There are some people who get as much joy out of restoring an aircraft as they do out of flying one. Steve Noyes, an A&P/IA and commercial pilot from Newbury, Massachusetts, is one of those people. Since 1985 he has operated Noyes Enterprises, which includes Birddogs by Noyes, a business dedicated to the restoration and modifications of Cessna L-19 […]
A type club for the light-sport crowd
You don’t need to own a vintage airplane to benefit from a type club or aircraft owners group. The owners of Flight Design CTs have one of the most active owners associations in existence — not bad for an airplane that arrived in the United States on the first wave of the Light-Sport Aircraft (LSA) rule […]
Northwest Aviation Conference attracts crowds
If it is the third weekend of February in the Pacific Northwest that means you’ll find a good portion of the aviation population at the Northwest Aviation Conference and Trade Show, held at the Puyallup Fairgrounds southeast of Tacoma. This year the event spanned Feb. 20-22. The three day conference began with an aviation career […]
Fantasy of Flight reopens; plans for Act III underway
After a year of dormancy, Fantasy of Flight, Kermit Weeks’ vintage aviation attraction in Polk City, Florida, has reopened to the public in a limited fashion. “We have opened a small scale museum housed in our former maintenance hangar,” explains Kandice Stephens, operations and events manager for Fantasy of Flight. “We will have 11 to […]
Hangars for sale at KGEU
Last month the Super Bowl brought more than airplanes to Arizona’s Glendale Municipal Airport (KGEU) — it also brought potential buyers for property located on the airport. At least that’s the hope of Brian Hufft, chief financial officer of Glendale Hangars. Glendale Hangars is selling 103 hangars, along with a number of shade rows and 11 acres of open land […]
FAA withdraws ATD rule
The FAA has withdrawn a change to a rule that would have permitted a wider use of aviation training devices for instrument flight training in the U.S. — because the rule received two adverse comments. Published on Dec. 3, 2014, the rule would have let pilots credit up to 20 hours of instrument time in an Advanced […]
Takeoff goes bad for Cessna
The pilot of the Cessna 172 was attempting to land near Okeechobee, Fla. He engaged one notch of flaps and applied brakes and full power to initiate a short-field takeoff from a dirt road. Shortly after takeoff, a gust of wind struck the airplane, and it subsequently turned left. The nose hit a barbed wire […]
Type Club celebrates the Cessna 195
“You should see all the Cessna 195s!” You hear this all the time at AirVenture when someone comes back from Vintage Aircraft Parking. Often, there are rows and rows of the high-wing taildraggers with their distinctive bumped cowls. It’s not unusual to find multi-generational families of C195 owners camped beneath the wings of their airplanes, […]
Type club welcomes new pilot to the fold
Jan Johnson, a self-described caretaker of a 1952 LC-126C (the military variant of the C-195) living in the Silicon Valley of California, says the enthusiastic technological and emotional support of the International Cessna 195 Club were invaluable when she decided the iconic round engine Cessna was her aircraft of choice. In February 2009, a life-long interest […]