Search Results for: Cessna 172

It’s hard to let go of the ‘right’ aircraft and go looking for another.

An overseas acquisition turns into one ‘heck of a great story.’

Here’s the second in our series on getting started with an at-home flight simulator.

Six new Textron Aviation aircraft are joining the world’s largest single-engine piston fleet.

Life’s better when flying with real-deal pilots.

The single-engine piston, diesel-powered Diamond DA50RG with a Continental CD-300 engine sets the bar for the category. We put one of the first ones to the test in Austria.

Bruce Springsteen got it right: You can’t start a fire without a spark.

A short flight generates sobering thoughts on insurance, eyesight, and avgas.

When Dawn and I bought our previous airplane, a 1953 Piper Pacer, we vowed to fly it at least ten hours a month, and indeed we clocked some 220 hours over 18 months of ownership. This time around, I’ve only flown our Stinson 40 hours since buying it in August.

The NTSB links a potentially preventable Cessna 337 Skymaster accident in remote Alaska to an inadvertent stall.