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AVweb’s General Aviation Accident Bulletin is taken from the pages of our sister publication,Aviation Safety magazine. All the reports listed here are preliminary and include only initial factual findings about crashes. You can learn more about the final probable cause on the NTSB’s website at www.ntsb.gov. Final reports appear about a year after the accident, […]

One of the things that makes Oshkosh special is the simultaneous focus on past and future. Anniversaries are as much a part of AirVenture as innovations and this year there are some big names marking their half-century. From the fly-in location itself to a man on the moon, there’s a lot to be remembered 50 […]

Returning home to Peachtree DeKalb airport in metro Atlanta, I heard the following: Atlanta Approach: “Citation 1234, expect the visual to Runway 21L at Peachtree. Let me know when you have the weather.” Citation 1234: “Approach, Citation 1234, we have the weather for Peachtree. And, we have the airport in sight, if that’s important.” Approach: […]

Paul’s House I took a tour of The Poberezny Estate on the first day it was opened for Airventure 2017. I, too, was awestruck by the beauty of the place, the thoughtful organization of the spaces he built and the restoration of a beautiful old Farm home. The docent who gave the tour said that […]

The second time I received a postcard showing a photo of a smiling gentleman of “senior” age seated in the left seat of an aircraft and emblazoned with the words Over 65? Boy, do we have a job for you!, I began wondering if the industry has really gotten so desperate for pilots that they […]

In January 2017, Jim Irwin, president of Aircraft Spruce & Specialty, purchased the Paul Poberezny estate in Oshkosh with the goal of preserving a vital part of EAA history. Situated on a little over nine acres of land, with a Paul-made pond (Lake Audrey) and dozens of Paul-planted trees (the land was flat and barren […]

AVweb’s General Aviation Accident Bulletin is taken from the pages of our sister publication,Aviation Safety magazine. All the reports listed here are preliminary and include only initial factual findings about crashes. You can learn more about the final probable cause on the NTSB’s website at www.ntsb.gov. Final reports appear about a year after the accident, […]

I’d stepped into the pilot’s lounge at the virtual airport after finishing up with my last student of the day. I didn’t think anyone was still in the building and I wanted to make sure the coffee maker was off—it has a tendency to create enough smoke to fog the room by morning if left […]

Flying to OSH Last year was only my second time flying the Oshkosh VFR arrival, so I’ll take everyone’s word that it was the worst they’d ever seen. And I’ll believe that too, because it was the craziest thing I’d ever seen and I’m surprised there weren’t any mid-airs because I saw some dangerous flying […]

We were on a training flight to Ramona Airport. The ceiling was 3000 broken on a gorgeous winter day in San Diego. We heard the tower talking to an aircraft departing the pattern: Tower: “Caution. Birds, westbound 700 feet.” A few minutes later we heard: Tower: “Those birds are geese flocking up.” This was followed […]