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A record-setting 650,000 visitors flocked to Oshkosh for this year’s airshow, topping 2021 by 42,000.

Though firmly rooted in aviation’s earliest days—it was founded in 1866—the Royal Aeronautical Society advances firmly into the future on a number of fronts. One of the most recent of these missions has been the opening of the society’s new National Aerospace Library Film Archive. Though the library itself—housed near the Farnborough airport in the […]

Today, Jennifer Henderson is an engineering project pilot for the 787 with the Boeing Company, but her passion for aviation began during her childhood in southern Maryland. She grew up next to a naval base watching planes take off and land, and when her father took her to air shows, she knew that she wanted […]

For Trae Lefan’s 15th birthday, his parents got him a discovery flight in a Cessna 172, and that was all he needed to realize that this was what he wanted to do for the rest of his life. Today, the father of two is an airline pilot with ExpressJet, and while the road to becoming […]

“It totally changed my life,” Genesah Duffy says of her first flight. “The best experience I’ve ever had.” She was 25 when she took a discovery flight in a Cessna 172 out of St. Pete-Clearwater International Airport, and from there she was hooked. Genesah started out as a parts manager at Propellerhead Aviation, and she […]

When Jon Suddreth was a child, his father was a firefighter, working 24-hour shifts at a station near an airport. He spent a lot of time at that station, and so he watched his fair share of airplanes take off and land. Naturally, that stuck with him as he grew, and when he was fresh […]

When Tasman Carnes was seven-years-old, he wanted to be a boat captain, despite flying already being embedded in his DNA. His great-grandfather was issued Florida’s first pilot’s license, and he was also the first man to greet Charles Lindbergh when he returned from his legendary solo flight. But Tasman’s heart was set on piloting boats […]

When Timothy Fonseca was 5 years old, he knew he wanted to be a pilot. He founded Millennial Wings to share his love of aviation with other young people. Watch Fonseca and other young adults in the group enjoy a day of flying and fun during a recent outing in Florida. Are you a millennial […]

Caleb Gessmann is a contract pilot with multiple ratings and a current student on the path to obtain a degree in aviation. In between his studies and work, Gessmann enjoys frequent trips with family and friends to the Bahamas and other tropical destinations. “In the last year, I’ve been gone from home a lot. However, […]

Icon Aircraft recently launched two out of three planned flight training centers, one at the company’s headquarters in Vacaville, California and another in Tampa, Florida. The centers offer flight training for all levels of experience. Follow executive editor Pia Bergqvist as she practices flying the Icon A5 at the beautiful Lake Berryessa and Nut Tree […]