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The Mooney M20E is a good performer at a good price - On brand-new wings
An airliner's first day on the job - Water dog
Taking a Husky to the lake - Rally GA: Pay Up
User-fee proposals keep turning up - Flying wild in Alaska
A reality show showcases GA flying - Wx Watch: The problem with pireps
‘Trace’ and ‘light’ icing: No problem? - Above NY
Helicopter tours of Manhattan? Priceless - Going live
How AOPA’s video channel brings general aviation to life - The lady has a history
'FIFI' reminds us of an important era - Never Again
Just a few miles more - Rally GA: 'Why crawl when you can fly?'
Sean D. Tucker heaps Extra excitement on auction winner - This dog will hunt
Your 2012 sweepstakes aircraft is ready for adventure - GA Remembers 9/11
Adjusting to a changing world: AOPA continues remembering, rebuilding, and restoring - Mark II Cessna 206: The ultimate family truckster
The Rolls-royce of Cessna 206s - Flying skeletons and electric hummingbirds
A tale of floaters and foamies - Epic Flights: Greenland adventure
Flying the vast frozen Arctic - Epic Flights: 88 magical aerial miles
A timeless aircraft flies in an ancient land - Short work
College students seek to land aviation championship - Avionics: Aspen Synthetic Vision
Big world on a small screen: Aspen brings synthetic vision to Evolution PFD/MFD - “Methodical Risk Taker”
Chuck Aaron and the Red Bull Helicopter(s) - Avionics: The iPad-centric cockpit
Behold the power of the tablet - AOPA 2011 Crossover Classic Sweeps: The Ultimate Skylane
Built for fast or slow, high or low—and for you - Pilot Products: Heavy tugs, cool air
Redline Sidewinder - Dogfight: Say it right
Standardized terms or laughable language? - AOPA 2011 Crossover Classic Sweeps: Beauty that’s skin deep
New paint makes all the difference - Piper Mirage: Pressurization
Pressurization and cabin class set Mirage apart from the others - Pilots:
Mike Mangold - Will Medicare cover this?
Medical technology for engine inspection - Never Again: Post-maintenance surprise
I knew this was often how accident reports began - or ended... - AOPA State of the Association
Together We Can Rally GA - Prime time for the Jabiru
Rugged LSA is ready for its close up - AOPA 2011 Crossover Classic Sweeps: The inside job
Farewell, ripped and beaten seats—Hello, fresh leather and bubinga wood - Dogfight: Running lean of peak
"Go ROP, and have peace of mind" vs. "Asked and answered" - GA Serves America: Tennessee time machine
Taking care of business, one flight at a time - Pilots:
Wilma Melville - Island King: Hawaiian Airlines celebrates 80 years
Bellanca CH-300 Pacemaker - Pimp my Plane
The Vegas Viper - An airplane gone wild - Touching the future
Garmin unveils touch-screen Navigators - A half-century training legacy
Sporty's Pilot Shop marks its fiftieth anniversary - Never Again:
Daddy’s little girl - Technique: Unconventional Wisdom
The options available following an engine failure - Challenges: Fling-Winging It
The cool kids make helicopter flying look easy - Flying Yellowstone and ‘The Grand’
Meet the pilots who call this world their home - First Look: You too can be on YouTube
Cameras to help you make in-flight videos - Challenges: Stretch your skills by trying a new form of flight
Thunder on the water: The Twin Bee will float your boat - The Perfect Howard
Why one is more than two - Help is on the way
Study shines a light on flight training’s challenges - Challenges: Stretch your skills by trying a new form of flight
Rock ’n roll: Learning aerobatics - Postcards: Trek to northern Canada
Arctic Lodges: The lure of Arctic fishing - Compelling Kestrel
Alan Klapmeier’s back with a new company—and a new airplane - AOPA Aviation Summit: Celebrating our freedom to fly
Aviation rocks Long Beach - Never Again:
An illuminating experience - Fly away home
New Hampshire pilot wins the Fun to Fly Remos - Godsend or gadget?
