Marathon Key gleams in the late-afternoon sunshine. It’s like an emerald in Florida’s highway of island pearls, which dot Route 1 from …
April 2008
2008 Piper Malibu Matrix PA46-350
2008 Piper Malibu Matrix PA46-350 Base price: $757,000 Engine make/model:Lycoming O-TIO-540-AE2AHorsepower:350TBO (hrs …
Hawker Beechcraft G36 Bonanza
Hawker Beechcraft G36 Bonanza Base price:$609,390Engine make/model:Teledyne Continental IO-550-B “Special Edition”Horsepower:300 Empty …
Flying Into The Future
Baby boomers can appreciate the urge to have a little work done as a milestone birthday approaches: tone up the …
Project 182, Part I
Here at Plane & Pilot, we seem to enjoy lavishing full rebuilds on old Skylanes. Back in the late ’70s, I …
From The Editor: Cars & Planes
About a year ago, I was driving north on the 405, a freeway in Los Angeles that’s usually a …
$1,000 Per Month Airplane
Because response to Plane & Pilot’s â$500 Per Month?â article [October 2007] was so overwhelming, we decided to take the …
Airplanes, Cars”What‘s the Difference?
What’s the difference between car (or motorcycle) engines and aircraft engines? It’s a perennial question with a series …
LSA Safety
We seem to be at the dawn of a new era of hope for general aviation’s future with the …
The Ugly Side Of Spring
Whether Punxsutawney Phil sees his own shadow or not, winter is losing its death grip. But it isn’t dead …
LightHawk: The Truth From Above
Among the earliest things we learned during our initial flying lessons, just after we sorted out the challenge of flying …