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  What started out as a small two-person experiment in 1921 in Ohio is now a multibillion-dollar industry with 1,200-horsepower, turbine-engine airplanes, treating more than 127 million acres of U.S. cropland each year. The agricultural aviation industry gathered at Virginia’s Leesburg Executive Airport on August 3 to mark a century...

A Coahoma County ag pilot who lost his life in an airplane accident July 25, saw local pilots host a flyover at his funeral on Saturday morning. Cord Foster was killed when his plane failed to clear a berm on take off in Scott Sunday a week ago. Foster was...

Air Tractor® “Dusty Crophopper” takes its place beside aviation legends. On Aug. 3, the National Agricultural Aviation Association will present to the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum the full-sized, fully flight-capable replica of Dusty Crophopper, star of Disney's popular 3D computer-animated comedy films, Planes, and Planes: Fire and...

EPA Finalizes Paraquat Registration, OKs Aerial Applications for Now KANSAS CITY, Mo. (DTN) -- EPA finalized its interim registration decision for paraquat on Aug. 1, reversing its proposal last year to ban most aerial applications. Instead, the agency will permit aerial applications of the Group 22 herbicide in crops, with...

INDUCTED — 1984 Began organized agricultural flying in 1926 in Mississippi and formed one of the first commercial firms in Clarksdale, Mississippi, 1933. Jesse Orval “J.O.” Dockery (aka “Dock”), born February 26, 1909. Biography Dock Dockery began his aviation career soloing at the tender age of 12, September 12, 1921!...

Author’s note: I visited Harold Thompson in May of this year in Tarboro, North Carolina. Shortly after that, on July 31, Harold got a closeup look of a telephone pole in his AT-402A. The aircraft was destroyed, but by the grace of God, Harold is with us today, doing what...

by Martin da Costa Porto The pilot opened his eyes and what he saw was the ceiling of a white room, “Where am I,” he wondered? He looked down and could see cables connected to his body, turned his head and saw monitors and computers in his hospital room. The...

Celebration of 100 Years of Ag Aviation at the National Agricultural Aviation Museum and MS AG and Forestry Museum. Family Movie night — August 27th 6pm - 9 pm, Exhibit Barn Disney Movie "Planes" Concessions Q&A with pilots and industry leaders Night at the Museum — August 28th 6pm -...

On July 22, 2021 Missouri State Senator Jason Bean presented a resolution passed by the Missouri Senate honoring 100 years of aerial application in Missouri, as well as acknowledging Mid-Continent Aircraft as a leader in the industry ahead of the 100th Anniversary of Ag Aviation on August 3, 2021.  ...

Break-even is when the company’s total revenue is exactly equal to the sum of costs and expenses. It is calculated to know how much, in number of transactions or money, it is necessary to sell the service in order to pay for the operations without making a loss. It is...