Aircraft Ownership

Aircraft ownership is within your reach. From tips related to buying your first or a new plane to the biggest mistakes pilots make when purchasing insurance, our aircraft ownership articles shed light on all of the aspects of owning your own flying machine.

Tuesday, July 5, 2011 Making The Most Of Your Aircraft Asset Aircraft leasebacks can lower the cost of ownership There's a verse that goes: "To be successful, all you have to do is work half a day, and most of the time, you get to pick which 12 hours per day you want to work."

Tuesday, June 21, 2011 A New Era Dawns: Electric Flight An update on airplanes in production, competition prizes and R&D Fantasy time: A shadow flashes across you as you walk toward the airport cafe.

Tuesday, June 7, 2011 Today’s GA Market A dynamic market has created an ideal opportunity for buyers and sellers It's no secret that it is absolutely a buyer's market right now," says Steve Feldman, aircraft broker for AirplanesUSA, one of the largest aircraft dealers in the nation.

Tuesday, May 10, 2011 Caring For Your Aircraft Part III: All About Your Aircraft’s Ignition System Aircraft ignition systems are one of those things that few pilots give much thought to. We turn the key, the prop turns, the engine catches, and we're off for another day of flying.

Tuesday, April 5, 2011 Caring For Your Aircraft Part II: All About Engine Monitors Odds are, the only engine instruments available in your first primary trainer were a tachometer, fuel level, oil temperature and possibly a cylinder head gauge (CHT).

Tuesday, February 22, 2011 Caring For Your Aircraft Part I: Advice from the top engine shops We all know about TBO (Time Between Overhauls or Time Before Overhaul), and we put money aside—mentally, if not in fact—for engine work with every flying hour, because major work is inevitable.

Tuesday, September 21, 2010 ElectriFly 2010 Electric flight is no longer an “if” but a “when” In 2007, a quintessential “garage inventor” named Randall Fishman showed up out of nowhere at Oshkosh AirVenture with an electric-powered ultralight—and quietly turned the aviation world on its ear.

Tuesday, September 21, 2010 A New Lease On Flying Retrofit avionics can add a lot of capability for not a lot of money He hasn’t been out of GA for very long, but as far as the developments he’s missed, nothing comes close to the strides made in avionics over the last few years.

Tuesday, August 24, 2010 Buying Your First Airplane Navigating the purchase maze Buying your first airplane is exciting and confusing, all at once.

Tuesday, August 3, 2010 Beyond Today’s Transponder Demystifying ADS-B Autonomous Dependant Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) has to be one of the most misunderstood technologies of the 21st century.

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