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
In its just-released market outlook, Embraer predicts deliveries of 6,350 jets in the 70-to-130 seat category over the next 20 years. Demand from 2015-2034 is expected to total 2,250 units in the 70 to 90-seat segment and 4,100 units in the 90 to 130-seat segment, Embraer said. The total is valued at $300 billion during that period. Embraer released its 2015-2034 Market Outlook June 15.

By Molly McMillin
FAA officials issued the first S-LSA airworthiness certificate to ICON A5 serial number 1, or ASN-001.

By Molly McMillin
Cirrus introduced the Cirrus SR20 in 1999, followed by the SR 22 in 2001, and the turbocharged SR22T in 2010.