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Meet the Michigan aviator building a rewarding career while navigating unique career challenges and more.

FAA-certified upgrade, increasing gross weight by 550 pounds, is now available for PA-18 owners and restorers.

Plane trades power for economy and comes at a correspondingly lower price.

Can you hear it? Do you notice pilots all around you preparing for the annual pilgrimage to Oshkosh, Wisconsin for AirVenture 2023? Preflights happening. Engines firing up. Courses set on the EFIS. We’re off to the biggest aviation week of the year! One pre-show announcement came from one of our most stable and long-lived producers […]

We know it was windy! It’s still super cool!

Super Cubs are special to me, as my first flight in an airplane back in the last century was in a Super Cub on skis, though it would hardly qualify as “super” by today’s standards. The one-hour search-and-rescue mission was in a basic J-3 Cub in Alaska when I was 13, and the engine recently […]

This week’s Photo Of The Week will hopefully make you feel better, at least, briefly, about the weather.

Two old flying buddies add a new chapter to a great old book.

Plus, a pair of tragic crashes, new wings for Jessica Cox and a cross-country race for electric planes.

Piper PA-18 Super Cub Big Lake, Alaska/Injuries: 1 The pilot reported that, while performing touch-and-go landings, he applied carburetor heat during the second landing. During takeoff after the second landing, he turned the carburetor heat off and applied full power. Once airborne, the airplane began to lose power, and he manipulated the throttle and carburetor […]