Event Being Held October 1-3 In Central Florida

Kissimmee/Osceola County is the site for the 2015 American (Beechcraft) Bonanza Society’s annual convention, Oct. 1-3. The Bonanza Society is a group of owners and pilots of Bonanza, Baron, and Travel Air type aircraft who share information and experiences.

Osceola County‘s Gaylord Palms is the convention hotel and Signature Flight Support, at the Kissimmee Gateway Airport, is the host Fixed Base Operator.  Signature will provide assistance in aircraft parking, fueling and servicing and facilitate ground transportation for the convention attendees. At least 50 aircraft have contacted Signature for services and it is estimated that approximately 75 aircraft total may arrive from locations all over North America.

Experience Kissimmee, Osceola County’s public-private tourism authority, along with the airport and Signature Flight Support, are providing arriving Bonanza Society members with welcome gift bags containing area information and promotional items. Although the Kissimmee Airport has supported numerous aviation related events in the greater Orlando area, this is the first time that such an event has been hosted, in its entirety, in Osceola County.

Among the featured speakers at the convention will be the Kissimmee Air Traffic Control Tower Manager Glen “Huck” Huckeba of Robinson Aviation.  Mr. Huckeba, who has over thirty years of air traffic experience with the U.S Air Force and the FAA’s contract tower program, will be speaking about safety trends in air traffic control and the regulations relevant to Temporary Flight Restrictions imposed on periodic events and critical facilities.

The Beechcraft Bonanza is an American general aviation aircraft introduced in 1947 by Beech Aircraft Corporation of Wichita, Kansas. The six-seater, single-engine aircraft is still being produced by Beechcraft and has been in continuous production longer than any other airplane in history. More than 17,000 Bonanzas of all variants have been built, produced in both distinctive V-tail as well as conventional tail configurations. A military variant, the T-34 Mentor, was a primary training aircraft for various aviation branches of the U.S. military from the late 1940s through the 1970s.

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