Antique/Classic/Contemporary Scrapbook #2
1949 Cessna 195 All of these aircraft pictured below were manufactured between 1943 and 1970. World history during this time frame begins in the middle of World War II, through to the year man...
Category: General Aviation
Antique/Classic/Contemporary Scrapbook #1
1943 Beech D17S Staggerwing All of these aircraft were manufactured between 1928 and 1943. World history during this time frame included the Great Depression and the beginning of World War II. What’s interesting to...
Snowbirds PAO Captain Jennifer Casey Perishes in Operation Inspiration Accident
Snowbirds CT-114 cockpit. On Sunday morning May 17, 2020, shortly before noontime in Kamloops, British Columbia, a pair of RCAF CT-114 Tutors, part of the Snowbirds team, departed the airport carrying the advance coordination...
A Real Community Airshow at Tyabb Airfield, Victoria, Australia
On Sunday 8 March, the Peninsula Aero Club at Tyabb Airfield, in Association with Paul Bennet Airshows and Sponsor IOR Aviation, ran their latest airshow with benefits to the community including Funflight, for children...
The Millennial Farnborough International Air Shows
ATR-42-500 soon to be delivered to Cuban airline Aerogaviota, at the 2002 Farnborough trade show. Here are a number of aircraft photos featuring the aircraft from the 2000 and 2002 Farnborough International Air...
Simsbury Connecticut’s Airport Open House Was Filled to Capacity!
Located about a fifteen minute car ride west of the Bradley International Airport in Connecticut, Simsbury Airport sits nestled in between a series of hills and short mountains. Located beside a country road which...
Daher TBM-930 Record Setting Flight Reviewed at EAA AirVenture
Dieter and Phil during their EAA AirVenture presentation about their record-breaking flight. On March 9, 2019, two aviators rewrote a world speed record for a trip across the Atlantic Ocean. Dierk Reuter and Phil...
Prototype Explorer Displayed at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2019
A visiting airplane from Europe was tucked into a corner of the display area at the EAA’s 2019 AirVenture. It wasn’t surrounded by a splashy pavilion nor potted plants and chairs and tables, but...
Oakland County International Airport’s 2019 Open House
While they lack the epic lineup of a show like Oshkosh, or the military presence of your local airbase’s airshow, grassroots aviation events at one’s local general aviation airport are often a key bridge...
The World’s Busiest Airport For a Week… Oshkosh Tower
For one week during the year, the busiest air traffic control tower (ATCT) in the world takes the stage front and center, at the world’s largest gathering of aircraft for a single event...
Owls Head Transportation Museum’s 2019 Wings and Wheels Celebration
Late summer in Mid-Coast Maine normally has pleasant weather and warm sunlight. When there’s high pressure in the area and a sea breeze kicks up, the temperature is wonderful and the air is crisp...
EAA Oshkosh’s Golden Anniversary Celebration – 50 Notes From the 50th Celebration
The year 2019 marked half a century of the Experimental Aircraft Association’s annual Convention, and later AirVenture events at Oshkosh’s Whitman Regional Airport. There were earlier gatherings at different sites, but the Oshkosh airport...
