AV Web

MAY 19, 2024

Our local flying club was having its yearly “Talk Like a Pilot Day” cookout at their hangar, and I was invited to give the keynote address. The public sees us as swashbuckling adventurers bent on destruction and mayhem as we sail our carbon-producing chem-tail-spewing airplanes above their heads. Scratch a pilot, find a pirate.

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Pilot General Aviation Airplanes Hangar 116

Flying Magazine

MAY 6, 2024

A hangar home at Pecan Plantation. Some buyers have even planned well in advance for their retirement, snapping up lots years before building their dream hangar home. Mills learned to fly in the aircraft and has completed a tip-to-tail restoration, sparing no expense since assuming its ownership several years ago.

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Runway Hangar Pilot Tail 116

Vintage Aviation News

JANUARY 12, 2025

The tail came up as it gathered speed, throwing up a cataract of red-brown mud. 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. The Wasp engine roared as mud sloshed under the wheels of the crimson red Vega.

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Airplanes Tail Pilot Cockpit 52

World Airline News

MARCH 27, 2025

Photos courtesy of Brussels Airlines Brussels, March 26, 2025 – Brussels Airlines, in proud collaboration with the Atomium, is thrilled to introduce its newest Belgian Icon dedicated to the renowned landmark. … and brings yet another little piece of Belgium in the air.

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NYC Aviation

JANUARY 19, 2022

Tuesday evening saw a significant milestone in Northern Pacific Airways’ path to launch, as they unveiled their first aircraft at a paint hangar in San Bernardino, California. After most airlines retired or began a phase-out of the 757 from their fleets, the type has been seeing a common second life in cargo operations.

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Payload Cargo Airplanes Tail 52

Flying Magazine

MAY 10, 2024

The model has 48 ring frames for the bulkheads, from nose to tail. “I also built the 36 longitudinals, which ran through all the bulkheads from nose to tail, and the fabrication of the cruciform tail fins,” he said. Like so many builders, he opted to move the project out to the airport.

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Lift Ceiling Tail Hangar 52

Universal Weather

MAY 9, 2023

Only scheduled commercial airlines require airport slots for Costa Rica. Once the PPR is approved, you will receive a confirmation ID, which will be your tail number and date of operation. Hangar facilities are not available for transient business aviation operations at MROC. MROC has only eight GA parking spots. NXXXdatemonth).

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Universal Weather

JANUARY 10, 2024

Historically, ZSPD was primarily geared toward scheduled commercial airlines. During peak hours (0900-2200 LCL) GA aircraft are limited to one movement per tail number (one arrival or one departure), and no quick turns are allowed. If outside parking is full, they’ll try for the Centralized Parking Area or a hangar space.

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Clearance Fixed Base Operator UTC Tail 52

Universal Weather

JANUARY 29, 2024

While hangars are available for transient business aircraft, space is limited, with availability on a first-come basis. Peak hours of scheduled airline activity are usually 0630-1000 local. FBOs and Hangarage While hangars are available for transient business aircraft, space is limited, with availability on a first-come basis.

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Clearance Weather Weight-Shift-Control Runway 52

Aerotime

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

He is said to have been very hands-on with the refurbishment of the Lisa Marie, picking fabrics, finishes, and colors, and regularly visiting the hangar at Meacham Field in Fort Worth to check on progress. The plane was painted white and featured a blue and red strap from its nose through the whole fuselage to the tail.

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Jet Airplanes Tail Pilot 246

Universal Weather

MARCH 29, 2024

A UK TCO certificate is a document that certifies that an airline from a non-European Union (EU) country meets the necessary safety standards and is authorized to operate flights into and out of the UK. During inclement weather conditions, hangar space may be available for transient general aviation.

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Flight Plan Weather General Aviation Clearance 52

Photographic Logbook

OCTOBER 10, 2023

A prop lock is required on all aircraft parked outside of a hangar at the MD-3 airports, though throttle locks provide an alternate means of compliance. I gave my tail number and destination. "Oh, I shut down the Warrior, tidied up the cockpit, and met him at the nose of my airplane. Moe held out what appeared to be a bicycle lock. "Do

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Ask the Pilot

MARCH 13, 2025

AS MY REGULARS know, critiquing airline liveries is my favorite thing in the world. I don’t which part irks me more: the boring typeface, the blank bottom, or the tail emblem, which is a neutered version of the one it replaces. Then we have the tail. Especially the ugly ones, which nowadays is pretty much all of them.

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Tail Airlines Airline Runway 99

Vintage Aviation News

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

This was the same aircraft where the Bellanca Aircraft Company set up its factory and where Air Service had built a new hangar in 1935 on the site of one that had burned in 1934 (Today, Air Service’s 1935 hangar now serves as the home of the Bellanca Airfield Museum). I went by Tom’s hangar to get his opinion.

