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Following a record year for passenger traffic in 2022, MidAmerica St. Louis Airport is on its way, if all goes as expected, to topping that total by the end of the current 12-month calendar period.

North American Helicopter, a 55-plus year veteran charter operator that provides services to customers throughout the U.S., Canada, and the Caribbean from its home base at MidAmerica St. Louis Airport, debuted its newly acquired K-MAX® medium-to-heavy lift aircraft with an aerial firefighting demonstration on the airport grounds on March 6. The K-MAX® chopper is designed

Boeing added hundreds to its St. Louis-area workforce last year, with an eye toward the next generations of defense aircraft. The company added 900 jobs in the region in 2022. Many were engineers, who will be needed as the company shifts to future products, Steve Nordlund, senior site executive for Boeing St. Louis, said in

For the past two years, MidAmerica St. Louis Airport has posted record passenger levels, and it may be on its way to doing that again this year. “Set a record in ’21, setting another record here in ’22,” said Airport Director Bryan Johnson. “Looking at our projections and our flight schedules, it’s likely we’ll set

In order to allow MidAmerica St. Louis Airport to grow and continue to thrive as a location for passenger flight service, the St. Clair County Public Building Commission has approved the adoption of an incentive program designed to encourage the addition of new destinations.

St. Clair County Transit District is seeking bidders to construct the MetroLink Extension Light Rail Project.

The directors from five busy airports in the St. Louis region say the collaboration that takes place amongst their airports is unique in the aviation industry and a model for success — accounting for more than 36,500 jobs (between airport operations and tenants) and generating a collective annual economic impact that exceeds $10 billion and

Collaboration rather than competition is the watchword among the directors of the five St. Louis-area airports, according to panelists at a recent “Take Flight Forum” discussion (If you’re surprised to learn that St. Louis is served by five airports, you aren’t alone).

Five St. Louis area airport directors participated in the St. Louis Regional Freightway Take Flight Forum held on Wednesday at the Bi-State Development offices in downtown St. Louis.

WASHINGTON — Boeing said it proved in a virtual demonstration this spring thatseveral U.S. Navy aircraft types could task the company’s MQ-25 Stingray tanker drone with surveillance missions and receive live imagery in support of their own missions.