Aircraft flying into Las Vegas for 2023’s National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) Business Aviation Convention & Exhibition (NBAA-BACE) will have an opportunity to fuel up with Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF), an innovation ostensibly salient to the aviation industry’s expressed goal of achieving net-zero carbon emissions in coming years. Slated to be available at HND, North Las Vegas Airport (VGT) and Harry Reid International Airport (LAS), SAF—according to the companies by which the stuff is made—reduces aviation carbon emissions by up to eighty-percent.
From 2011 (YouTube Version): Rugged, Legendary, STOL Twin Makes A Comeback
The de Havilland Twin Otter is an airplane with a long history, and it gained a reputation as a workhorse of an airplane. But after it went out of production, Viking Air became one of the principal suppliers of spare parts and service to keep the airplanes flying. Dave Curtis, President and CEO of Viking Air Limited, told ANN at NBAA in Las Vegas this year that he often heard operators ask why the airplane wasn't put back into production.
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