Challenge Air helps children with special needs build confidence and self-esteem through the gift of flight. Over 3,500 volunteers support “Fly Days”, helping children with special needs realize their full potential. Challenge Air hosted a very successful September Fly Day in Kansas City on September ...
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Aircraft crash sites are common destinations for scuba divers, but you don’t need fancy equipment and rigorous training to combine physical activity and a look at history – a number of air crash sites can be part of your hiking adventures in the U.S. and ...
The Summer Olympic Games come to Los Angeles in 2028 as the city partners with Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) organizations to ensure AAM is part of the city’s transportation offerings during the Games. Eric Garcetti, Mayor of Los Angeles, believes implementing AAM at the Olympics ...
NV – Nevada-based aerospace company Sierra Nevada announce that is it investing over $200 million to produce two prototypes of its RAPCON-X intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) aircraft. The announcement comes as the US Army continues to search for a replacement for its aging fleet ...
AZ – A lack of hangar space at the Chandler Municipal Airport has led to safety issues for the airport. According to the Airport Manager Ryan Reeves he sent one of his employees out to make sure all aircraft were tied down properly before a ...
NM – The first tenant to the county jetport in Santa Teresa, New Mexico was approved by Doña Ana County. Burrell Aviation plans to construct a new air cargo handling facility, cold storage, distribution center, and aircraft maintenance hangars at the Doña Ana County International ...
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 ...
ND – The John D. Odegard School of Aerospace Sciences at the University of North Dakota (UND) is recognized as one of the premier collegiate aviation programs in the U.S., but for nearly 30 years its flight operations have been conducted out of a former ...