Ohio flyers say it's just not fair -- a clause in the state's
2004-2005 General Revenue Budget Bill (HB 95) passed last year by
the Ohio 125th General Assembly. The bill changed the Ohio state
aircraft registration license tax to $100.00 dollars per aircraft,
regardless of the plane's size. Prior to this bill aircraft
registration was based on a per-seat fee of $3.00.
The Missouri Pilots Association is offering a $600 Scholarship
for a kindergarten though twelfth grade teacher to attend an
aerospace education course. While, the scholarship may be used at
any college or university, historically only Central Missouri State
University (CMSU) at Warrensburg offers an appropriate course.
New Piper Aircraft, based in Vero Beach (FL), has gone through
the wringer. Five times in the past two years, the struggling
company has down-sized operations, laying off workers and swimming
hard just to stay above water.
But that may be changing.
The Air Force has agreed to implement a suggestion from the AOPA
that the advocacy group says will protect pilots at Ellsworth
Municipal Airport (9K7), near Lyons (KS), from going head-to-head
with military pilots in the traffic pattern.
A private search team has found what could be the wreckage of a
Cessna 170 (file photo of type, below), two weeks after the plane
failed to arrive at Auburn (WA).
On the campaign front, Senator John Kerry, the apparent heir to
the Democratic presidential nomination, made a stop in Houston last
week, taking questions from the crowd at a town hall meeting. Some
of those questions centered on aviation.
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