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FLIGHT ALERTS

FLIGHT ADVISORY - GPS Testing

The FAA will be conducting ACC GPS Testing in the Beatty, NV area November 7th through December 16th, 2011 which may result in unreliable or unavailable GPS signal.  For more information click here.

FLIGHT ADVISORY - GPS Testing

The FAA will be conducting ACC GPS Testing in the Daggett, CA area November 12th through November 17th, 2011 which may result in unreliable or unavailable GPS signal.  For more information click here.

Football Season is Here - Check the TFRs

The FAA would like to remind pilots to check for TFRs (Temporary Flight Restriction) in and around sporting events.  Be Safe and avoid a possibly suspension by checking for TFRs before your next flight.

View TFRs on the FAA website.

PILOT AID’s

SPOTLIGHT

Florence Murphy

ARTICLES / NEWS / MORE

EAA 1300 Christmas Dinner

EAA 1300 invites you to share a Christmas Dinner on December 10th, 2011 at the Henderson Airport.  Meet Astronaut Brian Binnie, the pilot who flew Space Ship One to win the Ten Million Dollar Ansari X Prize.  Not only has  he flown Space Ship One, he served 21 years in the U.S. Navy as a Naval Aviator flying the A-7 Corsair II, the A-6 Intruder, F-18 Hornet, and the AV-8B Harrier II.

Seating is limited to 48 people, so please reserve/purchase your seats as early as possible, cut off date is December 2nd, 2011.  Cost is $35.00 if reserved by November 23rd and $40.00 up til December 2nd. 

For more information visit Chapter 1300’s website at: www.eaa1300.org.

NORTHTOWN (KVGT) Turns 70

North Las Vegas Airport - locally known as Northtown turns Seventy years old on Wednesday December 7th.  North Las Vegas Airport which was originally called Sky Haven Airport opened on Sunday December 7th, 1941 and morning celebrations of it’s opening were quickly interrupted with news of the Japanese attacks at Pearl Harbor. 

The airport survived it’s opening day tragedy to serve local pilots during World War II.  In the 1950’s it was sold and renamed Thunderbird Field, in 1967 the airport was purchased by the Hughes Corporation and the airport quickly became a relief airport to McCarran International.  In 1987 the airport was once again sold, this time to County (Clark County) and eventually the airport was incorporated into the Clark County Department of Aviation, which also manages McCarran International, Henderson Executive Airport, Jean Sports Field and Overton. 

Today North Las Vegas Airport is the second busiest airport in all of Nevada behind only McCarran International Airport.

PHOTOS WANTED

The Clark County Aviation Association is looking for historical photographs of Aviation here in the Valley.  If you have an interesting or historical photograph to share please email admin@ccaanv.org

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DID YOU KNOW?

That Nellis AFB started out as a dirt runway for Western Air Express Airlines in 1929.

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