Terry Hayes submitted this photo and note: “A pilot with Backcountry Flying Experience in Kalispell, Montana, shares with her student the beautiful places flying a seaplane allows you to venture.”
Photo of the Day
Picture of the Day: Matching rides
KT Budde-Jones sent in this photo with a note: “Stallion 51’s T-6 Texan with our new Lotus Emira. We made sure the stripe was the same color yellow as our cowling.”
Picture of the Day: Measuring the days with inches of ice
Rusty Eichorn submitted this photo and note: “Landed on the lake in front of my house to see how long it might be before I actually get to land in the water in front of my place near Grand Rapids, Minnesota.”
Picture of the Day: Cactus Fly-In
Karyn King submitted this photo and note: “Aviation photographer Karyn King took this cell phone photo at the 2025 Cactus Fly-In at Casa Grande, Arizona. It’s a fun gathering that draws the surrounding communities and aviation enthusiasts.”
Picture of the Day: Landing at I73
Leslie Vancil submitted this photo and note: “I was able to capture a screen shot from a landing at Moraine Air Park (I73) in Ohio.”
Picture of the Day: Taxiing at KOQN
Levi Lindsay submitted this photo and note: “I was at Brandywine Regional Airport (KOQN) in West Chester, Pennsylvania, with my grandfather when I snapped this photo of a Piper Cherokee taxiing.”
Picture of the Day: Bedded down for the night
Karl Kruger submitted this photo and note: “On my way from Helena, Montana, to Jamestown, Tennessee, in my RV-7A, I stopped over in Kirksville, Missouri, one of my favorite places to take a break. Nice folks at the FBO and pretty sunsets.”
Picture of the Day: Surreal mountains
Scott Crosby sent in this photo with a note: “The photo was taken from my 1978 Cessna 182Q, on a flight home to Donaldson Field Airport (KGYH) in Greenville, South Carolina, from Reading Regional Airport/Carl A Spaatz Field (KRDG) in Reading, Pennsylvania. The actual location where the photo was taken is somewhere near Roanoke, Virginia, about half-way into the four-hour flight.”
Picture of the Day: The reward of flying
Bill Gansemer submitted this photo and note: “The reward of flying — a transcendent experience of the magic of a sunset with its changing colors from 3,000 feet — where there is no past or future. I’m flying over North Central Iowa in my 1982 Piper Archer in early February 2025.”