New Upgrades make Airports more User Friendly

The downtown airport in Kansas City Missouri has had a major twenty million dollar upgrade project which includes self service gas pumps that pilots can pull right up to for re-fueling.  The gas will be competitively priced compared to other local sources, but pilots will be able to fill up on their own and pay [...]

Government Grants help with Runway Upgrades

The Keokuk Municipal Airport in Iowa has received about $300 thousand dollars in government funds to go toward much needed repairs for the ailing runway.  This is just one example of many in recent times of airports attempting to make the necessary adjustments and repairs in order to be able to provide the service that [...]

Custom Logos Allow You to Brand Airplane Tugs

Businesses spend thousands of dollars to create and promote their brand. Building brand awareness is a way to distinguish yourself from your competitors. Some describe branding as a promise you make to potential customers that you will consistently provide them with a valuable product. When you deliver on your promise, customers learn to associate your [...]

Conservation Helps more than the Environment

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 [...]

Low Profits may leave some Airlines Struggling to stay in the Air

It’s not only major companies like Air Canada and Air France (who both reported losses last quarter), that are suffering, pretty much every company in the aviation industry is feeling the pinch. Airlines are having to up the costs of many amenities like: checked bags, in-flight drinks and blankets to try and make up [...]

Lindy Aircraft Products Suits Pilots of All Types

As a bush pilot servicing hunters, fishermen and explorers in wildernesses, ranging from Alaska to the Amazon you have a pretty tough job. Not only do you have to deal with flying in adverse weather conditions, you need to land on really rough terrains, from icy plateaus to swampy lagoons and everything else in between. [...]

Ergonomic Aircraft Tugs Improve FBO Workers’ Job Satisfaction

Although they may be happy to have a job in the midst of a recession, American workers are increasingly unhappy with their jobs. A survey by the Conference Board research group found job satisfaction is at its lowest in 22 years. Only 45% of U.S. workers said they were satisfied with their jobs. This is [...]

Our Aircraft Tugs Work with Wheel Pants

“Will they work with my wheel pants?” That’s one of the most asked questions we get when talking to customers about innovative Lindy’s aircraft tugs. And the answer is, YES. All three Lindy’s airplane tug models will work on planes both with and without wheel pants. All of our aircraft tugs also work equally well [...]

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 buying [...]

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 tow tractors [...]