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.

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Articles

By Molly McMillin
United Launch Alliance, based in Centennial, Colorado, has selected Wichita-based Maynard to supply components for the Atlas V rocket following a November meeting with potential Wichita suppliers.
Space

By Molly McMillin
The number of used business jets for sale in December dropped 54% when compared to a year ago and declined 9% compared to November figures, according to a report by Jefferies.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Molly McMillin
The Fargo Jet Center has purchased two of the last Bombardier Learjet 75 Liberty light jets to come off the Wichita production line, for modification as air-medical aircraft, ending an era of the Learjet that began with the first delivery in 1964.
Aircraft & Propulsion