AVweb‘s search of news in aviation found announcements from Coast Flight Training, the Recreational Aviation Foundation, the General Aviation Manufacturers Association and the National Aviation Hall of Fame. Coast Flight Training and Envoy Air/American Airlines Group will host a free Aviation Career Day on Saturday, Nov. 12, noon to 4 p.m., at Montgomery-Gibbs Executive Airport and are teaming up to provide scholarship opportunities for high school seniors and recent graduates with a passion for flight. Driven by the demand for more information about private airfields, the Recreational Aviation Foundation has compiled a Guide for the Private Airfield Owner. The guide states that private airfields are invaluable, especially as pressure increases on public lands to restrict aviation access to many of our nation’s special places.
The Board of Directors of the General Aviation Manufacturers Association at its fall board meeting elected Simon Caldecott, President and CEO of Piper Aircraft, as its chairman for 2017. In addition, Phil Straub, Managing Director of Aviation and Vice President of Garmin International, was elected as vice chairman. Straub is a former chairman of GAMA’s Technical Policy Committee. The Board also voted Nicolas Chabbert, Senior Vice President of the Daher Airplane Business Unit, as chairman of GAMA’s Safety and Accident Investigation Committee. The National Aviation Hall of Fame announced the names of four individuals elected as the Enshrinee Class of 2017, each of whom will be inducted at a formal ceremony next fall. NAHF Enshrinement Director Ron Kaplan revealed the names before an audience of nearly 1,000 attendees at a special session of the National Business Aviation Association Convention in Orlando.
