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Cessna 185 Skywagon: Rugged, Powerful, and Trusted

The Cessna 185 Skywagon Has Proven Itself for Over 50 Years By: Crista Worthy with Steve Durtschi We’re not sure any other airplane quite matches the Cessna 185 Skywagon’s ability to lift its own...

Saving the Last Stinson A Trimotor from a Raging Inferno

Could We Save the Only Remaining Stinson A Trimotor Aircraft? In the summer of 1968, three companions and myself abruptly left our jobs in Glacier National Park in Montana to “seek fame and...

Learning to Fly With the Slovenly Pig

I Would Be Learning to Fly in This Old Bird? Years before I was married, I fell in love with another. My first flight instructor, Garry, introduced me to this lover on my very first flying lesson. She...

Cessna 180 Skywagon

Cessna 180 Skywagon: The Pickup Truck of the Air By Crista Worthy with Jim Davies If you are a fan of the larger Cessna taildraggers—the 180 and 185—you know it gets harder to find a good one each...

American Champion Decathlon

The American Champion Decathlon: the Sports Car of Singles By Crista Worthy with Rich Stowell American Champion Aircraft (ACA) currently produces FAA-certified light aerobatic and utility aircraft for...

El Nino is the Antichrist

Interpreting the Cardinal Rule of Go/No Go Decision On December 1st, I dropped off my 182 for its annual inspection. I lovingly rubbed the propeller and said my goodbyes to my airplane, “I’ll be back...

Pilatus PC-6 Porter

The Pilatus PC-6 Porter: Designed to Do It All If you watch movies or TV at all, you’ve probably seen “the Porter” in action, taking off and landing on remote dirt airstrips in far corners of the...

Beechcraft King Air: Over 60 Million Flight Hours and Counting

The Beechcraft King Air Still Reigns Supreme After 50 Years “Sorry, I know it’s two-thirty in the morning, but we have an air ambulance flight request from Flying Cloud to Walhalla Airport in North...

Cessna 206 Stationair

Flexibility: a Hallmark of the Cessna 206 Stationair By Larry Taylor with Crista Worthy Remember the station wagon? Much prized by growing families, station wagons filled American roads in the 1960s...