Apple’s iPad offers many possibilities for pilots - Big fun in a small package
I reach out my hand, and touch—the wing tip! - One pumped-up powerplant
A firewall-forward beef-up par excellence - Aerocar: Keepers of the car
Why I never wrote about Ed Sweeney’s Aerocar - Never Again
Flying ice cube - A birthday to celebrate
Seventy-five years of the Douglas DC–3 - Epic Flights: Coastal Maine in Autumn
A lap around Acadia National Park in an open-cockpit biplane - GA Serves America: Above the spill
GA responds to the Gulf oil crisis - Found: AOPA’s sweepstakes Cessna 182
Landing a good one - Never Again
Ego in the cockpit - GA's supporters on Capitol Hill
Friends of general aviation who deserve your consideration in November - Pilots
Walter Fricke - Out of space
The last space shuttle pilots take the basics with them - The Air up there
Balloonists descend on Albuquerque for flying, fellowship - Never Again
Skiing into the darkness - Skylane seeking
Only a very special Cessna 182 will do for AOPA's 2011 sweepstakes - A way with winglets
More payload and winglets equal more lift and less drag - Something to Savor
An LSA that fills the bill - Pilot Products: Online flight planners
Feature-rich tools for the pocketbook conscious - Pride of WWII
Flying the iconic symbol of American air power - 2010 Fun to Fly Sweeps: Girl on the go
The Fun to Fly Remos GX makes friends everywhere - Never Again
Endangered in the Andes - Never Again
How I spent my 45th birthday - Landing Insights
Some thoughts for short final - Next step toward NextGen
What does the FAA’s ADS-B Out final rule mean to you? - Wonderful Wacos
Classics are still made in Michigan - with a new twist - Never Again
Turbo-torch - Phenom 300 debut
Airline-bred systems and more power make for an ultimate single-pilot bizjet - AOPA Road and Runway: The ultimate cross-country road trip
850 nautical miles in two small but mighty vehicles - Airshow Renaissance
The thrill pays the bill - GA in the halls of Congress
Pilots, nonpilots join caucuses to increase fellow lawmakers’ awareness - Never Again
Sudden thump, sickening vibration - Adventure by Remos
A little airplane in a beautiful, out-of-the-way place - Look, Ma, no lead
Will this new fuel measure up? - Exclusive interview: General aviation’s watchdog in Congress
Chairman Costello on the issues facing GA - A pioneer passes
John L. Baker’s enduring legacy - GA Serves America: Guarding the grid
High-voltage piloting - ‘A little bit different’
Five years in, a new look at sport pilot - Postcards: Friday Harbor, Any Day of the Week
Washington's enchanted island - Avionics: Garmin G3X
- GA Serves America: Chasing Ehren
Now you see him, now you don't - Fly Well: Diving to great heights
- Never Again: Just land
- Flying into Haiti
The best of general aviation in the worst of times - GA Serves America: Eyes in the sky
Rotor power serves citizens - Thrust buster: Sierra Super S–II
You can't say it enough: there's no substitute for power - Diamond DA42 do-over
Out with the Thielerts, in with the AE300s - Postcards: Welcome to Fairbanks, Alaska
Winter or summer, there's plenty to do - Jewel in the crown
The 2010 Sweepstakes does light sport proud - Pilot Products
Survival of the fittest - GA Serves America: Feeding the Delta
Ag pilots are essential to the farm economy - Fun at Mach 0.162
You'll be stoked, dude - Aviation's New Vision
Unifying GA and promoting flying are key initiatives during new AOPA president’s first year - The iceway is open
If you plow it, they will come - Sweepstakes: As good as it gets
Oh, the places we've been - Avionics: The Aera era begins
Touch-screen GPS completes fusion of airways and roadways - Hangar Talk
The story behind the story - Sweepstakes: Clear and compelling
All-electric standby unit banishes the last of the round dials - Turbine Pilot: Time machine
We Put a Piper Meridian to work - Turbine Pilot: D-JET Dawn
A first look at the first single-engine very light jet to hit the market - Sweepstakes: Getting there is half the fun
Crossing two Great Lakes, a sliver of Canada, and a safe arrival at OSH - The grand finale
Biplane fly-in ends on a high note - Sweepstakes: Night into day
Infrared camera illuminates the view - Dr COPTR
