Gary's Flight Journal

JANUARY 26, 2025

I did an abbreviated video at the hangar yesterday showing some of my preflight, off camera I did an extensive check of the plane, she is good to go. Once reaching 153 degrees I was ready to taxi to runway one-four. We each saddled up and taxied for one six, Charles was first then I pointed down the runway for home.

Runway

Vintage Aviation News

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

The initial phase of the project includes the construction of a 56,000-square-foot hangar on airport property located south of the Santa Maria Radisson Hotel. An architectural drawing showing the basic size of the new hangar which Planes of Fame will begin building (hopefully this year) at Santa Maria Airport.

Hangar

Plane and Pilot

MAY 26, 2025

We emphasize attention to detail, not trusting our memory when it comes to taxi clearances, verifying runways prior to crossing or holding short, and ensuring that both pilots are heads-up for taxi, or that they vocalize any time a pilot goes heads-down. Halfway to the runway, the windsock hangs a U-turn. Set the Brake Plans change.

Runway

Flying Magazine

JUNE 3, 2025

On Tuesday, though, the airport welcomed an aircraft unlike any that has ever graced its runways. Watching Alia from the runway were representatives from the New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC), Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, and state officials, including Senator John Liu (D-N.Y.). [The

Air Traffic Control

AV Web

MARCH 16, 2025

It turns out the single runway at the Bern Airport (14/32) is only 5,676 at 1,673 feet ASL and a fully loaded Global 7500 needs about 5,700 feet at sea level. Also, the government hangars at Bern are too small for the plane, which is 111 feet long.

Runway

Plane and Pilot

DECEMBER 30, 2024

The familiar yellow Taylorcraft is parked by a galvanized corrugated steel roof shed-style hangar. With the airplane up on blocks and tied down in the hangar, I sent Andrew a photo. The ramp is empty, so I ask if hed like to taxi us to the departure end of the runway. The main road between the houses is the old runway.

Airplanes

Vintage Aviation News

JANUARY 18, 2025

Image via Wikipedia According to director Jean de Meuron, the production team meticulously studied the appearance of Edwards Air Force Base in the 1960s, including its hangars, runways, and military facilities. though it is currently undergoing conservation work at the Mary Baker Engen Restoration Hangar at the Steven F.

Pilot

Vintage Aviation News

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

The solution resulted in the Lynch STOL 26 modification, which drastically improved the already versatile Invader’s short takeoff and landing (STOL) capabilities, a crucial feature for short runways in the high elevations of Montana and Idaho. View of the Museum of Mountain Flying’s hangar in Missoula (Museum of Mountain Flying)

Airplanes

Flying Magazine

JUNE 5, 2025

Located in Berryville, Arkansas, the airport is roughly a 19-minute drive from Eureka Springs downtown business district, and it boasts a single asphalt runway. Airport At an elevation of 1,206 feet agl, Carroll County Airports 3,554-feet-long-by-75-feet-wide runway sticks out amongst the rural area that immediately surrounds it.

Runway

Vintage Aviation News

JANUARY 30, 2025

“When I heard we were in the first wave of six planes going down the runway at 200 feet, I elected to sit on mine,” he said. After the 8 1/2 hour, 1,182-mile flight from Midway, Connolly led the first six planes down the runway at Wake in a stepped-up V-formation. 5 and Guroaitei No. But lets not forget its big advantage!

Horizontal Stabilizer

AV Web

MAY 13, 2025

KLMO, elevation 5,055 feet, has a single, 4,799-foot runway (11/29). It currently has 124 hangars on site and is home base to some 340 aircraft. According to the statement, We do not have information leading us to believe there is an active threat to the aviation community utilizing the Vance Brand Longmont Municipal Airport.

Runway

Gary's Flight Journal

JUNE 5, 2025

Winds favored runway two-zero so I taxied out for departure. After picking up the weather in Cape May I joined the left down wind for runway two-eight to flow with traffic even though winds favored one-nine. I made a nice landing on runway two-zero and taxied for the hangar. Ok, back to the airplane stuff.

