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Game On!

Plane and Pilot

The school also offers spin endorsements, upset recovery, aerobatic training, and hourly instruction if youre just itching to check the GameBird off your airplane bucket list. She walked me through the foyer to the spotless, freshly painted hangar. The GameBird is right at home on the grass, pavement, or TacAeros clean hangar.

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Bargain Buys on AircraftForSale: 2011 Slepcev Storch

Plane and Pilot

The seller reports that it has always been hangared with no damage and has been well maintained and flown regularly. With an empty weight of only 761 pounds and a gross weight of 1213 pounds, the useful load is roughly that of a typical Cessna 140. The panel is small but functional.

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Approachable Excellence

Plane and Pilot

Airplanes like the Piper Cherokee probably dont get their due. Ask a stranger to think of a small GA airplane, and theyll probably conjure something like a Cub. Fearsome metal airplanes helped win a global conflict, yet pilots came home to variations on prewar designs of tube-and-fabric construction and modest performance.

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The Fateful Call

Photographic Logbook

Twenty years ago today, I bought an airplane. I'm in Oklahoma and I just bought an airplane." Compared to the tired, 100 horsepower, 2-seat Cessna I did my training in, this airplane was a veritable beast and it had a great paintjob, too. Also, weak batteries cannot start airplanes. Bill admonished out of embarrassment.

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Used Aircraft Guide: Piper Aerostar Offers Turbine-Like Performance

Flying Magazine

READ MORE: Top 5 Used Four-Seater Airplanes to Buy One upgrade they offered is called the Super 700 Aerostar, which takes 601P and 602P Aerostars and fits them with 350-HP Lycoming TIO-540-U2A engines mated with three-blade Hartzell props. The airplane gets a gross weight boost to 6,356 pounds ramp weight.

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Splish Splash

Plane and Pilot

Theres something about a little yellow tailwheel airplane that has always ignited my soul. After all, a Cub sitting on a hangar pad was what initially drew me to walk into the Ron Alexander Youth Aviation Program , an experience that changed the course of my life at just barely 16 years old. It can hold the extra gross weight.

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From the Archive: Different Worlds

Air Facts

Collins A MONTH or so ago we were sitting in a big comfortable chair thinking about airplanes. After that we thought about airplanes some more over a cup of Sanka. The airplane was enroute from Wichita to Kansas City to Newark. Just the air and the airplane. They are 400 miles per hour faster for one thing.

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