General Aviation News

19 hours ago | generalaviationnews.com | Janice Wood

There’s an old saying “it takes a village” and that certainly is true at Cameron Park Airport (O61) in California. Volunteers with the non-profit Cameron Park Airport Foundation raised close to $70,000 over the past 18 months to pay for an upgrade to the airport’s Automated Weather Observing System.

2 days ago | generalaviationnews.com | Jamie Beckett

Throughout the nation there has been a long tradition of evangelicals raising tents to welcome the public. Their intent is to comfort the believers while providing an opportunity to encourage newcomers to the flock. It’s been a largely successful program, unregulated and largely independent as it is. Aviation shares a common thread with these religious events. We hold air shows and fly-ins and pilot association gatherings. We gather the faithful to commune with our common interests.

1 week ago | generalaviationnews.com | Joni M Fisher

Every air show has a few aircraft that everyone seems to be talking about and the 2025 SUN ’n FUN Aerospace Expo was no exception. Like the embodiment of the aircraft flown in the 1960s cartoon The Jetsons, the Pivotal Helix, a single-seat, bubble-top Part 103 aircraft, captured the attention of the crowds at SUN ’n FUN. All during the week-long expo, crowds gathered at the company’s exhibit, as well as at Paradise City to see the working model flying at the beginning of the STOL demonstrations.

2 weeks ago | generalaviationnews.com | Ben Sclair

Barry Munsterteiger began flight training in 2021 in a Cessna 172M that included a CheckMate checklist. “One day during my training I arrived to fly and the checklist that I had normally been using was missing from the airplane,” Barry said. “I chose not to fly that day as I felt it was a critical item at my stage of training. That evening I bought my own CheckMate Cessna 172M checklist via their Amazon storefront.”Soon enough Barry bought a Cessna 182P and a CheckMate checklist for that aircraft.

2 weeks ago | generalaviationnews.com | Jamie Beckett

I’m enamored of travel by general aviation aircraft. Some of the happiest, most satisfying moments of my life have been spent at 2,000 feet above the ground, watching the world roll by beneath me. It’s remarkably easy to become deluded into thinking we live on a desperately overpopulated planet covered in concrete, steel, and glass. This belief can be reinforced by what we see and hear from our position on the ground amidst the clutter of modern life.