Plane & Pilot News | Aviation News & Industry Updates

What happens if you turn off your ADS-B?

Turn Off Your ADS-B, Go To Jail?

Maybe not, but you could be in deep with the Feds if you go stealth. Here’s what else might happen too.

Love Means Hearing Protection! by Ryan Neil

Plane & Pilot Photo Of The Week: Love Means Hearing Protection!

This week’s photo is sure to hit your heartstrings.

"Fiery Sunrise Over Texas," by Jon Hicks, the grand prize winner of the 2019 Your Flying World Contest

Top 25 Plane Photos From Plane & Pilot’s Your Flying World Contest

The number and quality of the submissions to our inaugural photo contest blew us away. We think you’ll see why.

Zoomed in depiction of ADS-B returns of last 1 minute of flight.

Going Direct: The One Piece Of Evidence That Sticks Out From Kobe Bryant Crash Report

The NSTB preliminary report is out, and investigators seem to have missed the significance of one big clue.

Camera image of the Kobe Bryant crash site.

Going Direct: NTSB Preliminary Report On Kobe Bryant Crash. Why The Big Surprise Is No Surprise At All To Pilots

For many pilots, the mountains of data confirmed an early belief.

Crossword Key from Plane & Pilot's March 2020 Issue

March 2020 Crossword Key

Check your answers for the puzzle found in our March 2020 issue

World’s Coolest Cessna 175 Skylark. It Has Slats!

A project turns a 1958 Cessna nosegear plane into an incredible backcountry machine.

Going Direct: Electric Planes Equals User Fees

The uncomfortable fact of life as aviation flips the switch to a new future.

Accident Brief: Cirrus SR22 Fuselage Damaged During Crash In Tulsa, Oklahoma

One person was injured in this plane accident in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

An early Beechcraft V-35 Bonanza similar to the plane that crashed the "Day the Music Died."

Mysteries Of Flight: The Day The Music Died

What really happened the ’Day The Music Died,’ when rock n’ roll artists Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and ’The Big Bopper,’ J.P. Richardson Jr., perished in a plane crash in 1959?