IA – Modern Aviation recently announced that the company has officially acquired Elliot Aviation’s FBO at the Des Moines International Airport (DSM), with maintenance, repair, and overhaul still overseen by Elliot Aviation. This investment includes 17 acres of leasehold land and high-end facilities and amenities. ...
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SD – Students in the flight training track of the Aviation Program at South Dakota State University (SDSU) can now apply for the Pilot Bridge Program, a partnership established last month between SDSU and Sun Country Airlines. The program gives students the opportunity to jump ...
IA – Duncan Aviation, a Nebraska-based jet service provider, broke ground on a $40 million expansion project at Battle Creek Executive Airport (AZO). The expansion is expected to create approximately 70 jobs which will add to its standing as among the city’s largest employers with ...
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 ...
IL – The DuPage Airport (DPA) board of commissioners and staff gathered with officials from the City of West Chicago, DuPage County, and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to cut the ribbon on a new $1.3 million state-of-the-art CBP facility. Construction was completed in ...
MO – The Northwest Missouri Regional Airport (EVU) in Maryville will be looking at plans next spring for a new community hangar that will allow for jet storage, which is currently not available at the airport. City managers said during a recent City Council meeting ...
NE – U.S. Senator Deb Fischer of Nebraska announced last month that the National Guard Bureau has committed to use its funding to pay for part of the cost of a planned reconstruction of the runway 18/36 at Lincoln Airport (LNK) in Lincoln, Nebraska. The ...
SD – Huron Regional Airport (HON) in Huron, South Dakota, in July became the seventh FBO base and tenth operating facility for Revv Aviation, a rapidly-growing provider of FBO and other general aviation services throughout the Midwest and formerly known as Carver Aero. The other ...
MN – Park Rapids Municipal Airport – Konshok Field (PKD) in Park Rapids, Minnesota, is another example in the ongoing and wide-ranging story of mid-size airports that have an unmet demand for hangar space. The Park Rapids Airport Commission learned in late July that the ...
OH – Aerospace, defense, and national security firm Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) is building a 96,000 SF aircraft maintenance, repair, and modification facility at Dayton International Airport (DAY) in Dayton, Ohio. The development is a collaboration with SD Hangar Partners, who will be performing the ...