Signs of Better Times – Ensure Best Service With Aircraft Tugs

There are a number of financial positives being reported from the aviation industry: American Airlines and Airtran Airways both reported increases in traffic during the month of March and though US Airways traffic remained virtually the same, the company reported a gain in revenue.

Increases in traffic and revenue gains are both good signs for [...]

Making the Grade with Lindbergh Aircraft Towing Equipment

FAA airport inspections are underway, and the Nashville International Airport managed to net a perfect score on their inspection. The FAA inspections includes inspection or airport records of incidents, actions that were taken and goes over reports of in hose inspections and examines the airport’s overall compliance with safety regulations in virtually all areas of [...]

Pennsylvania Airports are the Latest to Receive Grants for Repairs

Nearly fourteen million dollars in state and federal grants will be divided among 32 Pennsylvania airports for necessary repairs, upgrades and safety enhancement. The different plans for the funds vary from equipment upgrades to runway repairs and just about everything in between.

Aviation is a huge industry in the state of Pennsylvania, but many of [...]

Safety is more than just a blip on the Radar – Improve Safety with Aircraft Tugs

The FAA has announced that the Air Traffic Organization will now be operating under and monitored by a Safety Management System which will allow for the closer monitoring of equipment and procedures in the aviation industry.

This new system, which could be in full swing by the end of 2010, will analyze and possibly effect [...]

The Business of Aviation

A recent editorial from Mercury News reported that despite astounding improvements in recent times that the San Jose Airport was still struggling to meet their financial needs in order to stay fully operational.

During tough financial times, businesses need a steady customer flow in order to keep the proverbial doors open. The San Jose Airport [...]

Helicopter Tugs Makes Major Improvement with Helicopter Movement

Helicopters are an incredibly versatile tool in the aviation industry; they are widely used by emergency medical personnel to transport critical patients for care, they are used by police to track criminals who are on the run in vehicles or on foot, and they are used by radio and television news crews to provide up [...]

Conservation Helps more than the Environment with Aircraft Tugs

Enterprise, the rental car and airport shuttle powerhouse, recently made the announcement for plans to convert its entire fleet of buses to 20% biodiesel over the course of the next five years. They are putting the plan into action immediately with a conversion of every bus across nine of the fifty North American markets that [...]

Aircraft Tugs: Smaller Is Better!

In America we tend to think that bigger is better. It’s a national philosophy that has worked for us for decades. Bigger cars, bigger houses, bigger banks, supersized fast food — we’ve built our society around the concept that anything worth doing is worth doing BIG!

Well look where that’s gotten us. Fuel-conscious consumers are [...]

Versatile Aircraft Tugs Point Way to Future

The future is now and you can see it in Lindy’s aircraft tugs. To remain competitive going into the future, experts predict that the aviation industry and its attendant ground support operations will have to work harder, smarter and leaner. Marketed for FBO, corporate or individual ground operations, Lindy’s versatile aircraft tugs and aircraft tow [...]

2010 Gets Off to an Optimistic Start

Those of us at Lindbergh Aircraft Tug Co. wish all of you a Happy and Prosperous New Year. In America, the first weeks of a new year always seem to bring unrivaled optimism and 2010 is no different. Despite the difficult struggles of 2009, a recent AP poll found that 82% of Americans believe that [...]