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Solairus Aviation's purchase of Clay Lacy's management and charter business creates a 500+ aircraft managed fleet, reshaping business aviation.
TowerSpecial VFR lets you legally fly below normal VFR minimums in a surface area - here's when it's a smart tool and when it's a deadly trap.
PatternBeaumont, Kansas lets pilots land on grass, taxi down Main Street, and park at an 1879 hotel - here's how to fly in.
RampThe last airworthy Bristol Blenheim was rebuilt three times over nearly 40 years, surviving two crashes to fly again at Duxford.
TaildraggerThe FAA has proposed letting qualifying military trainees use their military flight physicals instead of a separate third-class medical for civilian training.
TowerHow NOAA's HRRR model simulates thunderstorms on a 3-km grid every hour, and how pilots should actually use it to time storms.
VectorRadio Hangar explores The Impossible Turn, the Turnback After an Engine Failure on Takeoff, and Why the Numbers on the Ground Decide Whether You Live Through It.
PatternThe Night Witches flew 23,000 night sorties in wood-and-canvas biplanes, gliding silently over German lines on the WWII Eastern Front.
TaildraggerFLYING Magazine spotlights a 1978 Bellanca 8KCAB Decathlon - here's what this rag-and-tube taildragger teaches pilots and what to inspect before buying.
TowerThe PAVE checklist helps pilots catch risk before takeoff - here's how to run it and build personal minimums that hold under pressure.
PatternThe positive three-way exchange of flight controls prevents the deadly two seconds when nobody is flying the airplane. Here's how to do it right.
PatternSierra Space's Dream Chaser is a lifting-body spaceplane that lands on a runway like an airplane, returning fragile cargo gently instead of splashing into the ocean.
VectorThe F4U Corsair's iconic gull wing wasn't styling - it was geometry solving a 13-foot propeller problem. Here's the full story.
Taildragger'Unable' is the one-word radio call that lets a pilot decline an unsafe or impossible ATC clearance and reclaim command of the aircraft.
PatternRadio Hangar explores The XB-70 Valkyrie, the Six-Engine Mach Three Bomber That Folded Its Wingtips in Flight and Now Sits Alone at Dayton After a Camera Killed Her Sister.
TaildraggerHow Douglas 'Wrong Way' Corrigan flew a patched-up Curtiss Robin from Brooklyn to Ireland in 1938 and called it a navigation error.
TaildraggerHow John Alcock and Arthur Brown made the first nonstop transatlantic flight in 1919, crash-landing a converted bomber in an Irish bog.
TaildraggerAOPA's first Aviation Career Expo runs November 13–14, 2025 in Phoenix, connecting job seekers with employers across the entire aviation industry.
TowerAOPA members will vote September 19, 2025 on the biggest governance overhaul since the group's 1939 founding. Here's what's at stake.
TowerArizona senators ask the FAA to fix its Phoenix flight-path redesign - here's what airspace changes mean for GA pilots everywhere.
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