Aero Air’s Molczan Earns Master Mechanic Award from FAA
Ken Molczan is the humblest of men, so when he was asked to appear front and center at the microphone following the Twin Commander University dinner last April, you knew it would be for something special. And indeed it was. With Molczan at his side, Kevin McCullough, president and CEO of Aero Air, which has been an authorized Twin Commander Service Center since the mid-1950s, narrated a slide show tracing the history of a talented and accomplished technician who first started working with Aero Air nearly 45 years ago –– Ken Molczan. Complied by Aero Air staff from photos taken over many years by many people, the slide show chronicled Molczan’s early days as a mechanic; the Experimental aircraft he…
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ADVENTURE TRAVEL – New Taxes in Paradise
Another in a continuing series on adventure travel destinations in your Twin Commander, authored by the founder of Air Journey (www.airjourney.com). The Islands of the Bahamas are the closest paradise to U.S. shores. The 700-plus islands, cays, and islets in…
FrankenCopter
John Wood of Concord, Massachusetts, is a former partner in a Commander 1000, and although he now flies a jet he says the Commander “remains one of my favorite aircraft.” Wood still reads Flight Levels, especially Helmuth Eggeling’s “Flying the…