Plane and Pilot Mag

By Isabel Goyer With Oshkosh looming—it starts on Monday, July 25—the week in news has been slow, GA-wise, as plane makers and movers and shakers usually hold on to their announcements until the festivities get underway. There was one big exception to …

By Isabel Goyer The world’s most successful maker of kitplanes, Van’s Aircraft, has announced its latest model, the RV-15. And, no, it’s not flying inverted. It’s a high-wing model. Van’s is calling it an engineering prototype, but it looks plenty poli…

By Sam Winer The last thing the nine skydivers and two pilots expected on their skydiving mission from some time ago would be surviving a midair collision and jumping out of their respective aircraft to save their lives. That’s exactly what happened in…

By Plane & Pilot This week’s Plane & Pilot Photo of the Week is from pilot/photographer Marc Davis, who captured this remarkable image of his Piper PA-12 Super Cruiser (look for our cover story on the type in the September issue of Plane & Pilot) near …

By Isabel Goyer, J. Beckett As general aviation gears up for what promises to be an epic Oshkosh (July 25-31), the first full week in July was a busy one for aviation. There was big news from the beltway, including the announcement of a new, though pre…

By Sam Winer President Joe Biden has nominated Phil Washington, the current head of Denver International Airport (DIA), to the position of Administrator for the Federal Aviation Administration. This nomination was not a total surprise as news leaked se…

By Isabel Goyer In a final report that is unusual in many respects, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) concluded that the crash that killed well-known and highly experienced pilot Dale Snodgrass in 2021 was caused by the pilot’s failure to…

By Mark David Francisco For years, the Cessna 206 has been called the flying SUV, and for good reasons. It’s rugged, can take a good load, and does, indeed, serve as a utility vehicle, carrying good loads of both people and cargo. The Cessna 206 has pr…

By Plane & Pilot Joe Costanza has been wanting to get this video for some time, and recently when the conditions were perfect on the little grass strip his Cubbie calls home, well, you’ll see for yourself. Aviation photography great Paul Bowen made vor…

By Plane & Pilot This week’s Plane & Pilot Photo of the Week is from Casey Long, who captured this remarkable image of his gorgeous 1979 Cessna 185f Skywagon on the glassy surface of Shirley Lake, Alaska, doing its best impression here of a reflecting …