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Big Creek Airport in Idaho's Frank Church Wilderness offers one of the most demanding and rewarding backcountry flying experiences in the lower 48 states.
KAVX Airport in the Sky sits at 1,602 feet MSL on Catalina Island, 22 miles off the California coast - one of GA's best VFR destinations.
EAA Chapter 119's Saturday morning fly-in breakfast at Watsonville Municipal (KWVI) is one of the most enduring fly-in traditions on the California coast.
Moose Creek (1U1): a 1,900-foot grass strip in Idaho's Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness - the one-way canyon approach that commits you before the trees clear.
Sedona Airport (SEZ) sits atop a 4,827-foot mesa in Arizona's Verde Valley with one of GA aviation's most dramatic and rewarding approaches.
The solo shirt cut connects today's student pilots to 1930s military aviators through one of aviation's most enduring and unwritten traditions.
KAVX sits at 1,602 feet MSL on a Pacific island ridge 22 miles offshore - a breathtaking destination that demands careful weather planning, fuel discipline, and bison awareness.
Schafer Meadows (7S8) in Montana's Bob Marshall Wilderness is one of North America's most demanding backcountry airstrips - here's what every pilot needs to know before flying in.
The Valdez Fly-In STOL competition is where the world's most aggressively modified bush planes and their pilots push short-field performance to its absolute limits.
Johnson Creek is a 2,000-foot grass strip at 4,900 feet MSL in Idaho's Salmon River Mountains - the definitive proving ground for western backcountry pilots.
Sedona Airport (KSEZ) sits atop a 4,827-foot mesa surrounded by red rock formations - a must-visit VFR destination for any Arizona pilot.
The North Forty at EAA AirVenture packs 10,000 aircraft and their pilots into acres of Wisconsin grass for one week each July - here's what to expect.
Gaston's White River Resort (3AR6) near Lakeview, Arkansas offers pilots a 3,200-foot grass strip, world-class trout fishing, and fresh-caught riverside dining in the Ozarks.
Mackinac Island Airport (MCD) lands you on a car-free island in the Michigan Straits where horse-drawn carriages serve as taxis and a Victorian town has barely changed since 1898.
KAVX - Catalina Island's Airport in the Sky - offers a 22-mile over-water approach, a ridge-top runway at 1,600 feet, and a buffalo burger with a genuine century-old backstory.
Tangier Island Airport (TGI) is a 2,900-foot strip in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay - and one of the East Coast's most rewarding destination airports.
Johnson Creek Airport (22S) is Idaho's most storied backcountry strip - a 2,200-foot grass runway at 4,960 feet MSL connecting pilots to wilderness, community, and a small town reachable no other way.
Spruce Creek Fly-In in Port Orange, Florida is one of the world's largest residential aviation communities, where taxiways serve as streets and hangars replace garages.
EAA chapter breakfast fly-ins have sustained general aviation's community since the 1950s - here's what makes the Saturday morning tradition irreplaceable.
Catalina Island Airport (KAVX) pairs a Pacific ocean crossing with a mesa canyon approach - and bison on the runway - making it GA's most memorable destination.