Jason McDowell

A visit to an orchard with its own airstrip yields a load of Honeycrisp apples, fresh cider, apple cider donuts, and a renewed appreciation for airplane ownership.

No type rating is required to enjoy these aircraft.

Vought V-173 prototype’s 427 square feet of wing area gave it the capability of taking off nearly vertically with typical wind over a ship’s deck.

A Cessna 170 owner goes on a quest to find the most unusual FAA-approved modifications for his airplane. Here are the top five.

When fine-tuning your aircraft, it’s important to understand how one modification might unexpectedly affect another.

It’s not that I didn’t have permission to land at the private grass strip. It’s that the person who granted me permission to land there wasn’t technically the owner.

The WACO Aristocraft was a single-engine, four-place aircraft targeting the scores of pilots returning from World War II.

On a day when mechanical frustrations mounted, one of the single greatest features of an airplane turned out to be its former owner.

Few cargo aircraft utilized five different engine configurations, encompassing piston, turboprop, jet, and combined piston/jet power.

With the rear seat removed, the 1953 Cessna 170B has almost exactly the same amount of cargo volume as a Subaru Crosstrek SUV.