5/9/2008 - Master Pilot Award and FAA Safety Seminar Coming to Wetumpka Airport
FAA announced that Mr. Peter A. Land will receive the Wright Brothers "Master Pilot" award, May 15, 2008. Join members from the local EAA Chapter 822, the United Flying Octogenarian Assn, and an active diverse group of pilots and owners based at the Wetumpka Airport in celebration. Including this upcoming honor, Wetumpka will be the home to seven honorees of the Master Pilot Award.
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5/8/2008 - Alabama’s Northrop Grumman’s Tanker Program Moving Up
WASHINGTON DC- Reuters is reporting that funding for Northrop Grumman's contract to build America's next generation of aerial refueling tankers has cleared another procedural hurdle in Congress. According to Reuters, the House of Representative's Air and Land Forces panel - a subcommittee of the House Armed Services Committee - "made no recommendation that would interfere with a $35 billion Air Force plan to acquire 179 aerial refueling aircraft built by Northrop Grumman Corp.
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5/8/2008 - Jet Shipments Soar, Pistons Down Says GAMA
WASHINGTON, DC, May 8, 2008 - Today, the General Aviation Manufacturers Association (GAMA) announced first quarter shipment and billings figures. Total industry billings were up 16.1 percent to $5.3 billion, an all-time high for the first quarter, while total shipments were down by 7.5 percent.
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5/7/2008 - Up Coming Alabama Aviation Events This Weekend
Scottsboro Annual Airport Days Fly In -4A6 features a stop by the historic American Airlines DC-3 Flagship starting May 8 through Saturday May 10 th . Take a tour or a ride onboard the restored pride of the fleet. Enjoy the sight of military style Yak formation fly bys and aircraft static displays.
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5/7/2008 - Rain Drenches Fly-in, Not Spirits
Reprint Permission Courtesy of the Prattville Progress , by Griffin Pritchard- Saturday's Experimental Aircraft Association Fly-in spent a large part of the morning grounded as pilots and airport personnel waited and watched storms roll across the state of Alabama. But that didn't stop participants from having a good time.
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5/7/2008 - EAA AirVenture 2008 NOTAM Available Now via Online and Print Formats
EAA AVIATION CENTER, OSHKOSH, Wis. - The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has released the EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2008 Notice to Airmen (NOTAM), featuring arrival and departure procedures for the Experimental Aircraft Association's 56th annual fly-in, "The World's Greatest Aviation Celebration," July 28-August 3 at Wittman Regional Airport in Oshkosh.
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5/6/2008 - Back to the Drawing Board as Senate Fails to Move FAA Bill
WASHINGTON DC- Action today on the Senate floor saw frustration in the faces and voices of lawmakers who have spent so much effort to get a compromised FAA Reauthorization Bill on the move. Last week there was hope that a bipartisan bill that met the FAA modernization funding bill objectives and satisfied both the airlines and general aviation could make it to a vote today.
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5/6/2008 - 100th Anniversary of the First Airline Passenger
It all began 100 years ago, on May 14, 1908, at the now Wright Brothers National Memorial location, when Charles Furnas, the Wright brothers' mechanic, became the world's first airplane passenger. Not only was he the first passenger ever carried on an airplane, he was also one of the very few people to fly with both Wilbur and Orville Wright.
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5/6/2008 - EAA AIRVENTURE Oshkosh 2008 to Recognize '30,000 and Climbing' Homebuilt Aircraft
One new homebuilt aircraft will be named the honorary 30,000th at Oshkosh- EAA AVIATION CENTER, OSHKOSH, Wis. - EAA AirVenture Oshkosh, "The World's Greatest Aviation Celebration," will be recognizing many important aviation achievements when the 56th annual edition of the event takes place July 28-August 3 at Wittman Regional Airport in Oshkosh.
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5/5/2008 - Shelby Announces Nearly $2 Million for Alabama Airports
Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senator Richard Shelby (R-Ala.), a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, today announced that the Department of Transportation has awarded $1,994,458 to the State of Alabama for infrastructure improvements at six local airports. This funding will be distributed among the following six airports: · Albertville Regional -Thomas J Brumlik Field to acquire land for aircraft approaches · Greensboro Municipal to acquire land for development · Centre-Piedmont-Cherokee County Regional to conduct a taxiway and to conduct a miscellaneous study · Greensboro Municipal to install fencing around its perimeter and remove obstructions · Bessemer for taxiway lighting rehabilitation · St Elmo to install fencing around its perimeter and remove obstructions "A strong transportation infrastructure is critical to attracting new businesses and industry to the state of Alabama," said Shelby.
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