For all of you among our audience who are aircraft owners or operators, unless you’ve been living in a cave the past 7 years you know about the rapidly-approaching deadline to equip your aircraft with at least ADS-B Out. ADS-B is a core element of the FAA’s NextGen modernization program, and the deadline for implementation [...]
On Sunday December 10, nearly 30 aircraft will depart in 7 groups from Signature Flight Support at Centennial Airport (APA) in Englewood, Colorado. All together, those aircraft will be transporting thousands of pounds of donated toys and non-perishable food to Greeley (GXY), Fort Morgan (FMM), Burlington (ITR), Las Animas (7V9), Pueblo (PUB), Alamosa (ALS), and [...]
On October 10 – 12, Hangar Network attended the National Business Aviation Association’s annual Business Aviation Convention and Exhibition (BACE) in Las Vegas, NV. Iver Retrum, one of HN’s principals, is the chairman of the NBAA Regional Groups Committee and at this year’s BACE he presented the Pacific Northwest Business Aviation Association (PNBAA) with NBAA’s [...]
A newly-revised estimate issued by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) on the budgetary impact of privatization of air traffic control (ATC) is not pretty, and adds to the already numerous and significant reasons to oppose H.R. 2997, the 21st Century Aviation Innovation, Reform, and Reauthorization (AIRR) Act. The August 15 CBO report shows that the [...]
As we’ve discussed here and in the newsletter (see link below), the Trump administration fully supports privatizing the Air Traffic Control (ATC) system in the US. ATC is currently managed by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) under the authority granted to it by Congress, but that responsibility would be transferred, along with all its personnel, [...]
ATC Privatization is off the table… for now
This post began as another missive expressing opposition to the federal government’s proposal to “privatize” the nation’s air traffic control system (ATC). However, today’s developments have rendered the argument moot. At least for the time being. In case you somehow missed the story, which has been on the radar for decades but reached a higher [...]