General aviation is driven by myriad forces. A strong or soft market overall can dramatically influence any given airplane’s success, quite apart from how it looks or performs. Pricing, too, carries an outsized influence—get the value proposition right, even at a...
One of the greatest quandaries facing flight school operators is the acquisition of replacement aircraft. The aging fleet flown by many operators is steadily racking up hours, imposing more and more maintenance burdens on 50-year-old airframes while production of new airplanes...
Success can be measured in many ways. Sometimes it’s influence—does the model change the course of the industry or, maybe, uncover a heretofore unseen market niche? Sometimes it’s emotional—the Beech Starship, what few of them are still in the wild, inevitably...
Jason McDowell is a private pilot and Cessna 170 owner based in Madison, Wisconsin. He enjoys researching obscure aviation history and serves as a judge for the National Intercollegiate Flying Association. He can be found on Instagram as @cessnateur....
Meg Godlewski has been an aviation journalist for more than 25 years and a CFI for more than 21 years. If she is not flying or teaching aviation, she is writing about it. Meg is a founding member of the Pilot...
