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
Gulfstream Aerospace delivered 127 business jets in 2020, compared to expectations of 130 aircraft, and down from 147 deliveries in 2019, its parent company reported Jan. 27.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Molly McMillin
Textron Aviation turned in lower business jet and turboprop deliveries in 2020 along with lower revenue and profit, but had a “blowout” fourth quarter, with expectations of a 15% increase in sales in 2021 and a return to 2019 delivery levels in 2022.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Molly McMillin
Wheels Up Partners may become publicly traded if reported talks to merge with Aspirational Consumer Lifestyle Corp., a blank check acquisition company, are successful, according to a report by Reuters.
Aircraft & Propulsion