Runway

AV Web

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

Things like clearing turns on the ground and in the air are basic safety maneuvers but having to learn the boundaries of the airspace and how much a light sport can weigh may use up brain cells and attention that might be best used keeping the airplane on the runway’s centerline. My hangar guest was a youngster—at least compared to me.

Airplanes

Flying Magazine

JULY 30, 2025

Building homes with hangar facilities, community runways, and related aviation amenities takes a skilled labor force. Even the most backwater runways create steady employment for various professionals, and that’s not as volatile or contingent on other local conditions. And that brings its own inherent benefits to a community.

General Aviation

AV Web

MARCH 2, 2025

So, I’ve asked DOT what, exactly, Duffy meant when he threw his thumb over his shoulder in front of the cameras in an Oklahoma City hangar last week. The answer, if I get one, will give us a clue about how all this will go down for the next few years. I’ll let you know. The post One Strike And You’re Out?

Air Traffic Control

Gary's Flight Journal

OCTOBER 30, 2024

When I arrived at the hangar It was pretty comfortable inside so I didn't bother to preheat. Winds were calm so I decided on runway three-two for departure. According to the AWOS the winds were calm at Cape May so I set up for runway one and continued inbound. I made a nice landing and taxied for the hangar. Simmons trip.

Runway

Flying Magazine

JUNE 2, 2025

The privately-owned, private-use facility is the fifth busiest airport in the state and boasts a well-maintained 3,500-foot-long-by-100-foot-wide turf runway that sees a steady level of traffic from a mix of aircraft. The 15-acre property is host to 25 hangars and a same number of homes.

Runway

Vintage Aviation News

MAY 29, 2025

At the controls was Pilot Officer Goro Kataoka, who then climbed to 1,000 feet, rolled back, and dove towards the runway at Vunakanau for a low pass as a final goodbye to the ground personnel. Nakajima B5N2 “Kate” sits on display in Hangar 37. 16 Squadron, RNZAF, led by Lt.

Hangar

Air Facts

APRIL 28, 2025

We made a nice two ship formation landing on runway 8L and were directed to taxi to Deltas (TOC) ramp which is located mid-field. Still, crossing the adjacent parallel runway 8R, with a huge Airbus holding for us made me feel a tad uncomfortable, now I know how a bug must feel when it sees a windshield coming at him!

Clearance

Plane and Pilot

MARCH 27, 2025

Their parents, Leigh and Kamilla Hubner, who are natives of Australia, are some of my closest friends, and they just so happen to own a home with a runway in their backyard at Mallards Landing Airport (GA04) in Locust Grove, Georgia. The hangar is going to be very full, but were not moving.

Airplanes

Chess In the Air

DECEMBER 6, 2024

There are no hangars for gliders in Boulder and tie down space is limited. The steerable tailwheel turns out to be a even more essential than I had imagined: it allows me to get into the cockpit at my parking position and conduct all pre-flight checks before taxiing onto the runway for immediate takeoff.

Density Altitude

Vintage Aviation News

JANUARY 13, 2025

Ronald Herman, benefactor, and others break ground for a restoration hangar. Note the TBF in the background, awaiting its place in that hangar. The runway was asphalt paved in 1936. Photo via DeLand NAS Museum Archives There are probably dozens of small aviation museums that are totally volunteer operated.

Jet

Flying Magazine

JULY 7, 2025

Capital investments were focused on improving the runway and other existing aviation infrastructure elements. We started out by doing a lot of little stuff, such as running water and electricity to a few of the hangars that didn’t originally have it. But there was a fair amount of work to the runway that we did.

Runway

Vintage Aviation News

JULY 23, 2025

This strategically located site—well-connected by road and public transport and sharing a runway with one of Latin America’s busiest general aviation airports—has long been considered ideal for a major aviation museum. Once the F-5Ms are withdrawn, the facilities at PAMA-SP will become available for new uses.

General Aviation

Inspire

JULY 24, 2025

According to the FAA, an air boss is “the individual who has the primary responsibility for airshow operations on the active taxiways, runways and […] The post The Maestro first appeared on Hangar Flying. That would be the air boss.

