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By James Clark, EAA Lifetime 466543 11-year-old Margaret Clark, my daughter, is working on her communications and aviation merit badges for Scouting America, and she would love to share the following: “My dad has been in EAA since he was a kid, and his dad, my grandpa, signed him up for EAA at the Oshkosh […] The post Scout Shares What EAA Means to Her first appeared on Hangar Flying.
By Mark Solper with Lee Fischer This piece originally ran in the October 2025 issue of EAA Sport Aviation magazine. Paul Poberezny once said, “Airplanes bring us together, but friendships keep us together.” Little did I know that a short call to EAA and a subsequent visit with Timm Bogenhagen, EAA’s ultralight and lightplane community […] The post Aviation Dreams Reborn first appeared on Hangar Flying.
By David Paradis, EAA 877365 My RV-8, N814DP, was donated to the Western Antique Aircraft and Automobile Museum in December 2024. I convinced the founder Terry Brandt and his board of directors that even though this aircraft is not an antique, any aircraft museum in the state of Oregon should have at least one example […] The post Navy-Inspired RV-8 on Display at WAAAM first appeared on Hangar Flying.
By Aidan Lara and Ray Ballantyne, EAA 808555, EAA Chapter 430 President “By 2100z on Sunday, Oct. 26th, the TAFs were looking good for the flyout to Roche Harbor for Monday, Oct. 27th, so I sent out the ‘flyout is on’ announcement. By this time, I had 16 confirmed to attend,” reported Aidan Lara, EAA […] The post EAA and WPA Flyout to Roche Harbor, San Juan Island first appeared on Hangar Flying.
Last week, our Young Professionals’ Network had the opportunity to represent NATS at the Dubai Airshow.From meeting inspiring peers from the Dubai Air Navigation Service Youth Council to presenting to senior leaders, the week offered a fantastic chance for us as a network to strengthen global connections and highlight the power of collaboration. The post Connecting young talent: NATS young professionals take flight at the Dubai Airshow appeared first on NATS Blog.
It's time for 2025's final Infographics of the Month - we'll publish a bumper annual edition in December. So what has the data been telling us in November? Our charts and infographics highlight top US airlines' and airports' capacity and punctuality performance, a 4% decrease in global average airfares and more.
There are some places on my bucket list to visit before I die, and then there are other places which I have absolutely no desire to visit at all. The Redneck Riviera falls into the latter category despite being hugely popular as a regional destination. And now, it’s become popular enough that it has expanded...
Scotland’s lower airspace is based on a design built for aircraft and navigation technology that belong to another era. Demand has grown, aircraft have changed and the invisible infrastructure that keeps flights safely moving needs a comprehensive upgrade to keep pace. The post From concept to consultation appeared first on NATS Blog.
You may have heard that United has decided not to fly Washington/Dulles – Dakar and Newark – Stockholm next year. Many have assumed that this is due to weak demand, but that doesn’t appear to be the primary driver. After speaking with several sources, it seems United has an engine shortage, and it has no...
IATA released the Value of Air Transport Study for Uzbekistan, highlighting that the country’s continued focus on aviation has resulted in growing benefits in terms of jobs and economic activity.
A couple of little snippets about Merlin Labs... On the 6th of November 2025 Taupo Tandem Skydiving's Cessna 208 Grand Caravan ZK-JMP did a Kerikeri local flight as MERLIN 1. It then positioned to Paraparaumu on the 7th of November. On the 10th of November, it flew to Kaikoura and operated two crayfish flights from Kaikoura to Wellington as MERLIN 1 as part of the Air Kaikoura
Bay Area airports prep for busy holiday travel as uncertainties loom – Mercury NewsIt’s time for holiday travel, and that means a blur of requests to discuss travel tips… but not this one. This was a more substantive story about how Oakland and San Jose are suffering while SFO continues to strengthen. Why? Southwest has...
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Catching up on Barrier Air news and in particular the winter lease of two of their Cessna 208 Grand Caravans...Barrier Air's Cessna 208B Grand Caravan ZK-SDG had flown to Wanaka and Queenstown on the 23rd of June for use by Milford Sound Flights. It did its final flights for the southern company on the 16th of October 2025 with two return flights from Queenstown to Milford Sound before
JetBlue Adds Two to Europe JetBlue Airways announced two new European destinations on Wednesday, adding service from Boston to both Barcelona and Milan/Malpensa. The flights will be daily for the summer, and will connect JetBlue’s second destination in Spain and its first in Italy with its Boston hub. Barcelona flights will begin April 16, followed...
On the 6th November 2025, the residents of a small Indigenous community in Guyana’s South Rupununi looked up from their errands to see a Cessna Grand Caravan landing on the road bside their brand-new secondary school. The Caravan, registered in Guyana as 8R-THR and operated by Air Services Limited, had departed normally from Eugene F.…
By Brian Garrett, EAA Lifetime 871500 This piece originally ran in the October 2025 issue of EAA Sport Aviation magazine. In the depths of the COVID-19 pandemic, building an airplane just seemed like the right thing to do. I’d been flying old certified airplanes for a while and was getting tired of the baggage that […] The post What Our Members Are Building/Restoring — Colorado Sling TSi first appeared on Hangar Flying.
By Marc Breen, EAA 1468014 By 1925, Americans could travel long distances by train or automobile; but the idea of commercial aviation only existed in dreams and imagination. Air travel seemed like an interesting concept, but also was somewhat unreliable at the time, which meant that it was enjoyed only by the brave — soldiers […] The post 1925 National Air Reliability Tour: 100th Anniversary Commemorative Mooney Edition first appeared on Hangar Flying.
By Patty Fulop, EAA 1049894, Geauga County Airport Community Outreach Coordinator Two local youths fly their first solo flights! The Geauga County Airport in Middlefield, Ohio, has remarkable groups that are part of the airport community. EAA Chapter 5 is a longtime tenant at the airport that gives back in a big way! EAA Chapter […] The post Solo Milestone: EAA Chapter 5 Scholars Take Flight first appeared on Hangar Flying.
September has always been a bad month for leisure airlines. That’s the first full month after kids are back in school, and it’s when almost nobody is flying to the disgustly-swampy, occassionally-hurricaney land of Florida. In reality, people aren’t doing much leisure travel at all that month, so leisure airlines do what they can to...
EASA and IATA signed a Memorandum of Understanding to explore synergies between the European Union Flight Emissions Label and IATA’s existing environmental data management ecosystem–IATA’s EcoHub and IATA CO2 Connect.