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Firewall Airplanes Hangar Tail 98

Vintage Aviation News

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

(Nigel Hitchman) The story of the Breguet Deux-Ponts begins even before WWII, when Breguet Aviation began design work on the concept for a large four engine transport with two decks for passengers called the Breguet 760, which was based on the wings and tail assembly of the Breguet 730 flying boat.

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Vintage Aviation News

APRIL 26, 2024

Photo copyright Russell Munson] On April 26th, 1964 a radial-powered biplane with wings and tail in Champion Yellow and Stearman Vermillion-painted fuselage took off from an airfield near Lumberton, NC. Interestingly, that F-24R – formerly NC77647 and later G-FANC – was exported to the UK but was destroyed in a hangar fire in 2003.”

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Airplanes Aileron Tail Hangar 105

Vintage Aviation News

JANUARY 10, 2025

It was then given to the local provincial airline “Empresa Provincial de Aviacin Civil” who operated it from Santiago Del Estero mostly on aerial photography until 1976 when it landed with an engine failure and was abandoned, eventually ending up near the aeroclub.

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Cockpit Hangar Pilot Rudder 111

Vintage Aviation News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

In July 1946, NM-24 was acquired by Milton “Milt” Hershberger, a former barnstormer who had established Island Air Service (later known as Island Airlines) to serve the people of Ohio’s Bass Islands, a popular summer tourist destination for Ohioans that were often iced in during the harsh winter months. View of NC9684_s tail, May 2016.

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Tail Pilot Airlines Airline 111

Photographic Logbook

OCTOBER 19, 2023

On the ramp at Kingston with the former airline terminal and control tower. The Ottawa controllers liked to use the last four digits of my tail number instead of just the last three, which sounded incredibly unfamiliar and clunky to my ear.) Canada Aviation and Space Museum Reserve Hangar. What the Heck is a LANRK?

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Runway Flight Plan Clearance Weather 52

Fear of Landing

JUNE 7, 2024

Sixty-two years ago, on the 22nd of May 1962, Continental Airlines flight 11 broke up at 39,000 feet. The stairs had already been moved away from the airliner, a Boeing 707, but when the gate agent reported that two more passengers had arrived, the stairs were brought back so that they could board.

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Flying Magazine

MAY 6, 2024

Measuring 804 feet nose to tail, it was larger than the record-setting LZ-127, the Graf Zeppelin , commanded by factory manager Hugo Eckner. Unlike airliners of today, you could walk around and stretch out in the passenger cabin. The men inside held on for dear life until the tail came back down. To travel on it was luxurious.

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Tail Hangar Weather Approach 109

Air Facts

OCTOBER 7, 2024

But my goal was to fly the airliners that, as a child, I watched climbing out from La Guardia Airport over our Bronx apartment. I showed up early for the first afternoon launch, stopping by the hangar gedunk (pronounced gee-dunk, the sailor’s term for snack bar) to wolf down a cheese omelet chased with a chocolate shake.

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Cockpit Rudder Tail Indicated Airspeed 98

Vintage Aviation News

JULY 12, 2024

The weekend is action-packed with daily airshows, aircraft displays, military vehicles, WWII veterans, speakers, presentations, vendors, entertainers, Homefront education, mock battles, 20-plus acres of WWII encampments, nightly big-band hangar dances, and of course, the reenactors. The team owns and operates two WWII veteran transports.

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Cargo Hangar Ferry Flight Weather 116

Photographic Logbook

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The Reserve Hangar 1948 Canadair C-54GM North Star 1 ST, a derivative of the DC-4 and the sole surviving example of its type. Before exploring the main museum, I joined the 11:30 tour of the Reserve Hangar. The Reserve Hangar is so large that it easily swallowed this DC-9 airliner in Air Canada livery.

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Airplanes Hangar Pilot Tail 52

Fear of Landing

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Lola was among the first female commercial pilots, breaking barriers in aviation when airliners were almost exclusively male territory. Lola went on to become a commercial airline transport pilot, flight instructor, SCUBA divemaster, and an award-winning author and photographer.

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Weather Knot Pilot Distance Measuring Equipment 98

Vintage Aviation News

MAY 16, 2024

Next was a de Havilland “cavalcade”, one of the most famous British manufacturers, de Havilland built everything from famous training aircraft to jet fighters, the fabulous Mosquito wooden bomber, and passenger airliners including the world’s first commercial jet airliner the Comet.

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Crosswind Jet Weather Tail 52

Vintage Aviation News

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

Developed as an all-metal light airliner, the Model 10 Electra was widely used around the world in various civil and military purposes carrying everything from freight to high profile civilian and military officials. Lockheed Model 10A Electra prototype, NC233Y, Northwest Airlines fleet number 60, after modification to production standards.

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Tail Stability Airlines Airline 109

Photographic Logbook

SEPTEMBER 22, 2024

I spotted something new incongruously placed in the Curtiss hangar. With a passenger capacity of six, the airplane was popular with early airlines Braniff, Delta, and Northwest, though it was also an effective freight hauler. He's at full takeoff power and he's got the tail up! New Kid in Town 1917 Fokker D.VI (reproduction).

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