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Molly McMillin

Managing Editor, Business Aviation

Wichita

Summary

Molly McMillin is managing editor of business aviation for Aviation Week and editor-in-chief of the Business Aviation & AAM Report, 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
In a change of senior leadership at Duncan Aviation, Jeff Lake, formerly Duncan Aviation’s chief operating officer at its Lincoln, Nebraska, facility, has assumed the role of president from Aaron Hilkemann, now Duncan’s part-time CEO and chairman of Duncan Aviation’s board of advisors.
Marketplace

By Molly McMillin
Recovery in business aviation activity is being led by the U.S., with the country’s business jet and turboprop activity during the two weeks leading up to July 9 at 85% of the normal levels for the period, according to data from WingX.
Marketplace

By Molly McMillin
Bombardier has delivered its 350th Challenger 350 business jet, a milestone reached six years after the first aircraft entered service in 2014.
Marketplace