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IATA released data for October 2025 global air cargo markets marking the eight consecutive month of overall growth and setting a new monthly record for volumes.
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 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.
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...
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
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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
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.
IATA dismissed the Premium Flyers Solidarity Coalition Declaration, emphasizing that the proposed tax on air travelers lacks any credible analysis of the negative effects it may have on the countries it aims to support.
IATA, together with the governments of Japan, Malaysia and leading industry stakeholders, have issued a joint statement at COP30, urging governments and the international community to reaffirm ICAO's leadership.
Jumpstart Your Build My friends are selling their partially completed Vans RV-7A kit. Located near Seattle, WA is a complete Vans RV-7A slider kit with no laser cut parts, numerous upgrades, and more than 1000 hours of labor put into the construction. It’s at a point where you could finish the cabin, mate the canopy, stand it up on gear, and then move on to avionics or your engine. It comes with the following:All plans: (e.g. instructions and engineering drawings) Empennage kit: build
Wrap it Up for Yourelf! A year ago at the Western Washington Aviation Conference I met a delightful couple with two amazing children. The kids each went home with one of the children's books and then this fall, I attended their school and read the Happy Plane to the students. Amazing connections came from that conference. When I heard they wanted to sell their family plane, I offered to share that here because she is a beauty and needs a good home. Due to their busy life and two growing chi
One Step Closer to Winning $1000Dr. Faulkner From Then to NowWhen the legal system doesn't hold anyone accountable, someone must take justice into their own hands. The 8th Novel in the Flight For Series is released. Flight For Revenge. And those deserving characters are being disposed of, one by one. I'm now revealing the truth and what's gone before to help you win $1000. For those who don't know, I wrote novels throughout my ordeal with Delta. They were fiction based
This piece originally ran in the October 2025 issue of EAA Sport Aviation magazine. For 32 years Gary Baker, EAA Lifetime 251742, has given his time and expertise to EAA and Chapter 846. As a young boy, Gary knew he wanted to become a pilot. Although no one in his family knew how to fly, […] The post Volunteer Spotlight — Gary Baker first appeared on Hangar Flying.
Remember when I posted that Frontier had seen strong fare gains in Q2 results compared to last year? I’m going to have to take that back. I went on quite a journey to try and get some answers to what actually was happening here, but in the end, I got none. Instead, I built my...
We had already learned that American’s very first A321XLR route would be on transcon from New York/JFK to LAX, but it wasn’t until last week that we found out where the airplane would first fly across the Pond. First stop? Edinburgh. It was never really in doubt that the first Transatlantic flight would go from...
WE NEED YOU! HIMS was a 1974 study to research military pilots with respect to alcohol abuse who would become airline pilots. This HIMS research transitioned into an assistance program. Today, however, this program has shifted from helping pilots to a money-making pilot abuse program that has enabled a medical industry to extort money from airman. Doctors assert airman have a substance abuse disorder, whether they do or not, and then threaten their airline careers if they don’t partici
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The Air Survey and Transport Company was formed in 1928 by Douglas Mill, a former pilot of the New Zealand Flying School. The company establish itself at Auckland’s Hobsonville aerodrome with a hangar built across the main road from the aerodrome which meant the planes had to cross the road for maintenance. Bob Johnson, also of the New Zealand Flying School, was appointed service manager.&
By Bill Darnell, EAA 576650 This piece originally ran in the September 2025 issue of EAA Sport Aviation magazine. I am told by some of the more senior members of the Michigan Ultralight Association (MULA) Flying Club about past fly-ins and ultralight gatherings. I’ve heard tales of fly-ins at Purdy Field where aircraft lined both […] The post Where Are All the Ultralights? first appeared on Hangar Flying.