It's Thursday, and the doctor has flown in - Grass for gas
Flying a real, renewable fuel - Turbine Pilot: New magic
The Garmin G1000 brings new tricks to the Piper Meridian panel - Cowboy Cadillac
Airplanes at work on the prairie - Airbags in the SR22
Automotive technology enters the cockpit - Avionics
Bendix/King KFD 840, RCA 2600, and Garmin's Pilot My-Cast - Frugal Flyer: So wrong for so long
Lean-of-peak engine operations can help your engine, decrease your costs, and improve the environment - AOPA Pilot Online
Flying Friendly - GA and the Environment: Appalachian Spring
AOPA’s SR22 takes on an aerial mission - AirCam: Dream Machine
The go-anywhere, do-anything AirCam - Turbine Pilot: Thrill from Brazil
Phenom takes the stage - Light Sport Aircraft: Little Giant
A rugged LSA for your weekend (or anytime) fun - Over Africa
GA helps stop poachers in Kenya - Waypoints: From highway to airway
- Seven Zero
How time flies - One giant icon
Flying a piece of aviation history - Mountain Flying Adventure
A backcountry experience like no other - NASCAR drivers fly, too
You’ve got something in common with these drivers - Soaring
Airborne and alive, again - Turbine Pilot Cessna Caravan: Sky Truck
Remembering weight-and-balance rules - Those magnificent flying machines
A remarkable collection of flyable aircraft from the Great War - Hawker-Beechcraft G58 Baron
Noble Steed - Launch of an all new sweepstakes
The gift of flight - Low, slow, and comfortable
Aboard America’s newest Zeppelin - Avionics: It Flies and Drives
Take this low-cost GPS in the air and in your car. - Pilot to Pilot: A Pilot First
An introduction to Craig L. Fuller, only AOPA's fourth president in 70 years. - Get Your Glass Sweepstakes: This Glass Is For You
The work is finished, and the Archer is ready for its new owner-could it be you? - 'AOPA Pilot' 2008 General Aviation Photography Contest
The perfect canvas: Your top 15 revealed - In search of the magnetic North Pole: An amazing Arctic adventure
- Turbine Pilot: Pilatus' Apex
A stately heavy hauler gets new glass - Online Exclusive: Cessna 195 Businessliner: Flying First Class
Echoing a pilot's command of business aviation - The Key to Ownership: Realize the Dream
Become an aircraft owner--one way or another - Mooney Acclaim Type S: A Piston Rocket
Mooney's Acclaim Type S is the king of speed - Turbine Pilot: Eclipse 500: Typed and Tried
Test driving the Eclipse 500 and its training program - Going Ballistic
Airframe parachutes save lives - Medically Speaking: A Second Chance
Flying with a new heart - America's Airports: Another Day in Paradise
The busiest little seaplane base in Florida - Avionics First Look: Vertical Power
Your electronic workload-reduction device - Turbine Pilot: Catching the 605
A short hop in the newest Challenger - SR22 GTS: A New Perspective on Cirrus
Garmin takes a bigger chunk of the Cirrus panel - Taking On a Mission
Brigade Air inspires teens to consider humanitarian aviation careers - Pilot Briefing
- Light Sport: He's the Candy Bomber
Still dropping candy to kids at age 87--now from a Remos G-3 600 - This Man Is Having Too Much Fun!
Barry Schiff interviews Harrison Ford - Turbine Pilot: King Air C90GTI: More Power, More Panel
The 'old' C90 King Air gets a shot in the arm - America's Airports: An Air-Mailed Village
Without airplanes, this Alaskan settlement might disappear - Avionics: Garmin 1000 SVS: Seeing Eye to Eye
Synthetic vision system brings the world into focus - Dog Days in Alaska
Flying with the bush pilots of the Iditarod - Location, Location
The story behind AOPA headquarters relocations - The Lucky Ones
All kinds of winners, all kinds of airplanes in the AOPA sweepstakes - America's Airports: Tale of a Gem
Tahoe's 'Lake in the Sky' airport turns 50 - Catch-A-Cardinal Sweepstakes: Surprise of a Lifetime
Texas pilot wins AOPA's Catch-A-Cardinal - Endurance Test, Circa 1958
150,000 miles without landing in a Cessna 172 - AOPA's Get Your Glass Sweepstakes: You Say You Want a Revolution?
Bringing glass to the masses - America's Airports: In the Conch Republic
Key West International Airport (EYW), Key West, Florida - America's Airports: Birthplace of Aviation
- Technique: Am I a good pilot?
