<p>Matt Thurber, editor-in-chief at AIN Media Group, has been flying since 1975 and writing about aviation since 1978 and now has the best job in the world, running editorial operations for Aviation International News, Business Jet Traveler, and FutureFlight.aero. In addition to working as an A&amp;P mechanic on everything from Piper Cubs to turboprops, Matt taught flying at his father’s flight school in Plymouth, Mass., in the early 1980s, flew for an aircraft owner/pilot, and for two summer seasons hunted swordfish near the George’s Banks off the East Coast from a Piper Super Cub. An ATP certificated fixed-wing pilot and CFII and commercial helicopter pilot, Matt is type-rated in the Citation 500 and Gulfstream V/550. Based in the Pacific Northwest, Matt and his team cover the entire aviation scene including business aircraft, helicopters, avionics, safety, manufacturing, charter, fractionals, technology, air transport, advanced air mobility, defense, and other subjects of interest to AIN, BJT, and FutureFlight readers.</p>


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<p>The news that General Dynamics is planning to purchase Jet Aviation for $2.25 billion doesn’t affect the latter’s plans to open a new $6.9 million Midcoast Aviation-branded maintenance facility and Jet Aviation FBO at Ogden-Hinckley Airport in Ogden, Utah. Jet Aviation announced the plans in May, but now the new facility’s opening schedule has been delayed slightly until early next year. General Dynamics plans to run Jet Aviation as an independent business unit and retain the Jet Aviation and Midcoast Aviation brand names. The Ogden facility is expected to employ 200 people during the next two years, working from a 70,000-sq-ft maintenance facility and 51,000-sq-ft FBO terminal and hangar complex that Jet Aviation is taking over from Kemp Jet Services. In June, the Utah governor’s board of economic development approved incentives for Jet Aviation’s move to Ogden, including an $8.315 million economic development zone tax increment incentive and $2,000-per-employee industrial association fund grant, which helps bring high-paying jobs to the state. </p>


Ogden Facility Still On for Jet Aviation

The news that General Dynamics is planning to purchase Jet Aviation for $2.25 billion doesn’t affect the latter’s plans to open a new $6.9 million Midcoast

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