Molly McMillin

Managing Editor, Business Aviation

Wichita, KS

Summary

Molly McMillin, a 30-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.

 Molly became a private pilot in 2011, learning to fly in her dad's 1956 Piper Tri-Pacer. 

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  2023 and 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
An influx of first-time customers into private aviation during the COVID-19 pandemic has brought opportunity along with “unbelievable pressures” with
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Molly McMillin
Brazil-based Embraer delivered 93 executive jets in 2021, including 39 in the fourth quarter (Q4), the company announced Feb. 21.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Molly McMillin
Vista Global Holding plans to acquire the operating platform and maintenance services of Air Hamburg, a full-service private aviation charter company based in Hamburg, Germany.
Aircraft & Propulsion