Bill Carey

Senior Editor, Business Aviation

Washington, DC

Summary

Based in Washington, D.C., Bill covers business aviation and advanced air mobility for Aviation Week Network. A former newspaper reporter, he has also covered the airline industry, military aviation, commercial space and unmanned aircraft systems. Prior to joining Aviation Week in November 2017, he worked for Aviation International News and Avionics and Rotor & Wing magazines.

Bill was the recipient of the National Business Aviation Association's Gold Wing Award in 2017 and 2022 for his reporting on drones and advanced air mobility, respectively, and in 1997 received the British Royal Aeronautical Society Aerospace Journalist of the Year award in the business aviation category. He is the author of the book, Enter The Drones, The FAA and UAVs in America, published in 2016.

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Articles

By Bill Carey
Ranking officers with the U.S. military services concede that their weapons systems training technologies are dated, dispersed and lagging in interoperability.
Defense and Space

By Bill Carey
Boeing built a sophisticated weapons system trainer early in the process of building its new-design jet with Saab for the U.S. Air Force’s T-X trainer requirement.
Defense and Space

By Bill Carey
The U.S. Navy is investigating the Nov. 22 crash of a Northrop C-2A Greyhound twin turboprop in the Philippine Sea.
Defense and Space