After losing her house to a fire, Jo Ann Ussery had a peculiar idea: to live in an airplane. She bought an old Boeing 727 destined for the scrapyard, had it shipped to a plot of land she already owned, and spent six months renovating, ...
Aviation News
CA – New partnerships at Livermore Municipal Airport hope to bring to the area a new era of aviation, known as advanced air mobility (AAM), which could circumvent Bay Area traffic and quiet the skies over the Tri-Valley. AAM refers to the group of aircraft ...
PA – Volatus Infrastructure, LLC (Limited Liability Company) has signed an agreement with Bellefonte Airport in Centre County, Pennsylvania, to build a public-use FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) compliant electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) vertiport with up to eight landing pads including a charging station ...
NY – On Tuesday, Blade Air Mobility announced the successful completion of a historic test flight of BETA’s ALIA-250 EVA, an electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft, at the Westchester County Airport in White Plains, New York. This was the first demonstration of an ...
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,” ...
AZ – The combination of the Super Bowl and the Phoenix Open isn’t just causing major upheaval to the region on the ground — it’s also causing traffic in the air with a high volume of private planes. Throughout the week, metro Phoenix airports will see ...
NV – Officials with the growing private airline industry see their sleek jets as the eventual replacement to casino company corporate jets that fly big-spending customers to the Strip. It’s already happening on a small scale. On many weekends, limousine drivers working for Strip resorts ...
MS – The construction of a new $1.2 million jet engine run-up pad at the Stennis International Airport in Kiln is set to begin on Monday, with the project’s completion set for the end of April 2023. The locally funded pad, estimated to cost $1.2 ...
TX – On a rainy October day, a Bell Textron 407GXi helicopter lifted off from the Hillwood Alliance Texas Flight Test Center in Fort Worth, Texas. It began making its way to the University of North Texas Discovery Park in Denton, about 25 miles away. ...
OH – Sierra Nevada Corp.’s extensive new aircraft maintenance and overhaul facility officially has opened at the Dayton International Airport, helping to bring about 150 new jobs. But local leaders and economic development officials said work on a second facility is underway, and there’s space ...