Cruising through smooth air toward your destination while enjoying a gentle tailwind, you revel in the speed, efficiency, and convenience of general aviation travel. After parking on the ramp, though, you need transportation, and at small, remote, or unattended airports finding it might be difficult.
What began as a small airport open house in the early 2000s has developed into one of the most vibrant aviation events in the western United States. This year marked the third time that AOPA has partnered with the city of Buckeye, Arizona, to support the city’s Air Fair with an exhibit hall, static display, and educational and industry seminars, and it was the best one yet.
Over the past year, we’ve brought a bare-bones, bare-aluminum 1958 Cessna 182 into the modern age with a mid-century character resto-mod. And now, the AOPA Sweepstakes restoration is nearing its final stages.
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The Pulitzer Electric Aircraft Race is scheduled for October 10 through 13 at Springfield-Beckley Municipal Airport in Springfield, Ohio, marking 100 years since the last race in the original 1920s series was run.
The thirty-first Aero Friedrichshafen closed with record numbers this year. Over the course of four days, it hosted 32,100 visitors from more than 80 nations, 760 exhibitors from 38 nations, and a total of 328 aircraft ranging from drones and gliders to business jets.
If flying to Oshkosh, Wisconsin, for EAA AirVenture sounds a little too simple, perhaps you would like to race 400 nautical miles cross-country to get there.
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