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•   Classically quick
  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