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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Articles

William Garvey
THE PHONE RANG. It was Tom Christopher, excited. "Did you see the Times today?" "Oh, yes." "Can you believe it?!!" Lehman Brothers had declared bankruptcy and Merrill Lynch had been sold. Even though I had seen the news on television and on line the previous day and night, seeing it in bold headline print on the front page of the New York Times somehow made it undeniably real. Wall Street was in freefall and there was no bottom in sight.

William Garvey
Entrepreneur, Albuquerque, N.M.

William Garvey (Ridgefield, Conn.)
Although Grumman’s “Iron Works” was fabled for its U.S. Navy fighters, in a bid to diversify, its engineers also developed the first for-business turbine aircraft—the turboprop Gulfstream—along with postal trucks. Now the current maker of Gulfstream jets is also diversifying, and delivering several messages of its own. General Dynamics Corp.’s Aug. 19 announcement that it planned to acquire Jet Aviation for $2.25 billion not only confirmed its faith in business aviation’s solidity and potential, but signaled the course of the segment’s evolutionary growth.
William Garvey