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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...

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...

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...

B Bar C Ranch: Middle Fork Outfitters’ Remote Getaway

Middle Fork Outfitters’ B Bar C Ranch: Year-round Remote Fly-in Ranch Are you looking to really get away from it all? Take your friends to a remote, off-the-grid ranch most people have never...

Piper PA-18 Super Cub

Piper PA-18 Super Cub: The Shortfield Takeoff and Landing Champion By R.K. Dick Williams with Crista Worthy Mention the words “bush plane” and the image that pops into most pilot’s minds is the...

The Piper Apache and Piper Aztec: Birds of a Feather

What is the Difference Between the Piper Apache and Piper Aztec? Is it a Piper Apache PA-23? Or a Piper Aztec PA-27? Or PA-23 Aztec? I guess technically all three designations are correct with the...