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.

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Articles

By Molly McMillin
Gulfstream operates an aircraft-service center, a completions facility and a sales and design center in Long Beach. It plans to open a 19,000-sq.-ft. maintenance hangar and nearly 10,000 sq. ft. of support and office space in mid-to-late summer, the company said.

By Molly McMillin
In May, flight activity by aircraft category was positive for most categories, with large-cabin aircraft posting the largest gains, at 4.7% when compared to May 2014, according to Argus International’s newly released TraqPak report.

By Molly McMillin
The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers said on June 8 that it would only consider serious proposals from the company regarding the proposed sale of the unit, which builds aerospace components. The unit employs more than 900 Machinists union members.