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To pilots, airports are magical places. It’s where the dream of flight takes wing and becomes reality. Since 1903, the number of airports in the United States (and in the world) have grown steadily, though the exact number is hard to say. What constitutes an airport, anyways? Well, if you step outside the FAA’s airport […]

Plane & Pilot readers circled their tracks to look for their lost cell phone, and made an amazing discovery.

Learning to fly is a long process with a big price tag, but a great instructor can make all the difference.

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The crash of the tourist helicopter claimed the lives of seven people, including one who might have been a reluctant passenger.

The blast, which heavily damaged a Beechcraft development hangar, injured 11, one of whom remains hospitalized.

The decade from 2010 to 2019 for General Aviation was one of tremendous technological progress, from computer watches to autonomous flight control. Manufacturers also launched some amazing new planes, including a jet from Cirrus, the incredible globetrotting Gulfstream G650, a remarkable diesel twin, the DA-62, from Diamond, among others. At the same time we in […]

The story of civil aviation in the past decade has been one of almost limitless dreams, sometimes coming to life though sometimes, finding themselves face to face with very real limitations. Here, counting down to the number one story of the decade, are the top ten stories of the past decade.

The 17-year-old girl apparently knew enough to get the plane started’€¦from there things went downhill.

For personal aviation the biggest stories of the year had nothing to do with the 737 Max saga, well, though if you look more closely, a few of them did.