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
$765,900, $7.14, £1995 ($3,076)—Prices, respectively, for a 2013 Beech Bonanza G36 equipped with air conditioning; June's per-gallon average for avgas in the Eastern U.S.; the peak-hour landing fee for a Citation Bravo at London City Airport. 382—The number of Bombardier business jets ordered or optioned by VistaJet and NetJets since December. Value: $14.2 billion.
Business Aviation

William Garvey
Having recently flown for the first time in a Robinson R22—a gift flight from my AH-64 student-pilot son—I am now viscerally informed as to just how diminutive a best-selling flying machine can be. With a cabin measuring 3.6 ft. across, rising not quite 6 ft. tall from skids to its cabin top, and weighing in at a max gross of 1,370 lb., or roughly equivalent to a well-stocked freezer, it is a decidedly compact, no-frills machine for two. Which is exactly what a lot of vertically minded people wanted.
Business Aviation

William Garvey
An NTSB “go-team” from the agency's Washington headquarters is conducting an on-site investigation of the July 7 crash of a turbine-powered de Havilland Otter that claimed 10 lives during a failed takeoff from Soldotna Airport in Alaska. The charter flight, operated by Rediske Air Inc., of nearby Nikiski, was bound for a lodge across the Cook Inlet when the accident occurred. Soldotna is on the Kenai Peninsula, about 80 mi. southwest of Anchorage.
William Garvey