Aviation Bussiness News

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Fargo Jet Center (FJC) has opened its new cutting-edge $25 million, 112,000 sq ft hangar and office complex at Fargo’s Hector International Airport (KFAR). The facility will also serve as the headquarters for sister company Weather Modification International (WMI), a leader in atmospheric research and weather modification services.

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Inspire

JULY 21, 2024

Months of planning, sacrifices for good weather, and no small amount of emotional and financial investment are involved. Most of them are even true!) […] The post Distinct ‘Recall’ Stearman Comes to Oshkosh first appeared on Hangar Flying. Any pilot who has flown in will tell you tales of their adventure.

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Inspire

MARCH 21, 2018

The Aviation Weather Center rolled out the Graphical Forecast for Aviation to replace the area forecast. The post Aviation Weather – Evolving for the Future first appeared on Hangar Flying.

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Inspire

APRIL 13, 2023

EAA Lifetime member Tre’ Landrum teaches some of the ins and outs of weather to a group of homeschooled students. The post Shining the Spotlight on Weather first appeared on Hangar Flying.

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Inspire

MAY 30, 2024

As warmer weather settles in throughout the Midwest, EAA chapter and flying activities ramp up. The post A Weekend of Midwest Flying first appeared on Hangar Flying. On Saturday, May 18, and Sunday, May 19, Bruce Jacobsen, EAA 1060967, of Rockford, Illinois, EAA Chapter 22, enjoyed not one, but two days filled with flying fun.

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Vintage Aviation News

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

PRESS RELEASE Naval Air Station Wildwood (NASW) Aviation Museum is excited to announce the return of its 3rd annual Christmas at the Hangar event on Saturday, November 30th from 10 am to 4 pm. The event had been on hold during the hangar’s roof replacement project which is now completed.

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Inspire

JANUARY 25, 2022

EAA Sport Aviation contributor Vic Syracuse takes us through his journey to the National Stearman Fly-In and the weather challenges he faced along the way in a recent column. The post When Weather Changes Its Mind first appeared on Hangar Flying.

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Inspire

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

The post A ‘Fowl’ Weather Day first appeared on Hangar Flying. In a recent column for EAA Sport Aviation, contributor Robert N. Rossier discusses the dangers of bird strikes and how to avoid them.

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Aviation Bussiness News

OCTOBER 9, 2024

TARMAC Aerosave has opened its fourth maintenance hangar at its Teruel site in Spain. Built in just nine months, the metal-textile hangar measures 95 metres long, 85 metres wide, and nearly 34 metres high, making it the largest of its kind globally.

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Flight Training Central

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Are hangars available if the weather becomes an issue such as frost on a cool morning or if thunderstorms develop? Are hangars available if the weather becomes an issue? Lastly, have a plan of what you will do if the weather will not let you depart as you planned. If not you may have to bring a tie-down kit along.

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Inspire

JULY 23, 2024

Sue arrived Thursday in Oshkosh after a weather delay of three days, flying her 2017 turquoise AutoGyro Cavalon, for a long trip of more than 1,000 miles from Stow, Massachusetts, to AirVenture. She […] The post From Massachusetts to Oshkosh first appeared on Hangar Flying.

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Vintage Aviation News

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Hurricane, typhoon, or cyclone hunters are specialized aircrews that fly directly into tropical storms to collect crucial weather data. Air Force Reserve’s 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Hurricane Hunters. Farnsworth of the Galveston Commercial Association.

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AV Web

OCTOBER 8, 2024

The Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA) has responded to numerous requests from members for advice on how best to prepare an aircraft for surviving extreme weather, such as the hurricanes that are savaging the U.S. AOPA offers eight bullet points for securing an aircraft parked on a tiedown.

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Plane and Pilot

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Whether calling a weather briefer on the ground or reaching out for help in an emergency, the added ability to make and receive phone calls from your headset can be invaluable. Changing weather and climate, handling chemicals like fuel and oil, and physical activities like preflighting all can introduce risk to the pilot.

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Vintage Aviation News

MAY 25, 2024

After months of meticulous preparation and overcoming various weather-related delays, the eagerly awaited day finally arrived. In 1988, a new hangar was built at the Council Bluffs Municipal Airport (CBF) including a museum and meeting room. On May 15, 2024, the PT-19, N60112, was flown to its new home in Iowa.

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Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

We didn’t have a heated hangar, but our chief instructor pointed out that, if we did, melted water could collect in the control surfaces, waiting to refreeze once the plane left the hangar and put the control surfaces out of balance. Otherwise, the standard weather forecast is “rain turning to showers, chance of sun breaks.”

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Vintage Aviation News

JULY 6, 2024

Photo via Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome] “Building army forts in the woods behind the hangars, climbing trees to load airshow pyro with my dad, playing Dogfight boardgame in real life sitting in cockpits in the hangars…my buddy in one of the other planes. Had great weather the whole way and that made it easy.

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Vintage Aviation News

DECEMBER 12, 2024

After a quick debrief, the 70-year-old Beech was pushed back into the hangar. Photo by Gary Daniels The Saturday of week 106, December 7 th , was cold with deteriorating weather as the aircraft was tugged to the tarmac for another attempt to start the right engine. Number two was shut down and they called it a day.

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Vintage Aviation News

JULY 30, 2024

Vulcan XH558 Engineering Last month’s newsletter mentioned that XH558 would be moved inside hangar 3 for a short period. The necessary maintenance work, which included raising the aircraft on jacks, was better suited to being done indoors, given the unpredictable UK weather. XH558 inside 2Excel Aviation’s Hangar 3.

