Amelia Rose Earhart brought her single-engine Pilatus PC-12 NG aircraft into Honolulu Airport a few minutes after noon following a four-hour, 50-minute flight from Christmas Island.
EAA Pilot Services, presented by Signature Flight Support, will be located in the Federal Pavilion. DTC DUAT will be the official weather provider. The daily weather briefing will be provided by the National Weather Service.
The museum received $1 million in late June to begin design and development work on a 60,000-square-foot building that will be called Aviation Hall; a $5 million grant must be matched by other donations to fund construction.
Jack Pelton: “We have worked hard to reach this milestone, but it is only a first step. We must continue to work together to evaluate and introduce fuel that meets the highest safety and performance standards . . .
it has received ten replacement fuel proposals from producers Afton Chemical Company, Avgas LLC, Shell, Swift Fuels and a consortium of BP, TOTAL and Hjelmco, for further evaluation in the Piston Aviation Fuels Initiative (PAFI).
Colonel Brian Tachias, head of the U.S. Army’s Project Management Fixed Wing office in Huntsville, Ala., presented the award for 20,000 accident-free flight hours in support of the Night Eagle program.
Each of the larger Space Bins will stow six bags, two more than the current pivot bins installed on Next-Generation 737s with the Boeing Sky Interior. Alaska Airlines is the launch customer for new bins.
HI Corporation (IHI: previously named Ishikawajima Harima Heavy Industries), Snecma and Techspace Aero (Safran), and MTU Aero Engines AG are participants in the GE9X engine program.
