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Tim is the owner and editor-in-chief of AeroCorner, where he has spent the last seven years overseeing aviation content covering aircraft, airlines, airports, and the broader aviation industry. Through years of researching, editing, and publishing aviation-focused content, he has developed extensive practical knowledge of commercial aviation and air travel. Based in Asia and a frequent traveler himself, Tim also brings firsthand passenger experience to AeroCorner’s coverage. Outside of publishing, he has also explored aviation firsthand through hands-on flight training in New Zealand.
Most billionaires buy a private jet and move on. Larry Ellison bought a Gulfstream, sued a city for the right to land it after dark, staged mock dogfights over the Pacific in a retired Italian Air Force trainer, and tried to import a decommissioned MiG-29 fighter jet from Russia. The US government stopped him on...
The tail numbers are the first clue. N887WM commemorates August 1987, the month Bill Gates met Melinda French at a Microsoft dinner in New York. N194WM marks January 1994, the month they married in Hawaii. Both registrations are held by MENTE LLC, a Gates-controlled entity in Washington State, and both aircraft are Gulfstream G650ERs worth...
There are more than 50,000 commercial flights in the air on any given day, but commercial airliners represent only a small fraction of the aircraft types currently flying. Add military jets, private planes, helicopters, drones, gliders, and the newest eVTOL air taxis, and the full picture of what humanity puts into the sky runs to...
ValuJet Flight 592 departed Miami International Airport on the afternoon of May 11, 1996, bound for Atlanta on what should have been a routine two-hour flight. The aircraft was a McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32, registration N904VJ. There were 105 passengers and 5 crew members on board. The weather was clear, visibility unrestricted. Six minutes after takeoff,...
On the morning of March 27, 1977, a bomb in the passenger terminal at Gran Canaria’s Las Palmas Airport diverted dozens of flights to Los Rodeos Airport on the neighboring island of Tenerife. Los Rodeos was a small regional airport, built for inter-island traffic, and by early afternoon its taxiways were lined with wide-body jets...
When Mark Zuckerberg’s brand-new Gulfstream G700 lifted off from Monterey, California on its maiden flight in December 2024, it burned 5,500 kilograms of fuel and deposited 19 tonnes of CO2 into the atmosphere before touching down at his 1,500-acre estate on Kauai. It was a fitting debut for an aircraft that costs roughly $80 million...
When Jeff Bezos touched down in Venice for his 2025 wedding to Lauren Sánchez, he didn’t arrive alone. Around 90 private jets descended on northern Italy that weekend, ferrying tech royalty, celebrities, and world leaders to what became the most photographed private aviation event in recent memory. That spectacle, more than any single aircraft, captures...
Commercial aviation is the safest form of long-distance travel in the history of transportation. That fact is not inevitable, and it is not accidental. It is the result of generations of accident investigators, engineers, and regulators who examined failures with methodical precision and then changed the rules. Every time something went wrong and people died,...
US Airways Flight 1549 departed LaGuardia Airport’s Runway 04 at 15:24:54 local time on January 15, 2009, bound for Charlotte Douglas with 150 passengers and 5 crew members on board. At 15:27:11, approximately 2.5 minutes into the climb and at an altitude of about 2,818 feet over Queens, New York, the aircraft entered a flock...
Air France Flight 447 departed Rio de Janeiro’s Guarulhos Airport at 22:29 local time on June 1, 2009, bound for Paris Charles de Gaulle with 216 passengers and 12 crew members on board. Three and a half hours into the flight, as the Airbus A330 crossed the equatorial Atlantic at 35,000 feet, the autopilot disconnected....
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