Two Students Receive Scholarships Worth $2,500 Each
Airports Council International - North America’s (ACI-NA) Commissioners’ Committee accepted the Scholarship Review Committee's recommendation to award scholarships of $2,500 each to two aviation students, at the ACI-NA Commissioners’ Committee meeting in Calgary. Recipients include Deanna K. Stoddard, a graduate student at the University of Nebraska-Omaha and Nicholas A. Keller, a graduate student at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana.
One Of Seven Light Airplane Accidents During One Week In Alaska
NTSB officials are investigating a fatal accident that took place on the McKeon Flats near China Poot and Alaska’s Neptune Bay on August 31, that fatally injured a Girdwood AK, pilot. George Vonderheide, 66, was killed when his single-engine Bellanca 7GCBC floatplane collided with a power line crossing the Wosnesenski River. He was the sole occupant.
Working To Be Good Neighbors And Maintain More Than 250 Training Flights Per Day
After an investment of $250,000 and five years of research, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University has found a way to address local residents’ concerns about noise from its training aircraft. The university has installed new noise reduction exhaust systems and is continuing to conduct research on new quieter propellers in its Daytona Beach campus fleet of Cessna 172 training aircraft.
GAMA Welcomes Committee's Leadership On Key GA Issues
Congressman Mike Rogers (R-AL), Chairman of the Subcommittee on Transportation Security, has released a Majority Staff report entitled “Rebuilding TSA into a Smarter, Leaner Organization,” detailing the Subcommittee’s findings and recommendations to help the TSA evolve to become a more effective and more efficient agency.
Will Provide For Improved Safety Areas On Main Runway
Ralph Wien Memorial Airport in Kotzebue, Alaska (OTZ), has received a $15.5 million federal grant to expand runway safety areas (RSAs). The grant, announced late last week by U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray Lahood and Acting FAA Administrator Michael Huerta, will help improve RSAs at both ends of Runway 9/27, which is the longer of the airport’s two runways.
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