William Garvey

Former Editor-in-Chief, Business & Commercial Aviation

Charleston, South Carolina

Summary

Bill was Editor-in-Chief of Business & Commercial Aviation from 2000 to 2020. During his stewardship, the monthly magazine received scores of awards for editorial excellence.

He is the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement in Journalism Award from the National Business Aviation Association; the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Aerospace Media Awards; the Aviation Journalism Award from the National Air Transportation Association; and an Aerospace Journalist of the Year Award for Business Aviation.

Previously, Bill served as Managing Editor of Aviation Week Television. He was the top editor for both Flying and Professional Pilot magazines, as well as a member of the senior editorial staff at Reader's Digest. He also managed communications for FlightSafety International.

Bill has authored or co-authored three aviation books, was an essayist for National Public Radio, wrote aviation documentaries for The Discovery Channel and has written for numerous publications including The New York Times, Smithsonian Air & Space, Popular Mechanics and The Associated Press, among others.

An active aviator, Bill holds a Commercial Pilot license, along with multiengine, instrument, seaplane and glider ratings.

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William Garvey
Jim Garland President and Founder, Sharp Details, Dulles, Va.

William Garvey
To say that Clay Jones is a business aviation man is to unfairly minimize the breadth of his interests and contributions, like identifying Dwight Eisenhower as an interstate highway champion, Steve Martin as a fair banjo player and Arnold Palmer as an iced tea concoctionist. All of those are true statements, but distort their subjects by gross omission.

Kerry Lynch, William Garvey
Edward W. Stimpson, the founding and longtime head of the General Aviation Manufacturers Association, who went on to become the U.S. representative to the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), and finally chairman of the Flight Safety Foundation (FSF), died early Nov. 25 at his home in Boise, Idaho, after a battle with cancer. He was 75.
William Garvey