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2025-10-06 01:43Coleman A. Young Municipal Gets a Motor City Makeover
Coleman A. Young Municipal Gets a Motor City Makeover – Airport Improvement With crumbling infrastructure, cemeteries on three sides and its Airport Layout Plan lying dormant for decades, Coleman A. Young Municipal Airport (DET) in Detroit had pretty much been left for dead. Lately, however, there are promising signs of a resurrection thanks to local -
2025-02-10 10:141 dead, 4 injured after jets collide at Scottsdale Airport
The incident occurred after the landing gear of a jet failed. By Clara McMichael, T. Michelle Murphy, Laryssa Demkiw, and Jennifer Watts February 10, 2025, 7:22 PM One person is dead and four others are injured after a Bombardier Learjet 35A veered off the runway after landing at Scottsdale Airport and crashed into a Gulfstream -
2023-11-01 23:37Centennial Airport is Leading the Way With Unleaded Avgas
Author: Jodi Richards Published in: November-December 2023 In early May, Centennial Airport (APA) in Englewood, CO, became that state’s first airport to offer unleaded aviation gas for piston-engine aircraft. The active general aviation facility is even offsetting associated costs for early adopters who buy the more expensive eco-friendly alternative. Executive Director Mike Fronapfel says that -
2023-08-11 00:08
Wing walking flights in Sequim draw lawsuit and FAA investigation
By Dominic Gates Seattle Times aerospace reporter In Sequim, on the north coast of the Olympic Peninsula, you can sign up for a daring thrill ride available nowhere else in America: Mason Wing Walking will take you up in an airplane to about 3,500 feet where you can climb out of the open cockpit and -
2023-07-04 19:36Flightradar24.com n249cb flight track
The difficulty for us is the fact that this was almost 2.5 hours of leaded gas expended simply for entertainment value. -
2023-04-24 15:11Washington Among Leaders for Single-Engine Plane Accidents
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2023-04-12 23:39Not-so-tiny Dancer: pilot draws a ballerina
In early April a pilot in North Carolina made their contribution to the growing body of sky art with a ballerina west of Raleigh-Durham. The pilot was operating a Piper PA-28-161 from the Wings of Carolina Flying Club out of Raleigh Executive Jetport. The flight path took about an hour to complete for a total flight time -
2022-09-01 02:18
General Aviation Moves Closer to an Unleaded Future
The FAA’s approval of the use of G100UL fuel in all piston aircraft directly addresses the industry’s long-standing goal of finding solutions that can be used for the entire GA piston fleet. Related To: Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA) The FAA on Sept. 1 signed on supplemental type certificates to allow General Aviation Modifications Inc.’s -
2022-08-30 19:00
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! Yes, that pilot really did just flip off Whatcom County
BY DAVID RASBACH UPDATED AUGUST 30, 2022 3:36 PM Flight tracking data shows a pilot traced the image of a hand raising a middle finger over Whatcom County Monday morning, Aug. 30. FLIGHTAWARE.COM Courtesy to The Bellingham Herald Ever have one of those days — especially on a Monday? One where you just wanna flip -
2022-08-24 00:28Private Jets: can the super rich supercharge zero-emissions aviation?
© 2021 European Federation for Transport and Environment AISBL To cite this study Transport & Environment (2021). Private jets: can the super rich supercharge zero-emission aviation? For more information, contact: Valentin SIMON Data Analyst Transport & Environment valentin.simon@transportenvironment.org Mobile: +32 (0)496 89 65 67 Square de Meeûs, 18 – 2nd floor | B-1050 | Brussels | Belgium www.transportenvironment.org | @transenv | fb: Transport & Environment Acknowledgment The authors kindly acknowledge the European Business Aviation Association (EBAA) for providing the private aviation traffic data as the basis of much of the analysis performed for this report. We also thank Brandon Graver from the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) for his peer review and valuable feedback. The report was produced with the generous financial support of Benjamin Firmenich. The findings and views put forward in this publication are the sole responsibility of the authors listed above. The same applies to any potential factual errors or methodological flaws. A study by 2 Executive Summary Aviation’s climate impact is disproportionate and growing fast. But it is caused by a very small group of people. Just 1% of people cause 50% of global aviation emissions. This report exposes the outsized role played by the super rich hopping on private jets for super short distances. European private jet CO2 emissions have soared in recent years, with a 31% increase between 2005 and 2019, faster than commercial aviation emissions. Covid-19 put a temporary halt to that growth, but compared to commercial aviation, it was able to…