Runway

AV Web

MAY 11, 2025

Our group of geriatric gear-uppers gathered in my friend Kyle’s hangar, not because it held any special safety significance but because his place was outfitted with air-conditioning, comfy furniture, and a decent bar. Tim, my next-door hangar neighbor with the same avionics setup, said he would go up with me the next afternoon.

Air Traffic Control

Vintage Aviation News

JANUARY 12, 2025

Over San Mateo I sailed and six minutes later NR-965-Y and I sat down on the runway of Oakland Airport, approximately 18 hours from Honolulu.” It was as NC965Y, which was adorned with the name Record Breaker that the aircraft was destroyed in a hangar fire in Memphis, Tennessee on August 20, 1943.

Airplanes

Aviation Bussiness News

JUNE 30, 2025

The company employs more than 400 specialists and operates two hangars with a total of eight bays, serving both narrowbody and widebody aircraft. Positioned near the Polish and Slovak borders, the airport is a key hub for both leisure and cargo traffic and features the country’s longest runway.

Cargo

Plane and Pilot

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Kentland has a 4,000-foot runway, east/west, with a crosswind straight out of the north. Nobody answered on unicom, and the facilities were at the west end of the airport, so I decided on left traffic for Runway 27. I turned base early, slipped the RV-9A as hard as it would go, landed halfway down the runway, and stood on the brakes.

Weather

Photographic Logbook

MAY 26, 2025

Despite being charted as an airport with an unimproved surface (the open circle in the above chart), runway 17-35 at Re-Dun is actually paved. However, the runway is not much wider than the 10 foot wheelbase of a Cherokee. Obviously, such a narrow runway is a novel feature of the airport. He's cleared the runway."

Runway

Plane and Pilot

MAY 29, 2025

After all, a private pilots certificate can cost upward of $15,000-$20,000 these days, and it isnt getting any cheaper thanks to rising fuel, instructor, hangar, insurance, and maintenance costs. With access to a 2,100-foot grass runway, club members can often be found flying gliders and Cubs or working in the shop.

Airplanes

Photographic Logbook

DECEMBER 29, 2024

Warrior 481's wheels even sampled five different grass runways in 2024, which is more than usual. Landing on five different grass runways (Woolsey Memorial, 5D5; Basin Harbor B06; Shelburne, VT8; Benton, PA40; and Green, 4N7) in four different states (MI, VT, NY, PA) with three of them being new to me.

Instrument Meteorological Conditions

Vintage Aviation News

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

The New FIO Complex in Getafe The new facility, located near the Getafe airfield and airbase, will feature a 6,000-square-meter hangar designed by Estudio Lamela. The hangar will be 220 meters long, 24 meters deep, and 10 meters high at its tallest point, with a translucent polycarbonate and metal roof.

Hangar

Vintage Aviation News

MAY 20, 2025

On the landing approach, Saari, tightened the strap on his goggles, opened the cockpit, and stuck his head into the slipstream to see the runway, setting the Thunderbolt down safely and rolling to a stop. Saari had no forward visibility, and flew on instruments for the 50-minute flight home.

Tail

Plane and Pilot

MAY 3, 2025

The owner I joined in partnership was the second owner of the Cherokee, and it was based right here, Widell says, gesturing to his spotless hangar at Twin Oaks. At least the Cherokee gave the pilot a better view of the runway from the patternno wing in the wayand lacked the high-wing Cessnas pitch change with flap deployment.

Approach

Photographic Logbook

MAY 25, 2025

The most useless things in aviation are altitude above you, runway behind you, and fuel left on the ground." Multiple student pilots were orbiting in a right-handed pattern north of the airport for touch and go's on runway 27R. Two(ish) mile final for runway 27L at Oakland County International. Aviate, navigate, communicate." "The

OAT

Vintage Aviation News

JUNE 19, 2025

Sometime between 1952 and 1956, the 12/30 runway was extended to accommodate early jet aircraft such as the T-33 Shooting Star. Credit: Richard Vandervord) The facilities were sparse—just two main hangars and a cluster of general aviation buildings—but the expansive tarmac made it ideal for storing aircraft awaiting conversion or maintenance.

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