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Skybus shuts down, cancels all flights Friday, April 4, 2008 9:37 PM By Marla Matzer Rose THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH The first Skybus flight leaves Port Columbus on the morning of May 22, 2007. Dispatch photo The first Skybus flight leaves Port Columbus on the morning of May 22, 2007. Hot Issue What's your reaction to the closing of Skybus? Click here to comment. Disrupted travel plans? Did the end of Skybus affect your travel plans? Are you a Skybus employee who lost your job? E-mail us at readernet@dispatch.com. Some comments will be used in upcoming stories. Archive See a Skybus...

Taking to the skies on a tight schedule Quick turnarounds, point-to-point flights help Skybus get the most mileage out of its fleet Sunday, September 16, 2007 3:58 AM By Marla Matzer Rose THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH It's not hard for the boss of the fifth-largest and fastest-growing airline at Port Columbus to count the number of planes in his fleet. He can do it on one hand. Five planes are all it takes for Skybus Airlines to offer 14 departures to 11 cities from Port Columbus a day, a schedule that's attracting more than 80,000 passengers a month. While the fact...

SAN DIEGO, Aug. 7 (UPI) -- Science Applications International Corp. said Monday it has received U.S. Federal Aviation Administration approval for its SKYBUS 30K Airship UAS. The SKYBUS 30K Airship Unmanned Aerial System "was recently granted a Federal Aviation Administration U.S. Experimental Airworthiness Certificate for Unmanned Airships," SAIC said in a statement. SAIC said it had functioned as lead system integrator for the U.S. Naval Air Systems Command and that it had teamed up with Telford Aviation Services of Bangor, Maine, "to develop and test the prototype at the Loring Unmanned Aircraft Systems Test Center in Limestone, Maine." "The prototype...

PARIS, Oct 26, 2006 (AFP) - New low-cost US airline Skybus has placed a firm order for 65 Airbus A319 airliners, at a catalogue price of about 3.9 billion dollars (3.1 billion euros), the European aircraft manufacturer Airbus said on Thursday. Airbus, which is working on a vast restructuring plan to tackle production problems, said that Skybus had not yet decided which engines to order for the single-aisle aircraft. Airbus said: "In terms of aircraft, this transaction is one of the main orders placed with Airbus by an American airline." Skybus, based in the state of Ohio, is to begin...