Let's see if you can say 'yes' - AOPA's Catch-A-Cardinal Sweepstakes
Perfect Timing - AOPA Expo 2007
Time in New England - 'AOPA Pilot' 2007 General Aviation Photography Contest
Cream of the Crop - On Display
L3 Communications Avionics Systems SmartDeck - Flying Seasons
Insidious Hazards From Dusk to Dawn - Two Dreaded Words
What a prop strike can do to your aircraft - FAA Funding Debate
Bill Me - AOPA's Catch-A-Cardinal Sweepstakes
Cross-Country Cruise - AOPA's Airport Support Network 10-Year Anniversary
America's Airports: Promote, Protect, Defend - Turbine Edition: Trans-Atlantic Adventure
France to Canada in two easy days. In a Gumby suit. - FAA Funding Debate
Airlines Attack - The Great Circle Air Safari
Flying Australia's sunburned Outback - FAA Funding Debate: Home Stretch
Pushing for H.R.2881 - Bragging Rights
5,000 landings — all different - AOPA's Catch-A-Cardinal Sweepstakes: Time in Type
The Cardinal's first cross-country to greet the flock - New Name, Same Great Beech Party
Staggerwing Museum's focus expands to all Beechcraft - Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Smell of the Sea - Charleston, South Carolina
Lowcountry slowdown: A respite — and a trip back in time - A Day in the Life of America's Airports
- Friday Harbor, Washington
Enchanted island - Grand Canyon, Arizona
Explore the South Rim - Clermont County, Batavia, Ohio
Pilot's playground - AOPA's Catch-A-Cardinal Sweepstakes: Flight Test
Getting ready for first flight - Hampton, New Hampshire
The way it should be - Anchorage, Alaska
Explorers' haven - Possum Kingdom, Texas
Boating through the kingdom - On Display
In Plain Sight - North American Aviation P-51D Mustang
Lone Ranger - Chino, California
Museums and paniolo fajitas - Leadville, Colorado
Land of the silver kings - Poplar Grove, Illinois
The welcome mat is out - AOPA's Catch-A-Cardinal Sweepstakes: Power Plan
Firewall forward for your Cardinal - Beyond the Border
UAVs are unmanned but not unpiloted - FAA Funding Debate: Hanging Tough
Why GA is sticking together through thick and thin - FAA Funding Debate: Congress Listens
AOPA weighs in at key committees - Turbine Pilot
Cessna Citation Mustang - Sure Thing - AOPA's Catch-A-Cardinal Sweepstakes: Mirror Finish
An incredible paint process for an amazing airplane - Build Me an Aircraft--Robinson Helicopter
The Highest Standards - Flying Seasons
Storm Savvy - FAA Funding Debate: A Bill's Blowback
Congress receives the FAA's and airlines' wish lists - Turbine Pilot
A New Horse in the Jet Race - Wx Watch: The Big Burn-Off
Inversion-busting rules of thumb - Flying Seasons
Emerging From Hibernation - Piper Saratoga II TC
Memory Maker - AOPA's Catch-A-Cardinal Sweepstakes: Panel Magic
The avionics you want - and use - Turbine Pilot
Breaking the Chain - AOPA's Catch-A-Cardinal Sweepstakes: A New Spark
Upgrades to your Cardinal's electrical system - Flying America's Blues Highway
A six-city aerial tour, from New Orleans to Chicago - Sky Arrow 600 Sport
Eyes in the Sky - Pilots
Jim Dickson - FAA Funding Debate: Euro-Fees Fears
A trip from England to Germany - AOPA's Catch-A-Cardinal Sweepstakes: Beauty From the Inside Out
Airframe refurbishment 101 - Postcards
Elvis Lives On—In Tupelo - Pilots
Roger Keeney - FAA Funding Debate: Point of Order
FAA funding and Civics 101 - AOPA's Airport Directory 2007-2008
Print Edition Production Stats - Oxygen-System Primer
What you need and what to buy - Pilots
Calvin Burgess - Keeping the Past Flying
At Lee Bottom Flying Field, 'too old' isn't in the vocabulary - User Fee Debate: Battle Brewing
Are user fees on the horizon? - AOPA's Catch-A-Cardinal Sweepstakes: A Family Project
Basic to beautiful - from the inside out - Pilots
Ruby Wine Sheldon - AOPA Expo 2006: The Palm Springs Expo Experience
- A Flying Car...Seriously
Why can't my airplane be more like a car — or vice versa? - AOPA Pilot Special Report: 50th Anniversary of the Cessna 172
- Kids, Cubs, and Oh-So-Sweet Sunsets
Winners of the AOPA Pilot 2006 General Aviation Photography Contest - Pilots
Livingston Taylor - Sky and Canvas
15 biplanes tour nine cities - Christmas Tree Transport
Santa gets a little help from his turbine-powered friends - AOPA's Win a Six in '06 Sweepstakes: A Six to Go
A one-of-a-kind classic's upgrade odyssey - 40 Top Technlologies: The Future You Fly Today
- Spin Masters
