Jessica is Executive Editor of Business & Commercial Aviation magazine. She started as Editor of ShowNews Online, Aviation Week's on-site trade show daily published at the Paris Air Show, NBAA Annual Convention, Singapore Air Show and at other significant aerospace gatherings.
Jessica has worked in television production and management consulting. While not yet a licensed pilot, Ms. Salerno has received flight instruction and has soloed.
Dec. 1 — At about 1336 EST, a Cessna 560XL (N607QS) sustained no damage when its rudder bound during landing at Toledo Express Airport (TOL), near Toledo, Ohio. The two pilots and one passenger were not injured. It was VFR and the flight was operating on an activated IFR flight plan. The FAR Part 135 flight departed from Monmouth Executive Airport, near Belmar, N.J., about 1207, and was destined for TOL. A post-flight examination inside the airplane's tailcone revealed ice around the rudder’s control cables and pulleys.
Sikorsky Skycraft lifts 20-ft. Strick-Tainer box from its bogie for transfer to freighter. Ten-place Bell 204B is being pushed as a business helicopter on a coast-to-coast tour with its $32,576 navcom package — ARC’s new TSOed Starflite line. On final approach in the DC-6B, simulator pilots practice with Dalto television landing device at United Airlines’ Denver flight training center.
Lee Juan Lanford, 87, founder of Associated Air Center (AAC), died from complications due to Alzheimer’s disease, Nov. 13. Lanford helped establish the Associated Radio Co., in 1948 at Love Field in Dallas, initially as a three-man operation that specialized in the repair and installation of surplus radio equipment in ex-military aircraft that were being converted into private/corporate aircraft. The firm added maintenance, repair and overhaul in 1968, including exterior modifications and refurbishments and the name changed to Associated Air Center.
