Kirby Harrison is a freelance writer for The Weekly of Business Aviation, Business & Commercial Aviation and others in the Informa publishing chain. Harrison joined the Navy in 1962 and spent 20 years in the service, virtually all of it as a photojournalist, traveling from small islands in the South Pacific to Vietnam to the bombing of the Marine barracks in Lebanon. When Harrison retired from the Navy, he went back to college and graduated in 1971 from Syracuse University with a Bachelor's Degree in Photojournalism. Along the way, he spent two years as a news photographer at the Daily Press & Times Herald in Newport News, Virginia, and three years working for Studio Sebe in Nice, France as a photographer. More recently, before retiring, he worked nearly 20 years for Naval Aviation News.
With the January 1, 2020, deadline drawing closer for automatic dependent surveillance compliance, only about 52% of business aviation aircraft that fly in U.S. airspace are in compliance with the rule, according to MRO specialist Duncan Aviation.
With the decreasing supply of used aircraft and demand for new aircraft heating up, the industry is on the precipice of many new and exciting innovations.
