NOTAM:  4/9419  Issued:  09/06/2004 22:00  Effective:  09/06/2004 20:45 - 09/06/2004 22:35  State:  IA  Facility:  ZMP - MINNEAPOLIS (ARTCC),MN.  Type:  VIP  Description:  DES MOINES, IOWA, SEPTEMBER 6-7 2004 LOCAL. 

Some Airports Closed, Others Just Now Beginning To Reopen

As Florida dusted itself off from its latest hurricane encounter, airports across the state began to open for the first time since the mammoth Hurricane Frances forced their closure over the weekend.

NOTAM: All Of Florida NOTAM:  4/9412  Issued:  09/06/2004 15:00  Effective:  Immediately - Until Further Notice  State:  FL  Facility:  ZJX - JACKSONVILLE (ARTCC),FL.  Type:  SECURITY  Description:  STATE OF FLORIDA 

NOTAM:  4/9411  Issued:  09/06/2004 15:00  Effective:  Immediately - Until Further Notice  State:  FL  Facility:  ZMA - MIAMI (ARTCC), FL.  Type:  SECURITY  Description:  STATE OF FLORIDA 

It's a significant contrast from the old terminal building, with its bright walls, gleaming floors, plush furniture and modern fixtures. There's not a hint that this family-owned company has been doing business here for over six decades.

At dawn on September 1, 2004 pilot John Lasko took off from runway 19 at El Monte Airport (CA).

JFK Airport has been awarded a grant from the Federal Aviation Administraton and the Department of Transportation totalling almost $10 million.

Oh Great... Now Klyde Is Starting Trouble With Hockey Fans!

The U.S. Department of Transportation has proposed to name Polar Air Cargo as a new entrant in the U.S.-China market, and award new routes to three other carriers.

Australia's Labor Party has proposed a number of changes to aviation security in that country.

Only days after Guinness World Records certified the prior flight of NASA's X-43A hypersonic technology demonstrator aircraft as a world speed record, a full-scale dress rehearsal for the last and even faster flight of the small unpiloted research aircraft is tentatively scheduled to occur on Tuesday, September 7 from NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center.

The Oklahoma City (OK) pilot who crashed an Aerostar into an Austin (TX) home, killing himself, a couple from Edmond (OK), their two children and a business associate, was flying on a suspended license and had a history of multiple violations and close calls.

The Marion Jayne U.S. Air Race continued across the high country. The racers turned into comrades and competitors, appreciative of the skills they discovered in their fellow travelers...

"Universally, our current customers and former students are very pleased. There is some nostalgia for the old place. We would have people visit our old building who went through our training program in the 40's or 50's, and they would come back and say how very little had changed. It was just like stepping back in their memories. We're going to miss that, but there was no way to keep the old building." Source: Rich Morey, third generation owner of The Morey Aircraft Co., speaking about the reactions of people who visited the company and his grandfather in the 1940's and 1950's, and the difference now that the old building has been torn down and a new one erected in its place.