The New Owner

When purchasing one’s first aircraft, buyers often spend little to no time evaluating their checklists and flows.

Pilot finds his airport strikes a perfect balance of enough activity to be interesting but small enough to foster a community environment.

Each of these items has been tested and found to make this pilot’s airplane ownership just a little bit easier or more enjoyable.

As cold weather approaches, an aircraft owner learns the pros and cons of a custom engine cover.

Here are five tips to help ensure smooth assimilation into a new microsociety of hangar tenants.

It can make more financial sense to buy an airplane that has already had the upgrade installed rather than purchase a stock airplane and do it later.

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.

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.