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Title
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KC - Based Aviation Firm to Add to Its Fleet
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Description
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A Kansas City based aviation company called Executive AirShare will be adding seven new business jets to its fleet. The company offers fractional ownership in aircraft to businesses and wealthy individuals and currently has 12 planes in its fleet. The new jet called Embraer Phenom 100 will be added in 2010. This company is located at Wheeler Downtown Airport. Includes an image of the new airplane.
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Date
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2007-05-24
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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Success on the Fly
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Description
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Article profiles Robert Baslee and his company Airdrome Aeroplanes, a world leader in producing replica WWI aircraft. Baslee has designed and manufactured over 60 planes in this Holden, Missouri, workshop, which are sold primarily to vintage airplane enthusiasts and movie studios. Two of his planes will be featured in a biographical film about Amelia Earhart titled "Amelia."
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Date
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2009-10-18
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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100 Years of Aviation
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Description
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Entire issue of Gateway Heritage devoted to flight. Includes primary sources such as letters by the Wright brothers and Charles Lindbergh. Chapters are: How We Made The First Flight; To Octave Chanute, Esq.; Lighter Than Air; Nerve and Cold Courage; Well Known in Aviation Circles; The Tuskegee Experiment; Mr. Mac: Sanford N. McDonnell; A Pilot's Story; The Eagle Flies (Irv Burrows recounts his role as the test pilot of the F-15 Eagle). Heavy emphasis on aviation in St. Louis.
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Date
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2003
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