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Aerotime

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

He is said to have been very hands-on with the refurbishment of the Lisa Marie, picking fabrics, finishes, and colors, and regularly visiting the hangar at Meacham Field in Fort Worth to check on progress. He demanded a conference room, private bedroom, top-of-range audio-visual systems, and the highest-end finishes on everything.

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AV Web

JANUARY 19, 2025

Cold winds, low clouds, and scurfy ice accumulations on the few hangars there indicated that not only would the groundhog see his shadow on his official day, but he would probably find himself frozen with a coating of light rime ice on his fur. Tom is one of the lucky few around here who has an insulated and heated hangar.

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Vintage Aviation News

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

However, years of exposure to weather and souvenir hunters caused significant damage to the airframe, prompting the Lacey family to remove it from display and initiate restoration efforts. By 2014, the organization had raised sufficient funds to dismantle the aircraft and move it off the pylons into a hangar. Art Lacey and his wife.

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Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

We didn’t have a heated hangar, but our chief instructor pointed out that, if we did, melted water could collect in the control surfaces, waiting to refreeze once the plane left the hangar and put the control surfaces out of balance. Otherwise, the standard weather forecast is “rain turning to showers, chance of sun breaks.”

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Flying Magazine

MAY 3, 2024

Almost as an afterthought, we told them that while we’d be busy building our hangar/apartment for the 2022-23 season, we’d come fly with them in December 2023. Soon after we landed, Jo McCaughan emailed to say that they were rejiggering the itinerary to go to Milford Sound and Fiordland on day one, thanks to a brief weather window.

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Air Facts

JUNE 5, 2024

The hangar talk was different, too. In Cambodia hangar talk would more likely be practical information shared between an informal group of pilots who called themselves the Phnom Penh Pig Pilots Association. Dad wasn’t much of a storyteller and probably was humble by pilot standards. My Fairfield Flying Club buddies are my Pig Pilots.

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Air Facts

OCTOBER 9, 2024

This particular Sunday, the weather was forecasted to be a gem of a day. Autumn weather in the Northeast is the best time to fly in my opinion; cool crisp mornings usually followed by temperatures in the mid 70’s with low humidity. Instead of a Sunday Drive, we opted for a Sunday Flight. We admired the horse farms and houses below.

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Photographic Logbook

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

Unfortunately, opportunities to get there can be few and often come down to the whimsy of weather. Weather conditions were different this time around, but the critical difference was that The Bear was flying right seat with me. I awoke that morning at 5:00 am and checked weather, squinting at ForeFlight on my phone in the dark.

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Vintage Aviation News

JUNE 2, 2024

Photo by Nick Chismar] After a few days of a break, Doc opened to excited crowds on Thursday May 9th, however Pennsylvania’s weather isn’t always the most cooperative. Friday’s weather took a turn with seemingly endless rain, but while some may have stayed home there was still a crowd lining up at the airport.

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iPad Pilot News

JULY 2, 2024

As you’d expect, there’s a full list of Exhibitors , which is searchable and identifies the location of the company’s exhibit on the Airventure grounds and hangar maps. You can also filter by product or service type, allowing you to find all the exhibitors offering aviation headsets, for example.

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Plane and Pilot

DECEMBER 30, 2024

The familiar yellow Taylorcraft is parked by a galvanized corrugated steel roof shed-style hangar. With the airplane up on blocks and tied down in the hangar, I sent Andrew a photo. Coordinating schedules and weather took almost six months. One of the hangars still stands out of line with the modern homes.

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Vintage Aviation News

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

This is especially true at Ted Stevens International Airport (ANC) in Anchorage where within the span of just 30 minutes, almost regardless of weather, you’ll see float planes of every ilk sharing the sky with 747s and C-47s. However, as we rounded a hangar we were greeted by a beautiful, albeit propless DC-3, in Ozark Airlines livery.

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Vintage Aviation News

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

These aircraft span multiple decades, from the 1940s through the 1980s, and museum guests can get an up-close look at them on both the flight deck and hangar deck. Other highlights of the USS Hornet Museum include artifacts from the Apollo Moon Mission and guided tours of the flight deck and hangar deck.

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Vintage Aviation News

JULY 1, 2024

This year’s 33rd Annual World War II Weekend took place June 7th, 8th, and 9th, and the combined near-perfect weather with fantastic air displays alongside endless encampments and reenactors. Many visitors stay at the show well after the airshow itself comes to a close as the hangar dance takes over on both Friday and Saturday nights.

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Vintage Aviation News

OCTOBER 28, 2024

The weather on the run-in to the show was very changeable with exceptionally heavy localized rain all the way up and down the eastern states, and notable cloudbursts and varying volumes of rain at Temora on the Thursday and Friday. Warbirds Downunder (WDU) returns for the first time since 2018, the long gap caused by the Covid pandemic.

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Air Facts

AUGUST 5, 2024

A friend reminds you of a couple additional nuggets of due diligence to be reckoned with—a hangar and insurance. Luckily, your friend just so happens to have a friend with some hangar space available at your home airport in Pueblo, Colorado. The weather is VMC but it’s hot, and the density altitude is really creeping up there.

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Universal Weather

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Parking is at a premium, and not all FBOs and hangars are the same. Hangar space at Toluca Universal Aviation Mexico has the largest hangar capacity for tenant and transient overnight business aviation aircraft at Toluca. Hangar space for transient GA operations is available but limited.

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Professional Pilot

AUGUST 8, 2024

Gulfstream G650ER/G550 Captain Simon Hangar Carmel IN A djusting to all of the issues regarding congestion is the way to go. Citation CJ1S/CJ1/CE650/I & Fairchild F-27/227 Chief Pilot & Chairman Cherokee Co Airport Authority Canton GA W e brief weather, notams, density at the airport, and any other concerning issues.

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