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Vero Beach, Florida,-based Skyborne Airline Academy is partnering with Delta Airlines to provide training through the airline’s Propel Pilot Career Path Program (PPCP). To qualify for the program, applicants need to be a three-year Delta employee, possess at least a Private Pilot certificate, go through an interview process and more. But those who are accepted […]

Airplane just crashed on US-64 just outside Creswell. Hoping everyone is ok. pic.twitter.com/P9cvogi24L — Kate Charland (@KateCharland) August 1, 2022 A Piper PA-28-RT201 landed gear-up on a remote stretch of North Carolina Highway and came to rest crosswise in the travel lanes. No one, thank goodness, was injured in the forced landing, and the Arrow […]

It’s seldom that a politician flying somewhere makes headlines, but Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D, CA) flying to Taiwan was the exception. A polarizing trip, Pelosi flew to Asia despite pleas from President Biden not to, and her trip was panned by many allies and lauded at by nearly as many opponents, as […]

At Oshkosh AirVenture, Yakima, Washington-based backcountry aircraft manufacturer CubCrafters announced that it would go public, making a stock offering though a program designed for smaller companies. Plane & Pilot spoke with CubCrafters’ Brad Damm at AirVenture, and he told us that the offering’s early days were the hottest such opening its management company had ever […]

EAA reported that AirVenture 2022 set records for attendance at this year’s EAA Oshkosh AirVenture Fly-In from July 25-31. There were, as usual, more than 10,000 airplanes that made it to one of the airports that many pilots fly into for the Oshkosh week, and there were a lot of warbirds (369), classics and show planes, […]