Buyer’s Guide

Vintage airplane offers fun on the cheap.

The complex excitement of legacy personal twin-engine planes.

What’s the best one?

Understanding the generation gap.

Sometimes planes fall from production status despite being much beloved. Here are several that we hereby demand they put back into production.

This expanded definition of what constitutes a light plane and how they can be built could revive a segment facing existential challenges.

Until 35 years ago, light twins were a force to be reckoned with. Today, in both the used and new marketplace, they account for a sliver of their former glory, for some really good reasons, though the flip side of that coin, owners insist, is equally compelling.

Our quest for the definition was problematic. It became enlightening.

Still in production 60 years after its introduction, the Cessna Skylane remains one of the most popular used airplanes. Here’s what to look for in a vintage 182, from 1956 to 2021..

From amphibians to trainers, there’s an LSA for everyone.