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The Community Foundation of the Virgin Islands, CFVI, is taking nominations for the inaugural Maria Rodriguez Van Heurck Award.

One of the British Virgin Islands’ most exclusive resort communities has added a major new amenity: a new heliport.

Preliminary Reports Conquest Down in Tennessee Cessna 441, February 7, 2021, Winchester, Tennessee – A Cessna Conquest II crashed on approach to the Winchester, Tennessee, Municipal Airport, killing the airline transport pilot and commercial pilot on board.  The IFR flight from the Thomasville, Georgia, Regional Airport checked in with Bowling Green Approach Control while descending to 4,000 feet msl and was cleared for the RNAV approach to Winchester’s Runway 36.  Radar contact was lost as it descended through 2,300 feet, typical for coverage in that area. The controller’s attempt t...

Virgin Islands pilot, celebrated for hurricane rescue flying, dies in helicopter crash By Dan Parsons | February 19, 2021 Estimated reading time 7 minutes, 19 seconds. A helicopter carrying four people over the U.S. Virgin Islands crashed on Feb. 15, killing all on board including a well-known local pilot celebrated for flying humanitarian missions in the wake of two devastating 2017 hurricanes. The silver-and-yellow Bell 206 was registered to St. Thomas-based sightseeing and charter outfit Caribbean Buzz Helicopters and piloted by owner Maria Rodriguez, who had two-and-a-half decades of ...