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Clear and sunny weather after two years of hurricanes drew about 3,000 visitors to see what was new — and old — in aviation at the Virginia Regional EAA Fly-in earlier this month, at Dinwiddie County Airport in Petersburg, Va. Nearly 500 aircraft flew in during the weekend from states up and down the Eastern […]

James Hatsis isn’t a golfer but, boy, does he love the game. That’s because about 90% of the business he gets at his FBO, Oconee Air Service at Greene County Regional Airport (3J7) in Greensboro, Georgia, is made up of golfers. The airport, located between Atlanta and Augusta, is a destination for pilots from all […]

It bills itself as the “Seaside Golf Capital of the World” — and rightly so. Myrtle Beach, S.C., boasts more golf holes per person than any other city in the nation. More than 4.13 million rounds of golf are played each year at the 117 golf courses in the area. And you can bet that […]

It’s been called some of the best public golf on Earth and can be found along the Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail in Alabama. The trail starts in the northern part of the state in Muscle Shoals and winds its way through the state, down to Mobile. For pilots wanting to play the trail, there’s […]

Florida is well-known for its great flying weather. That weather also makes it ideal for golf. There are more than 1,000 golf courses throughout the state. And while courses may be getting crowded now as snowbirds head South, one tourism official notes that from May through October golf courses “are never crowded, so you can […]

Ever wish you could play on the same golf course as the professionals? You can, at North Carolina’s Pinehurst Resort, site of the 2005 U.S. Open Championship. The 2,000-acre resort, which boasts eight championship golf courses, is just one of three U.S. Open sites open to the public, according to Janeen Driscoll, communications manager. And […]

In olden times – that’s 60 to 70 years ago – wrist watches with glow-in-the-dark radium numbers were popular. Whether we wore a Timex or a Rolex, that’s what we wanted. Our hands didn’t fall off . In those days, many aircraft instruments glowed in the dark. That, too, was accomplished with minute amounts of […]

Want to know where to find fuel and fuel prices to suit your itinerary and wallet? Control Vision, creators of the AnywhereMap, AnywhereWx, Pocket Plates and Anywhere EFB portable navigation systems, has the answer at 100LL.com. 100LL.com updates fuel, FBO and airport information on a continuous basis. You can use it to search for fuel […]

The Lone Star Flight Museum in Galveston, Texas, has on display 35 original or first edition prints from The Dee and Betty Howard Aviation Art Collection, through September of next year. Featured are paintings by such recognized artists as Douglas Ettridge and Stan Stokes.Ettridge was born in London but spent many years working in the […]