The most common suggestion I have received concerning the future of unleaded avgas is that there is a need for two grades of fuels, not just one.
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New online service matches CFIs and pilots
It’s a few hours after dinner and you’re planning your first cross-country flight as a newly minted private pilot. Wouldn’t it be comforting to go over the weather forecast or talk through the best way to navigate an unfamiliar busy airspace with a CFI? Now you can with InstaCFI.
It’s not my airport, unless it is
When is the best time to start an airport preservation and promotion project? 20 years ago. When’s the next best time? Today.
Society of Experimental Test Pilots honor pilot of all-electric aircraft
Steve Crane, the test pilot for Eviation Aircraft, a manufacturer of all-electric aircraft, won the 2023 Iven C. Kincheloe Award for Alice’s first flight.
San Diego museum honors black aviators with new exhibit
The centerpiece of the “Breaking Barriers” exhibit is an animatronic featuring Benjamin Oliver Davis, Jr. exploring the history of pioneering Black American aviators and astronauts, as well as a P-51 Mustang painted in the Tuskegee Airmen’s distinctive “Red Tail” Squadron design.
Grant funds improvements at KAXQ
A grant from the Recreational Aviation Foundation (RAF) is funding new picnic tables and fire rings at Clarion County Airport (KAXQ) in Pennsylvania, designed to make the backcountry airport attractive for camping.
GA remembers AOPA’s McSpadden
The aviation community is remembering Richard McSpadden, senior vice president of the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association’s Air Safety Institute, who died in a plane crash Oct. 1, 2023, near Lake Placid, New York.
Illinois EAA chapter flies more than 20,000 Young Eagles
EAA Chapter 579 in Aurora, Illinois, which has been one of the most active chapters over three decades of the Young Eagles program, reached a milestone on Sept. 23, 2023, when it surpassed 20,000 Young Eagles flown.
New hangar planned for KLEX
A new 50,000-square-foot hangar is in the works at Blue Grass Airport (KLEX) in Lexington, Kentucky.