A Just Aircraft SuperSTOL is being used by a team of Russian biologists to conduct surveys of wildlife populations along the Northeastern Russian Coast, primarily where it borders the Ural Mountains, the Barents Sea, and Kara Sea above the Arctic Circle. George V. Kirtaev, a pilot who was trained in Alaska to measure wildlife populations […]
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Deadline draws near to bid on RV-12
CAMPBELL RIVER, B.C. – Bidding for TeenFlight Campbell River Society’s Van’s RV-12, C-FPUN, closes Sunday, May 14, at 5 p.m. PDT. C-FPUN was built in Campbell River, British Columbia, Canada, by high school students enrolled in the TeenFlight program. Construction was overseen by experienced mentors and aircraft maintenance engineers during the 2014 to 2016 school […]
Scenes from the U.S. Flight Expo at KAVQ
Glenn Brasch of AirportCourtesyCars.com attended the U.S. Flight Expo at Marana Regional Airport in Arizona May 3-6 and snapped these photos for us.
Flight to Honor
By JACK NEUBACHER During SUN ‘n FUN 2017, the Polk County Veterans Council once again gave visitors to the fly-in the thrill of witnessing a group of special veterans as they returned from the latest Flight to Honor. This was the second annual Flight to Honor that returned during SUN ’n FUN activities, but a total […]
Court refers SMO agreement to merits panel
The U.S. Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit has referred an agreement by the FAA and the city of Santa Monica, California, to close Santa Monica Municipal Airport to a merits panel for further review about the legality of the settlement agreement. This May 4, 2017, ruling defers the FAA’s motion for dismissal of the […]
The Airplane as Art goes to auction
The Airplane as Art will be a featured attraction at a May 18, 2017, Heritage Auctions Photographs Auction in New York City. One of the most ambitious photography portfolio projects of the last 100 years, Bob Seidemann’s The Airplane as Art portfolio, at an estimated price of $150,000-$200,000, includes autographs from 75 of the photo […]
Pilots sought to help improve Jake’s Bar
The Recreational Aviation Foundation, EAA Chapter 42 and the National Park Service in Alaska are working together on a community service project to make Jake’s Bar (AK0) in Alaska a safer place to operate. The unimproved strip is a 1,000-foot gravel bar along the Chitina River in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park, 13 nm south of […]
Smoking fun Stearman
Gary Rower of Rower Airshows donated a flight in his Stearman to the SUN ‘n FUN Media pool drawing and on Friday morning, April 7, 2017, I won. Abandoning dignity, I raised my arms in the air and gave a whoop of joy. For the 24 hours leading up to the scheduled Saturday morning ride, I […]
Valor Studios honors veterans
If a picture is worth 1,000 words, the Makos family will never run out of stories to tell about the veterans featured in the art prints offered by the Valor Studios. The family-owned business deals in limited edition lithographs focused on military history. The business traces its roots to 1994, when brothers Adam and Bryan Makos created […]