Fred George

Chief Aircraft Evaluation Editor

Redmond, Oregon

Summary

Fred formerly served as senior editor and chief pilot with Business & Commercial Aviation and as Aviation Week & Space Technology's chief aircraft evaluation pilot. He has flown left seat in virtually every turbine-powered business jet produced in the past three decades. He now is managing member of Fred George Aero LLC of Redmond, Oregon.

He has flown more than 195 makes, models and variants, ranging from the Piper J-3 Cub through the latest Boeing and Airbus large twins, logging more than 7,000 hours of flight time. He has earned an Airline Transport Pilot certificate and six jet aircraft type ratings, and he remains an active pilot. Fred also specializes in avionics, aircraft systems and pilot technique reports.

Fred was the first aviation journalist to fly the Boeing 787, Airbus A350 and Gulfstream G650, among other new turbofan aircraft. He’s also flown the Airbus A400M, Howard 500, Airship 600, Dassault Rafale, Grumman HU-16 Albatross and Lockheed Constellation.

Prior to joining Aviation Week, he was an FAA designated pilot examiner [CE-500], instrument flight instructor and jet charter pilot and former U.S. Naval Aviator who made three cruises to the western Pacific while flying the McDonnell-Douglas F-4J Phantom II.

Fred has won numerous aviation journalism awards, including NBAA’s David W. Ewald Platinum Wing Lifetime Achievement Award.

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Articles

Fred George
FAA Field Approval of IFR GPS installations went into a holding pattern in some regions shortly after Flight Standard Information Bulletin for Airworthiness (FSAW) 98-03 was issued early this year. The intent of the bulletin is to ensure that all mechanical or electrical equipment that is installed during a major alteration is properly maintained during its service life.

Edited By Gordon A. GilbertFred George
Fairchild Dornier has begun flight testing of its 328JET, which it is marketing both as the first 32-seat regional jet airliner and as a business jet.

Edited By Gordon A. GilbertFred George
James O. Rice, Jr., VisionAire Corp.'s chairman and CEO, inked an order worth $175 million for JT15D-5s with Gilles P. Ouimet, Pratt&Whitney Canada's president and COO, in late January. VisionAire chose the 2,900-pound-thrust JT15D-5 to power its single-engine Vantage business jet because of its "unequaled reliability," according to Rice.