Backcountry Flying

Long, forgiving strips can inspire adventurous pilots to go explore.

Several amphibious aircraft will get you where you want to go for your Sequatchie Valley adventure.

Ferrying an airplane for a friend takes a turn for the worse when a storm prompts a hasty reaction.

Arkansas’ Thaden Field tries to unite aviation’s history and its new generation.

Company teams with Jeppesen to support Recreational Aviation Foundation.

I’m old, I’m cranky. Why do I keep air-camping? There are so many reasons.

Collaboration adds new event to 2022 series points race at Somerton Airport in February.

The High Sierra Fly-In 2021 kicked off early last week on the Dead Cow Airstrip and surrounding dry lake bed in northern Nevada, with a collective community event that brought in nearly 1,000 vehicles (aircraft and campers and more…) and roughly 2,000 spectators and participants. The STOL Drag competition pitted long-time backcountry pilots and newcomers […]

Van’s Aircraft dropped a bomb at EAA’s AirVenture last week, announcing a—wait for it—high wing backcountry airplane. The company didn’t make a big deal of the major news and there was no official announcement. But Van’s vice president and COO Greg Hughes confirmed that the company is in the process of building an all-metal, high-wing […]

In May 2020, Bearhawk Aircraft launched the latest addition to its line of kit-built backcountry-ready airplanes with the Model 5—a six-place tailwheel aircraft “designed to fly fast and land slow,” according to a company release on March 1. That news shared that the first four of the Model 5 kits had gone out to customers, […]