’s Aviation Technology program has moved into its new home in a hangar at Tri-Cities Airport (TRI) in Bristol/Johnson/Kingsport, Tennessee. Classes and training operations moved in last month and the Department Head, Richard Blevins, expects it to be totally finished and furnished ...
Avionics software firm Avilution cut the ribbon on its new hangar-lab facility at Huntsville International Airport (HSV) in November. The new $3 million facility includes 6,000 sq ft of labs and offices as well as 7,000 sq ft of hangar space. Serial aviation entrepreneur, founder ...
Startup Hermeus Corporation’s structural prototype hypersonic aircraft was recently unveiled at the company’s engine test site at Dekalb-Peachtree Airport (PDK) in Atlanta. The prototype was purpose-built as a way to get the team to go through a full-scale manufacturing process under conditions anticipated during the ...
Stevens Aerospace and Defense Systems is building a new Maintenance & Repair facility at the Smyrna Airport (MQY) in Smyrna, Tennessee. The new facility will consist of 57,000 square feet of operational space followed in a second phase by a 40,000 square foot hangar. The ...
In August, the Southern Museum of Flight in Birmingham, Alabama, announced that in the spring of 2022 it will begin offering dual enrollment in aviation and aerospace programs for high school students as a branch campus of the Alabama Community College System. The Museum will ...
To mark the start of a $26 million investment to serve the Tampa Bay area, Sheltair in October broke ground on its new 100,000-square-foot hangar and office project at Tampa International Airport (TPA). The region is seeing rapid growth in aviation and aircraft operations, and ...
Ross Aviation, based in Denver, Colorado, has acquired Stuart Jet Center at Witham Field (SUA) in Stuart, FL. The facility, rebranded as Ross Aviation at Stuart Jet Center, encompasses a 53-acre leasehold with 15 acres of secure and lighted ramp area, and upwards of 340,000 ...