Oct 17, 2025 | Aviation Law
I truly hope that this fatal crash of a Piper Cherokee is no more than an isolated incident but it’s certainly a cautionary tale for pilots and especially for flight schools. What makes it stand out for me is that it involves airports with which I am familiar. The...
Aug 23, 2025 | Aviation Law
I am freshly returned from the annual meeting of the Lawyer Pilots Bar Association, the largest aerospace law bar association in the country and one that I had the honor of leading a few years back. The meeting was held in Philadelphia. Leaving aside my hesitation...
Jun 24, 2025 | Aviation Law
New Jersey has a long history of leadership in aviation. Until 1939 Newark Airport was the busiest commercial airport in the United States. Bader Field in Atlantic City was where the word “airport” was born. In the 1950’s and early 1960’s New Jersey had more than...
Jun 24, 2025 | Aviation Law
Pilots have a saying that aviators don’t “die;” they “fly west.” It’s an expression that goes back to the Allied pilots of World War I. On June 3, 2021, there was a sort of formation flight west of two aviators. One you may not have heard of: Webster B. “Dan” Todd,...
Jun 11, 2025 | Aviation Law
Of Those to Whom Much Is Given The following is adapted from Frank Steinberg’s President’s Message in the Spring 2020 edition of the Lawyer-Pilots Bar Association Journal and is offered here in the hope that it may be interesting and useful to a wider...
Jun 11, 2025 | Aviation Law
Frank Steinberg has long been an advocate for general aviation airports and pilots in New Jersey and its environs. He was recently interviewed by the NY Times to discuss the burden on the aviation community that accompanies President Trump’s repeated visits to...
