Molly McMillin

Managing Editor, Business Aviation

Wichita, KS

Summary

Molly McMillin, a 25-year aviation journalist, is managing editor of business aviation for the Aviation Week Network and editor-in-chief of The Weekly of Business Aviation, an Aviation Week market intelligence report. 

Before joining Aviation Week, Molly spent nearly 20 years at the Wichita Eagle, Kansas’ largest newspaper, where she served as senior aviation/aerospace reporter.

Along the way, she has had some unique experiences, including a ride with the U.S.A.F. Thunderbirds Demonstration Team, a parachute jump with the U.S. Army Golden Knights demonstration team and a ride in the back of an Air Force tanker watching a boom operator fuel a fighter jet. Her reporting has taken her across the world. Molly became a private pilot in 2011.

She has won multiple state and national journalism awards, including awards from the Society of Business Editors and Writers, Heart of America and the Kansas Press Association. She was the recipient of the 2013 National Business Aviation Association’s Gold Wing Award for Journalism Excellence and was featured in a book on Kansas called Ad Astra: 161 Adventurers, Astronauts, Discoverers, Explorers, Pilots, Pioneers and Scientists.

A graduate of Wichita State University, Molly was selected the 2014 Outstanding Alumni at WSU’s Elliott School of Communication.

Articles

By Molly McMillin
Honeywell projects deliveries of 7,300 new business jets from 2021 to 2030 valued at $235 billion, down 4% from its 10-year forecast a year ago, the company said in a new Global Business Aviation Outlook.
Marketplace

By Molly McMillin
Citation Xs might be in their second decade, but they are still popular.
Business Aviation Week

By Molly McMillin
David Coleal is the outgoing president of Bombardier Aviation. Molly McMillin, editor-in-chief of The Weekly of Business Aviation, spoke to him just days before his departure was announced on Oct. 1 for Business Aviation Week 2020 about how the business jet-maker was adapting to the new business environment following the outbreak of COVID-19.
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