Kirby Harrison

Journalist

Summary

Kirby Harrison is a freelance writer for The Weekly of Business Aviation, Business & Commercial Aviation and others in the Informa publishing chain. Harrison joined the Navy in 1962 and spent 20 years in the service, virtually all of it as a photojournalist, traveling from small islands in the South Pacific to Vietnam to the bombing of the Marine barracks in Lebanon. When Harrison retired from the Navy, he went back to college and graduated in 1971 from Syracuse University with a Bachelor's Degree in Photojournalism. Along the way, he spent two years as a news photographer at the Daily Press & Times Herald in Newport News, Virginia, and three years working for Studio Sebe in Nice, France as a photographer. More recently, before retiring, he worked nearly 20 years for Naval Aviation News.

Articles

By Kirby Harrison
Civil helicopter deliveries declined 16% in 2019—from 979 aircraft in 2018 to 819—with the largest drop coming from piston rotorcraft deliveries, the General Aviation Manufacturers Association (GAMA) says.
Marketplace

By Kirby Harrison
Women in Aviation International will hold its 31st annual conference March 5-7, leading up to International Women’s Day on March 8, aimed at “celebrating an equal world as an enabled world.”
Business Aviation

By Kirby Harrison
Private jet charter operator XOJet is moving its headquarters from Northern California to Fort Lauderdale, Florida. “(The change) allows us the
Business Aviation