Molly McMillin

Managing Editor, Business Aviation

Wichita, KS

Summary

Molly McMillin, a 25-year aviation journalist, is managing editor of business aviation for the Aviation Week Network and editor-in-chief of The Weekly of Business Aviation, an Aviation Week market intelligence report. 

Before joining Aviation Week, Molly spent nearly 20 years at the Wichita Eagle, Kansas’ largest newspaper, where she served as senior aviation/aerospace reporter.

Along the way, she has had some unique experiences, including a ride with the U.S.A.F. Thunderbirds Demonstration Team, a parachute jump with the U.S. Army Golden Knights demonstration team and a ride in the back of an Air Force tanker watching a boom operator fuel a fighter jet. Her reporting has taken her across the world. Molly became a private pilot in 2011.

She has won multiple state and national journalism awards, including awards from the Society of Business Editors and Writers, Heart of America and the Kansas Press Association. She was the recipient of the 2013 National Business Aviation Association’s Gold Wing Award for Journalism Excellence and was featured in a book on Kansas called Ad Astra: 161 Adventurers, Astronauts, Discoverers, Explorers, Pilots, Pioneers and Scientists.

A graduate of Wichita State University, Molly was selected the 2014 Outstanding Alumni at WSU’s Elliott School of Communication.

Articles

By Molly McMillin
The macroeconomic impact of Brexit is likely the key threat to commercial companies, Cowen and Co. analyst Cai von Rumohr says. “It’s hard to gauge, but [business jets] look the most vulnerable,” von Rumohr wrote in a note June 27 to investors, since demand is sensitive to economic uncertainty and equity market swings.

By Molly McMillin
LMI Aerospace plans to close its sheet metal fabrication operation here because of a significant decline in work on large business and regional jets and large wide body airliners, the company said June 29.
Business Aviation

By Molly McMillin
Dassault Aviation has received European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) certification for its Falcon 8X large-cabin, ultra-long-range trijet business jet.
Business Aviation