William Walker

1 month ago | generalaviationnews.com | William Walker

In late February 2025, members of the South Carolina Breakfast Club flew into Marion County Regional Airport (KMAO) for the first time in 30 years. The club, which has been visiting South Carolina airports since 1938, had a perfect weather day for the restart of the first scheduled visit to Marion after a three-decade break. Approximately 25 aircraft and more than 60 individuals turned out for the Feb.

Sep 30, 2024 | flipboard.com | William Walker

3 hours agoHELENA, Mont. (AP) — An 81-year-old Montana man faces sentencing in federal court Monday in Great Falls for illegally using tissue and testicles from large sheep hunted in Central Asia and the U.S. to illegally create hybrid sheep for captive trophy hunting in Texas and Minnesota. Prosecutors are …

Sep 11, 2024 | generalaviationnews.com | William Walker

“If not now, when? If not us, who?”Those two questions were the basis for the Recreational Aviation Foundation (RAF). “These guiding words are as appropriate today as they were a number of years ago when a small group of pilots asked them on that starlit night, sitting around a campfire at a backcountry airstrip,” say officials with the foundation, which is celebrating its 21st year in 2024.

Jul 8, 2024 | generalaviationnews.com | William Walker

Time spent with pilot John Hartz quickly reveals his preference for flying off the water and for doing it in Maine, a state with a heritage of seaplane flying. Hartz lives in Cape Elizabeth, Maine, outside Portland, and flies his 1979 Cessna 185 Skywagon on PK amphibious floats much of the year. “Geographically Maine is as large as the rest of New England combined,” Hartz said. “There are millions of acres in Maine that are accessible by the public and the state has over 6,000 lakes and ponds.

Jun 3, 2024 | generalaviationnews.com | William Walker

The countdown is moving quickly for the June 13-16, 2024, U.S. Open Golf Championship on Pinehurst, North Carolina’s famed No. 2 course. The same goes for preparations at Moore County Airport (KSOP), the primary airport for the thousands of aircraft arrivals and departures expected during the week of the tournament. “We’re pretty far along in preparations for the Open,” Moore County Airport Director Rick Cloutier said about a month before the big event.