Bill Carey

Bill Carey is a senior editor with Aviation Week and the author of “Enter the Drones: The FAA and UAVs in America,” released by Schiffer Publishing in July 2016. Based in Washington, D.C., he covers the airline, defense and unmanned aircraft systems industries.

Carey has three decades of experience as a newspaper reporter and aviation writer and editor. Prior to joining Aviation Week in November 2017, he worked for Aviation International News and before that served four years as the editor of Avionics Magazine. Carey received the National Business Aviation Association Gold Wing Award in October 2017 and the British Royal Aeronautical Society “Aerospace Journalist of the Year” award in the business aircraft category in 1997. He has been a finalist several times in the international competition, most recently in 2018.

Carey is a 1982 graduate of Syracuse University and holds a master’s degree in journalism and public affairs from American University in Washington, D.C.