This year’s event will look a bit different with changes due to the pandemic.
FAA introduces aircraft pilot workforce development program
Grants from $25,000 to $500,000 will be awarded to programs that train high school students to be pilots, aerospace engineers, or drone pilots.
Universal Avionics launches UA Academy
Courses are designed for pilots, technicians, installers, and others flying and managing aircraft with UA equipment.
Picture of the Day: Better safe than sorry
Erik Levin submitted this photo and note: “Seeing three single-cell airmass thunderstorms, including lightning, develop near the traffic pattern at Purdue University Airport (KLAF) in West Lafayette, Indiana, quickly triggered the ‘better safe than sorry’ thought process, followed up with a full stop short approach.” Would you like to have your photo featured as Picture […]
Pandemic tanks aircraft sales in first half of 2020
“It should come as no surprise to anyone that the COVID-19 pandemic severely impacted the general aviation industry in the second quarter.”
Get your Reno fix this weekend
While there’s no races this year, you can revisit some of Reno’s top moments from the 2018 and 2019 seasons this weekend.
Port Townsend Aero Museum re-opens
“Covid-safe protocols are in place and masks are required.”
Picture of the Day: An Alaskan sunset
Pete VanDeHei submitted this photo and note: “Sunset picture I took of my 1954 Cessna 170B on a lake west of Fairbanks, Alaska, during a moose hunt.” Would you like to have your photo featured as Picture of the Day? You can submit it via this form. All photos sent in for Picture of the […]
RAF funds four-legged project at wilderness airstrip
A team of mules was trailed in to plow and grade a 2,500-foot parallel turf runway that had fallen into disuse.