• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
General Aviation NewsGeneral Aviation News

General Aviation News

Because flying is cool

  • Pictures of the Day
    • Submit Picture of the Day
  • Stories
    • News
    • Features
    • Opinion
    • Products
    • NTSB Accidents
    • ASRS Reports
  • Comments
  • Classifieds
    • Place Classified Ad
  • Events
  • Print Archives
  • Subscribe
  • Show Search
Hide Search

Grant will fund new facility for New York flying club

By General Aviation News Staff · June 18, 2016 ·

The East Hill Flying Club at Ithaca Tompkins Regional Airport in New York just got word that a $619,935 grant has been approved by Governor Andrew Cuomo to build a new 2,500-square-foot flight training center at the airport.

A report from WHCU Radio quotes airport manager Mike Hall, who notes that flying club has been the largest flight training institution in upstate New York for years.

Reader Interactions

Share this story

  • Share on Twitter Share on Twitter
  • Share on Facebook Share on Facebook
  • Share on LinkedIn Share on LinkedIn
  • Share on Reddit Share on Reddit
  • Share via Email Share via Email

Become a better informed pilot.

Join 110,000 readers each month and get the latest news and entertainment from the world of general aviation direct to your inbox, daily.

This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.

Curious to know what fellow pilots think on random stories on the General Aviation News website? Click on our Recent Comments page to find out. Read our Comment Policy here.

Comments

  1. ManyDecadesGA says

    June 18, 2016 at 4:23 pm

    Just what this country needs… taxpayer funded Flying Clubs.

    F16s have no AESA radars yet, A10s are being proposed for phaseout, B52s and KC135s are in service over 50 years old… but we still have money for Flying Clubs???, to be funded by more wise use of hard earned tax money.

    What a travesty.

    • Rod Beck says

      June 19, 2016 at 8:26 pm

      You got it – ManyDecadesGA!: “Get ______ in the White House – FREE flying lessons for ALL”?
      THIS my fiend; IS “what’s wrong with this picture”!

Primary Sidebar

Read the Latest Issue

Cover of the September 17, 2026 edition of General Aviation News
September 17, 2026

Featured Video

https://youtu.be/_5GlVdS1gpo?si=PEX8RGgp1XCz3-uM

Become A Better Informed Pilot.

Join 110,000 readers each month and get the latest news and entertainment from the world of general aviation direct to your inbox, daily.

This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.

Recent Comments

  • Art Friedman on Five Things Your GA Airport Manager Wishes You Knew
  • Are Cee on In-Flight Weather Radar Is Failing General Aviation
  • Javier Lifa on In-Flight Weather Radar Is Failing General Aviation
  • Thomas J Young on Fuel-Oil Contamination Leads to Cessna 172 Engine Power Loss
  • Mark Gibson on Picture of the Day: Cycling Past College Park Airport
  • Andrew J Venuto on Fuel-Oil Contamination Leads to Cessna 172 Engine Power Loss
  • ERIC TAYLOR on What I Learned Towing Banners
  • jimh in ca on Fuel-Oil Contamination Leads to Cessna 172 Engine Power Loss
  • Jamie Beckett on Five Things Your GA Airport Manager Wishes You Knew
  • Robert B on Five Things Your GA Airport Manager Wishes You Knew

© 2026 Flyer Media, Inc. All rights reserved. Privacy Policy.

  • About
  • Advertise
  • Comment Policy
  • Submit Press Release
  • Contact Us
  • Privacy Policy
  • Writer’s Guidelines
  • Photographer’s Guidelines