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
For the second time in four years, veteran corporate pilot Ron Henriksen (see photo) is opening a brand new business airport. His own. After plying the airways for 14 years, the Houston native switched roles from business pilot to piloting a business, and at that he was an ace, becoming a telecommunications mogul. He made a pile as owner of Logix Communications and now is investing some of that gain back into business aviation.

William Garvey
Despite their less than breathtaking bid, Kansas political leaders convinced Hawker Beechcraft to stay put and keep building airplanes in Wichita, thereby once again using the public purse to perpetuate the city’s continuing claim as Air Capital of the World.

William Garvey
Even though no one has yet produced a commercially successful single-engine jet, candidates continue to appear. The latest is the Stratos 714 (see image at top of page). So far financed largely by Michael Lemaire, a French high-tech entrepreneur who found success in India and Silicon Valley, the four-year-old project just received enough outside funding to proceed with wind tunnel testing of a 1/8th-scale model to verify design developed through computational fluid dynamics. Those tests should occur in April, probably at the University of Washington.
William Garvey