Bill covers business aviation and advanced air mobility for Aviation Week Network. A former newspaper reporter, he has also covered the airline industry, military aviation, commercial space and unmanned aircraft systems. Prior to joining Aviation Week in November 2017, he worked for Aviation International News and Avionics and Rotor & Wing magazines.
Bill was the recipient of the National Business Aviation Association's Gold Wing Award in 2017 and 2022 for his reporting on drones and advanced air mobility, respectively, and in 1997 received the British Royal Aeronautical Society Aerospace Journalist of the Year award in the business aviation category. He is the author of the book, Enter The Drones, The FAA and UAVs in America, published in 2016.
Clay Lacy Aviation broke ground in July on a new FBO and maintenance facility at Waterbury-Oxford Airport (KOXC) in Oxford, Connecticut, a project that represents a $20 million expansion of its current presence at the airport.
Business aviation associations hailed U.S. Senate passage of legislation containing a sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) blenders tax credit that is not universally welcomed across the fuel industry.
Elliott Aviation has retrofitted HomeSafe autoland systems on Daher TBM 940 turboprops delivered in the U.S. from 2019-20, before the Garmin-based autoland system was certified on the aircraft.
