Cessna Aircraft News

First-year cadet Breighanna Urdahl learns how to fly the Cessna 172 using the Air Force Junior ROTC classroom flight simulator as cadet Aaron Gaudlitz observes.

At a time when Wichita's general aviation industry struggles to regain its former altitude, aviators are concerned the Obama administration wants to saddle it with a $100 per flight user fee tax.

Shelby Scorse, the daughter of Jeff and Sonya Scorse of Lunenburg, is one of three youths who have won an aviation scholarship from the Greater Boston Experimental Airplane Association Chapter 106.

New pilot Jarin Leake was recently reunited with Stephanie Wells, who took him up on a Young Eagles flight in 2006.

Dubbed hitchhiking in the air, Flytenow is a service that matches pilots of small planes with people who want to ditch major airlines and experience the thrill of riding in such close quarters.

When arriving at the first stop on our pilots association's annual poker run, one of our pilots said on the frequency, for all to hear:... Late on a low-traffic night, an Ozark flight requested landing instructions into Des Moines, reporting his altitude as 6,000 feet.

"It was really windy, so we couldn't go over the mountain," remembers Mariah Williams, a 9-year-old from Middletown, Maryland.

If you're a private pilot or an airline transport pilot, it doesn't take long to discover that the "small world" axiom is very true within the aviation community.

For this week's column I decided to "just wing it," and by that I mean, "go above and beyond," and by that I mean, "take a flying leap," and by that I mean: combine all of the above idioms into a singular truth - I flew a freakin' airplane - and am now officially cooler than you .

Late on a low-traffic night, an Ozark flight requested landing instructions into Des Moines, reporting his altitude as 6,000 feet.

Local pilot Natalie Campana-Lucas is working in conjunction with Pier Aviation to organize the area's second-annual "Women of Aviation" program, set to take place from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday at the Wheeling Ohio County Airport.

Eight years ago, a December 11, 2006 Electronic Drum posting reports that our then 14 year-old helicopter and airplane pilot successfully landed a Robinson R44 helicopter at 11:05 A.M. PST at the Compton/Woodley airport, making him the youngest African American pilot to fly a helicopter round trip internationally thus netting him at that time a ... (more)

Late on a low-traffic night, an Ozark flight requested landing instructions into Des Moines, reporting his altitude as 6,000 feet.

ON A MILD SPRING DAY IN LATE MAY 1987, military analyst John Pike was at the U.S. embassy in Moscow on business when he looked out the window and saw a small airplane circling over Red Square.

It's a bit of a mystery how the aeronautical lexicon came to include "deadstick."

Regional airlines are already battling it out for pilot hires, and signing bonuses are part of the mix.

Like so many of us who love aviation, I was lucky enough to have someone in my life who introduced me to the thrill of flight at a young age - in my case, my dad.

Always smiling and a familiar face at aviation events in Anchorage Jamie Patterson-Simes has earned her place among Alaska's finest flight instructors by attaining Master Flight Instructor status.

In 2010, I traveled to Haiti to deliver medical supplies in the aftermath of the powerful earthquake that leveled much of the area in and around impoverished Port-au-Prince.

You are on approach in busy airspace with an even busier cockpit...you are changing frequencies, receiving vectors, looking for traffic.... It was the late 1980s, and a Pan Am 727 was holding at Berlin Tegel.