Noting that Arkansas has a “significant interest in the continued vitality of general aviation,” Gov. Asa Hutchinson recognized February 2016 as General Aviation Appreciation Month. According to the FAA, Arkansas has 91 public-use airports, which serve more than 5,000 pilots and more than 3,000 active general aviation aircraft.
Inside a cavernous building on the Textron Aviation East Campus, a team of workers is putting together what will be the assembly line for the company’s biggest Cessna business jet so far, the Citation Longitude. The $23.9 million, revamped super–midsize business jet was unveiled in November at the National Business Aviation Association Convention in Las…
Check out this awesome insight into the History of General Aviation! Serendipity can lead you to amazing discoveries in Aviation Week’s 100-Year Archive. One of our interns who was checking the 400,000 pages scanned into the archive asked me a question about an ad for the Wright-Martin Aircraft Corp. in an issue from 1917. The two-page…