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Wings For A Wheelchair: Paradise P1
It’s strong, friendly, roomy and rigged for hands-only flight!In 1999, an up-and-coming drummer man named Dylan Redd had a terrible car accident that broke his back. Several major surgeries and two...
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iCub Love
Classic, frisky, friendly, this Cub clone is so 21st Century When I think of my recent flights in Sportair USA’s Bush iCub, they’re soaked in rich, golden yellow—Cub Yellow to be precise. Inside and...
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Cessna Caravan 675 Amphibian: By Land and By Sea
From the hard deck or a Canadian lake, Ed Santangelo’s Caravan amphib gets the job done Pop quiz: What do Harrison Ford, an Arabian prince, Jimmy Buffett, one of the founders of Microsoft and Ed...
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Badlands Buster
Pictures from an exhibition of LSA STOL like you’ve never seen before I'm about to commit aviation at Paradise City, the light-sport/ultralight demo area of Sun 'n Fun's annual Fly-In & Expo. It's...
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A Really New Skylane
A Garmin glass panel brings a fresh view for CessnaCessna naysayers would complain that the company’s line of high-wing singles has changed little since its inception, save a continuing, but sometimes...
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Beech Travel Air
How an accidental friendship led to an Oshkosh championThe grass around the 1958 Beech Travel Air was beaten down, trampled by thousands of feet, wearing a path around the wings and tail of N100BH....
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The NEW Cirrus SRV
The people who put certified composites on the map now offer an entry-level airplane with an all-glass panelDownscaling an existing model isn’t a new trick. Piper has done it a number of times with the...
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An Unusual Seneca II
Piper’s trusty twin was just a starting point for this revitalized PA-34 modificationKim Bass is an unusual pilot with an unusual airplane. Bass is a Hollywood screenwriter who manages to survive in...
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The 2004 Skylane Goes Glass
Cessna Turned a Lot of Heads When it took its New Baby on the RoadIn October of last year, Cessna rolled out the 2004 Skylane for dealers to see. The newest 182 featured new paint on the outside, but...
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Going Recreational In A Pilatus
An executive turbine with a fun personality sets out to fulfill a mission in the Grand CanyonPilots dream about having more than one airplane. They’d like one that’s comfortable and fast for serious...
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Getting Better All The Time
With an increase in useful load and some refinements to the avionics, Piper’s turbine Meridian continues to evolveWhen New Piper first took the wraps off its Meridian, they set some rather lofty...
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Kissimmee Cardinal
Retired, but not ready to slow down—just like its ownerHow often has your significant other told you, no, ordered you to get out of the house and go flying? After seeing her husband mow the lawn in...
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The New Super Decathlon
American Champion 8KCAB offers some of the best aerobatic talent in the two-seat, sportplane classRich, I know you can’t see the ball from the back seat, but if you could, you’d be rolling with...
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Piper Pathfinder
The chief of the four-seat Cherokees still holds its own as a heavy haulerCherokees have always had a deserved reputation as the most docile singles in the sky. Flown to the bottom of their speed...
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Diamond Goes Glass
First to market with the Garmin G1000, the new DA40 Star is out of the gateNo one manufacturer takes the industry by storm these days. Beech did it with the Bonanza in the ’40s and ’50s, Cessna rocked...
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A Lark That Won’t Quit
An addiction to flying leads a pilot to a Cessna 175Greg Carter—standing by his pristine Cessna 175 Lark, parked amid the 2,000 show planes at the 2003 AirVenture in Oshkosh, Wis.—tries to tell me why...
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Tradewind Turbine Bonanza
Adding more power to a Beech A36 translates to more speed and funHot-rodding is fundamental to the American soul, and it isn’t merely confined to car buffs. Pilots, too, have a need to go faster,...
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Congratulations, Columbia 400
Faster than a speeding bullet, able to leap tall mountains in a single bound, look, up in the flight levels, it’s the 230-plus-knot certified Lancair single!Any aircraft manufacturer who is serious...
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An Enthusiastic Cherokee
Maybe it isn’t the fastest 140 in the world…but then again it might beThe very nature of Cherokee 140s wouldn’t seem to lend itself to speed. After all, the airplane made its reputation based on a...
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Liberty XL2
This two-seater is certified and ready to roll! As owner of one or another four-place airplane for the last 40 years, I can count on my fingers and toes the number of times I’ve used all four seats for...
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