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Triple Tree Aerodrome in South Carolina offers a 7,000-foot manicured grass runway and a legendary fall fly-in for GA pilots.
Catalina's Airport in the Sky sits 1,602 feet up on an island runway with a blind hump - here's what pilots need to know.
At Beaumont, Kansas, you land on grass, taxi down Main Street, and tie your airplane to a light pole outside a hotel dating to 1879.
Moose Creek (1U1) is a remote Forest Service grass airstrip in Idaho's Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness - here's its history and how to fly it safely.
Sedona Airport sits atop a mesa in Arizona's red rocks - a 5,132-ft crowned runway pilots call the USS Sedona. Here's how to fly it safely.
The FBO crew car is aviation's greatest tradition - a free courtesy car offered on trust, with unwritten rules every pilot should know.
How pilots rebuilt Idaho's Big Creek Lodge (U60) board by board after a 2008 fire, flying every piece into the wilderness.
Fly into Gaston's White River Resort (3M0), a grass strip in the Arkansas Ozarks where you tie down under the trees and eat river trout.
Triple Tree Aerodrome in Woodruff, SC offers 7,000 feet of the world's finest grass runway and a legendary fall fly-in.
Radio Hangar explores Catalina's Airport in the Sky, Alpha Victor X-Ray, the Mountaintop Runway With a Hump in the Middle and a Bison Burger Waiting at the Top.
Mile Hi (0U1) is a one-way, 14% uphill backcountry strip in Idaho where pilots commit on final and use gravity to land and take off.
How aircraft marshallers park thousands of planes daily using standardized silent hand signals recognized worldwide.
Johnson Creek (3U2) is Idaho's crown-jewel backcountry strip - a 3,500-ft turf runway in a canyon with hot showers and camping.
Sedona Airport (SEZ) sits atop a 4,830-foot mesa in Arizona's red rock country - here's why pilots call it the USS Sedona and how to fly it safely.
The FBO crew car is aviation's free loaner ride, run entirely on trust - here's how it works and the unwritten rules for borrowing it.
Radio Hangar explores Antique Airfield, India Alpha Two Seven, Blakesburg, Iowa, and the Labor Day Fly-In Where the Antique Airplane Association Keeps Em Flying on a Grass Strip in the Middle of a Cornfield.
How pilots rebuilt Idaho's Big Creek Lodge board by board after a 2008 fire, flying every piece into a wilderness strip with no road.
The Cavanaugh Flight Museum at Addison, Texas keeps its warbirds airworthy - a living museum where fighters still fly.
Catalina's Airport in the Sky (KAVX) sits 1,600 ft atop Santa Catalina Island, with a famous humped runway, a wild bison herd, and real pilot challenges.
Gaston's White River Resort (3M0) is a grass airstrip on Arkansas's White River where pilots land, tie up to a tree, and walk to trout dinner.