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Hawker must cut costs!

BY MOLLY McMILLIN
The Wichita Eagle

With debt coming due in 2014, Hawker Beechcraft has no option but to lower its costs, a report by Moody’s Investors Service said.

“Cutting costs is key to its survival,” Moody’s Investors Service vice president and senior analyst Edwin Wiest said in the report.

Hawker Beechcraft is highly leveraged with $2.135 billion in debt, Wiest wrote. Meanwhile, its order book has fallen by 70 percent from its peak of $7.6 billion at the end of 2008 to $2.4 […]

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Getting back on the bicycle for the CFI and the Pilot…

Pilots ‘quit’ flying for as many reasons as there are grains of sand on a beach. Most of the time the priorities of life change and flying has to wait. Family, career, re-locations, job changes, and (oh yeah) money are all factors.

When the time comes for you to start back up again what should you do to prepare to get ‘back on the bicycle’? For the instructor, what should you do to facilitate the flyer’s desire to get back into […]

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Paulding Northwest Atlanta Airport

Paulding Nrothwest Atlanta Airport

 

The paulding Northwest Atlanta airport F.B.O. grand opening Saturday May 1, 2010 from 8:00am till 3:00pm.

Come out and enjoy the Food, Fun and flying.

Open house and aviation education day

Enjoy Jin & Nick’s BBQ.

Ribbon cutting Ceremony at 10:00am

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Just how important is Business class aviation?

 

Just how important is business class aviation to your community? Consider the some facts. 

FACT:
Business aviation contributes $150 billion to U.S. economic output, and employs more than 1.2 million people. 

 FACT:
The vast majority of general aviation aircraft used for business worldwide are manufactured, operated, serviced and maintained in the United States. Even the minority of those planes manufactured outside the U.S. are often “completed,” adding avionics, electronics, automation systems, engines, paint, interiors and other aircraft components manufactured here in the U.S. 

 FACT:
Business aircraft manufacture is […]

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