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B18 - Alton Bay, New Hampshire: the only ice runway in the lower 48 with an FAA identifier when the ice is thick enough. The...

My home airport is KAPA, which used to be Arapahoe County Airport but is now Centennial Airport in the south metropolitan area of Denver,...

I was returning to Denver from some mountain and canyon flying in Idaho one busy Friday afternoon in July, headed towards my fuel stop...

On one flight, with only a crew of three (no passengers) onboard the Global Express and light on fuel, I requested a climb to...

In the summer of 1970, at the ripe old age of 16, with a total of 27 hours (13 solo), I convinced my instructor...

About 25 years ago, I was working 'ramp' for a local airshow. Three Warbirds called the Tower upon their arrival. Number one was P-47...

I overheard this exchange with the local TRACON, NorCal Approach, while flying along California’s central valley: NorCal Approach: Cessna XXXX maintain at or above three...

There are many stories about the horrible freeze we had in Texas this year, but I think this one of the funniest. I planned...

We were flying into Watsonville, a non‑towered airport on California's Monterey Bay coast recently, on an unexpectedly clear summer evening. When we tuned into...

During the peak of last summer’s pandemic there was not a lot of air traffic or radio traffic with commercial travel being at a...