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Editor’s Note: This article is part of a month-long series to mark Women’s History Month: March 1: Pioneers of Women’s Aviation | March 2: Carole Hopson | March 4: Martha King | March 8: Association for Women in Aviation Maintenance | March 11: The Air Race Classic | March 15: Sisters of the Skies | […]

Many airports across the country have on-site air museums that can be a real treat.

There’s something classic and exciting about flying a tailwheel using stick-and-rudder skills. In fact, some of these airplanes date back as far as World War I or II.  While earning your tailwheel endorsement, you’ll build a new skill set and broaden your ability to fly different kinds of aircraft. You’ll also broaden your horizons. You […]

With the legendary WWII veteran’s passing at age 101, we reflect on his special service in the Berlin Airlift.

Legendary pilot has done it all, from movies and TV to world speed records.

Gaston’s White River Resort caretaker says maintaining that Bermuda is tough, but well worth it.

The Wright brothers’ first flight isn’t the only aviation happening that occurred on December 17.

If you’re like us, there’s at least one aircraft that you thank the aviation gods for.

For many of us, the initial steps toward aircraft ownership begin at an early age. Sitting in a stuffy grade-school classroom and being presented with the finer points of the New Deal, the parallelogram, and mitochondria, our eyes wandered to a sliver of blue sky visible in a window, and our minds followed. Perhaps our […]

The silence on the Potomac Approach frequency was stark. It was September 17, 2001, and I was flying a Piper Archer from KFDK in Frederick, Maryland, down to Newport News (KPHF), Virginia, logging two hours down and 1.7 on the return. I filed IFR on a day of shockingly blue skies because that was the […]