Content Archive: June 2008

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Touching Bases: Panorama logs 50th year at HPN

There are fewer and fewer full-service FBOs, the kind that offer charter, maintenance and even a flying school in addition to fuel and aircraft storage.
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Touching Bases: Ross Aviation buys Bradley Pacific's Hawaii FBOs

Ross Aviation, backed by private equity firm Centre Partners Management, purchased a majority interest in Bradley Pacific Aviation’s five-FBO chain in Hawa
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Touching Bases: Oxfordjet new FBO name

After buying Oxford Airport in the UK last year from BBA Aviation, new owners the Reuben Brothers and Dawnay Day have selected a name for the airport’s FBO

Touching Bases: Mali could see bizav growth

A study conducted by Millennium Challenge, MWH Americas and HNTB Federal Services projects a 51-percent increase in passenger traffic to Mali’s Bamako Airp
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FBO Profile: Preofessional Jet Center

During Donald Staszko’s 42 years and 30,000 hours of flying and 32 years with American Airlines, he wisely built a real estate and commercial property deve
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Touching Bases: Midcoast finds permanent work for temporary hangar

While Midcoast Aviation was building yet another new hangar at its St.
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Touching Bases: Fuel volumes double at BJC

In the three years that Business Jet Center (BJC) has been open at Oakland (Calif.) International Airport, the FBO has doubled the number of gallons of fue
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Touching Bases: Kuwait FBO open for business

Since December, business aircraft have been able to park at the new Royal Terminal at Kuwait International Airport, and the facility opened for passenger s
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Touching Bases: DB Aviation building new hangar

DB Aviation is building a new 43,000-sq-ft hangar at its Waukegan (Ill.) Regional Airport FBO.
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Touching Bases: IFBOA, JFI cut credit-card costs

Members of the Independent Fixed Base Operators Association (IFBOA) can save money on credit-card processing charges under a new program offered by Jet Fle