Cessna 172 News

When reaching out to Alberta oil sands companies before a trip to Canada last month, I thought all of them mined oil the same way - they don't. The open mining most people think of when they picture the oil sands isA just one way of extracting crude A from the ground, but it is without a doubt the most dramatic.

Cessna Aircraft has launched an aircraft safety education initiative for owners and operators of 172 and 182 single-engine airplanes.

MLive.com Ezra Eby Elementary School third grade teacher Brandon Morrow, left, lands his Cessna airplane at Napoleon airport Saturday afternoon after giving his student Alejandro Jimenez, 9, and Jimenez's sister Jennifer, 12, a plane ride Saturday afternoon.

"Flat Spin," the title of David Freed's debut thriller, is the name of a complex and risky flight maneuver that only the most accomplished pilots should attempt, so it's no surprise that the hero of the story, Cordell Logan, is a first-rate aviator.

Military aircraft have intercepted two small planes in restricted airspace around Camp David, where world leaders are gathering for an economic summit.

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Air Force fighter jets will be on alert this weekend enforcing a Temporary Flight Restriction zone during a Group of Eight Summit meeting at Camp David, Md.

Many viewers called in Friday night asking about a fighter jet that was seen in the skies over York and Adams counties.

When reaching out to Alberta oil sands companies before a trip to Canada last month I thought all of them mined oil the same way - they don't. The open mining most people think of when they picture the oil sands is just one way of extracting crude from the ground, but it is without a doubt the most dramatic.

Member Alert: The FAA has issued notams restricting large areas of airspace near Washington, D.C., and Chicago from May 18 through 21.

Elkins Pilots Club members Wendell Cramer and K. G. Schmertzler along with original club CFI Perry Dillon with the newly unveiled monument celebrating the organization's fiftieth anniversary.

David Freed mixes a hard-boiled attitude with flashes of wry humor in Flat Spin, his debut thriller.

InsideNioVA Managing Editor Steve Pendlebury flies with Team Oracle's Brian Norris to watch aerobatic pilot Sean Tucker practice for the Manassas air show on May 12.

The worldwide popular Cessna Aircraft Company company announcedA a program to market aerial law enforcement platforms that are more affordable, effective and simpler to implement.

The cost of building and developing new aircraft must be slashed if general aviation is to attract new pilots, sustain the existing population of owners and flyers and drive up safety, said the General Aviation Manufacturers Association at AERO 2012 in Friedrichshafen, Germany.

Pilots pursuing advanced training and ratings regularly use full-motion flight simulators; some gain type certificates in sims having never flown the actual aircraft.

The southern half of the Cascades Lakes Highway, from the Deschutes Bridge to Hwy 58 has been cleared of snow and open.

Bert Gillis loved to fly but never earned his pilot's licence. For most of his life he farmed north of Wynyard, Sask.

Youngsville Brownie Troop 30940 toured the Brokenstraw Airport recently. They took some basic ground school regarding the principles of flight and learned about airport operations, then got to sit in a Cessna 172 and try the controls.

A 67-year-old pilot, Jeffrey S. Gilbert, died in the crash of his 1973 Cessna 177B Cardinal light plane at Cherry Ridge Airport located in Wayne County, Pennsylvania, 3 miles south of Honesdale, while performing touch-and-go landings on Saturday, May 5, 2012 at 12:10 p.m. EDT, as reported on that date by the Aviation Safety Network , The Scranton ... (more)