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
Business and general aviation trade groups are “deeply concerned” about a “rash decision” by Santa Clara County officials in California to ban the sale of 100 octane low lead (100LL) fuel at two airports, Reid-Hillview Santa Clara County Airport and San Martin Airport, beginning Jan. 1, 2022.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Molly McMillin
Jet Support Services, a maintenance and financial services provider to the business aviation industry, has acquired Montreal-based Traxxall, a provider of software for aircraft maintenance tracking, parts inventory management and other services.
Maintenance & Training

By Molly McMillin
The Airbus ACJ TwoTwenty ultra-long-range business jet completed its first flight Dec. 14, a little more than a year since the company launched the business jet program.
Aircraft & Propulsion