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The Jackson airport board sued on the basis of racial discrimination as the city is majority black; the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against the Jackson board in August 2019. [21] People supporting the takeover argued that the municipalities next to the airport should have power over its governance.
This facility covered 9 acres, employed 1,600 individuals and provided service exclusively to Delta Air Lines’ fleet of 79 aircraft, including 9 jets. In May 1968, Delta TechOps completed its first expansion, increasing the total space by 7 acres and adding another 1,700 employees, more than doubling the size of the division’s workforce. [5]
JetBlue and Qatar Airways are minority shareholders in JSX. [16] [17] CEO Alex Wilcox was a founding executive of both JetBlue and Kingfisher Airlines. [8] For regulatory purposes, JSX is set up as public charter operator and does not directly operate aircraft. JetSuiteX, Inc. charters a 30-seat Embraer regional jet operated by its subsidiary ...
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Jackson Jet Center sought to expand its business — which includes jet maintenance, supplying aircraft parts and charter flights — with the $6.2 million new hangar after the Boise Airport ...
In the 1970s, the airport name was changed to McKellar–Sipes Regional Airport to honor Major Robert Ray "Buster" Sipes, a United States Air Force test pilot from Jackson, who was killed in 1969 when his RF-101 Voodoo jet fighter crashed after takeoff from RAF Upper Heyford, Oxfordshire, England. A plaque is located in the Church of St. Peter ...
During the late 1940s, the jet age was dawning and in 1948 the Navy's first jet carrier air groups and squadrons came to NAS Jacksonville. By April 1949, NAS Jacksonville was the East Coast's aircraft capital, with more naval aircraft stationed here than at any other naval base from Nova Scotia to the Caribbean – 60 percent of the Fleet's air ...