Robert Stapleton submitted this photo and note: “Volunteers who helped out at the Alaska Aviation Museum’s 2024 Fly-By Festival gather in front of a Grumman Goose with a long history of flights by many pilots in Alaska. Despite overcast skies and rain the whole day, more than 500 folks attended the festival, which included aircraft fly-bys, exhibits, live music, food trucks, and a fundraiser raffle. Photo Courtesy of Phyllis Kilgore.”
Photo of the Day
Picture of the Day: At the seaplane base
Rob Stapleton sent in this photo with a note: “A Cessna 185 floatplane sits moored to the east shore of Lake Hood Seaplane Base in Anchorage, Alaska, Sept. 1, 2024. Autumn is quickly coming with glorious skies, cooler temperatures, and dwindling daylight evenings.”
Picture of the Day: A great little airport
James Good submitted this photo and note: “Returning from a three-day trip with my wife, Diane, we stopped for fuel at Tulelake, California, a great little airport in far North California. The Ercoupe is a 1948 E model, one of the last ones built at the original Maryland factory.”
Picture of the Day: GUMPS
Robert Bryant submitted this photo and note: “The aftermath of forgetting Gas, Undercarriage, Mixture, Prop, Switches.”
Picture of the Day: A calm and lazy summer day
Rusty Eichorn submitted this photo and note: “On Lake Winnie in northern Minnesota on Aug. 18, 2024, with our 1979 Cessna 180K.”
Picture of the Day: Reflections
Matthew Baker submitted this photo and note: “After a rainy day I caught a reflection of the Cessna 172 in a puddle.”
Picture of the Day: Penny for your thoughts
Susan Loricchio submitted this photo and note: “Mike Damiani, a pilot at Golden Age Air Museum in Pennsylvania, looks on before getting ready to fly Mildred, the Sopwith Pup replica.”
Picture of the Day: Back from annual
Gilles Roy submitted this photo and note: “I love my T182T. I’ve owned it since new in 2007. From the Pacific to the Atlantic Ocean, it has seen the best world.”
Picture of the Day: Flying with friends
Trace Ralston submitted this photo and note: “This photo was taken when I was flying around with some of my very good friends. In this particular photo we were at Kern Vally Airport (L05) in California, enjoying an airport breakfast.”