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.

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Articles

By Molly McMillin
The National Business Aviation Association has made “significant” reductions to its workforce as it contends with the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, including the cancellation of its events through July 1, the business aviation trade group announced May 5.
Marketplace

By Molly McMillin
The Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) is able to weather the financial loss from the cancellation of AirVenture Oshkosh in July, EAA’s chair and CEO Jack Pelton said, but it may mean scaling back growth on some of its programs.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Molly McMillin
After arriving on four trucks from a U.S. Air Force Boneyard in Arizona, a retired B-1 Bomber was unloaded on May 4 here, where it will be disassembled, scanned and reassembled virtually under a six-year project with Wichita State University’s National Institute for Aviation Research (NIAR).
Aircraft & Propulsion