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Nominate an FBO |Rules |Tips |Questions |Winning FBOs As much as we love stories where a pilot discovers a great new FBO because of an unplanned (and often maintenance-related detour), we’ve featured quite a few of those as “FBOs of the Week” lately. This week, turn our attention instead to an FBO that was nominated […]

Submit a Photo |Rules |Tips |Questions |Past Winners Each week, we go through dozens (and sometimes hundreds) of reader-submitted photos and pick the very best to share with you on Thursday mornings. The top photos are featured on AVweb‘s home page, and one photo that stands above the others is awarded an AVweb baseball cap […]

Recommend a Video |VOTW Archive Sons of Maxwell front man Dave Carroll is back in the spotlight with a follow-up to his “United Breaks Guitars” music video. Carroll made news back in July with a YouTube video describing how United Airlines had failed to help him make good on a $3,500 Taylor guitar damaged during […]

Nominate an FBO |Rules |Tips |Questions |Winning FBOs AVweb‘s “FBO of the Week” ribbon goes to the FBO at Henderson Executive Airport (KHND) in Henderson, Nevada. AVweb reader Michael Gibbs explains how some things that happen in Vegas don’t stay in Vegas – they end up on AVweb as beaming accolades: As I pulled into […]

Submit a Photo |Rules |Tips |Questions |Past Winners Each week, we go through dozens (and sometimes hundreds) of reader-submitted photos and pick the very best to share with you on Thursday mornings. The top photos are featured on AVweb‘s home page, and one photo that stands above the others is awarded an AVweb baseball cap […]

Nominate an FBO |Rules |Tips |Questions |Winning FBOs “Have you ever had to argue with a mechanic over the price of a repair?” asks AVweb reader Dean Herrington. You probably have, but it almost certainly didn’t go like the conversation Dean had with a mechanic at Callaway Aviation at Big Bear City Airport (L35) in […]

Submit a Photo |Rules |Tips |Questions |Past Winners Each week, we go through dozens (and sometimes hundreds) of reader-submitted photos and pick the very best to share with you on Thursday mornings. The top photos are featured on AVweb‘s home page, and one photo that stands above the others is awarded an AVweb baseball cap […]

Recommend a Video |VOTW Archive The pilot and backseater aboard a Belarussian Su-27 fighter died Sunday when the aircraft failed to recover from loop at an air show in Radom, Poland. A bird strike is being reported as a factor in the crash, but so far there is no explanation as to why the crew […]

Recommend a Video |VOTW Archive There’s been nothing written (that we can find, anyway) about an accident involving the New Standard biplane used for giving rides at Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome, but this video, posted on YouTube about 10 days ago, tells quite a tale. According to the reader who sent us the YouTube link, the […]

Nominate an FBO |Rules |Tips |Questions |Winning FBOs There’s nothing like firsthand experience when it comes to planning a route with great FBOs along the way. AVweb reader Joseph Barber had been to this week’s top FBO, North Star Aviation at Ravalli County Airport (6S5) in Hamilton, Montana, two years ago and remembered the positive […]