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• Family Affairs — Preserving Our Heritage of Grass Roots Flying Two brothers just did the craziest thing: they bought an old airport. Now their Lake Ridge Aero Park is celebrating nearly a century of aviation, with a turf runway, taildraggers, a P-51, and a new-born baby.
  History Family Affairs — Preserving Our Heritage of Grass Roots Flying
• Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Charlottesville It started off as a simple charity flight, but the wild ride home was one for the record books. And we're NOT talking about the weather.
  Adventures Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Charlottesville
• A Repeat Offender Gets Back Into the Sky Between the Bomb Squad and the FAA, J.P.’s story will curl your hair.
  Pilots & People A Repeat Offender Gets Back Into the Sky
• Thunderbird Pilot Remembers His Cessna Roots Thunderbird pilot Ron Maness used an ROTC scholarship to pull himself out of rural poverty and into a supersonic aviation career.
  Pilots & People Thunderbird Pilot Remembers His Cessna Roots
• Aircraft Insurance: After the Upgrades Aircraft upgrades can affect insurance valuations. But there's a lot of nuance in figuring out what your revamped bird is worth. And it all started with one unforgettable hangar conversation.
  Plane Ownership Aircraft Insurance: After the Upgrades
• Airplane Judging at Airshows and Fly-Ins Like bees attracted to flowers, the brightly colored “Judge This Plane” placard attracts a different breed of experts: the airplane judges. Here's a close look at who these aeronautical unicorns are and what they do.
  Plane Ownership Airplane Judging at Airshows and Fly-Ins
• Flying ATC Controllers 27 pilots fly new ATC controllers at Goldsboro’s Wayne Executive Jetport, giving hands-on cockpit experience in the “Fly the Controllers” program.
  Pilots & People Flying ATC Controllers
• Better Data Makes Better Airports This report dives into data-driven sensor systems and analytics which have the potential to transform airport operations, improve accuracy, senhance afety, and boost the efficiency of modern aviation.
  Airports & Stewardship Better Data Makes Better Airports
• Cessna Floatplanes Compared: It’s that 24th Gene Floatplane pilots are different from you and me. I test the spectrum of Cessna floatplanes and found one, indeed, which swims above all the others.
  Plane Ownership Cessna Floatplanes Compared: It’s that 24th Gene
• Changing Plans: The Prudent Pilot’s Plan B Every prudent pilot needs a reliable Plan B for those ugly days when the weather changes or your equipment gives you a hard time. Sometimes even a Plan C or D
  Flying with Purpose Changing Plans: The Prudent Pilot’s Plan B
• David vs Goliath: An Adventure of Two Airshows We compare and contrast both the biggest and the smallest airshows in Florida for a side-by-side comparison. Both are great, and it’s a tough call to say which is more fun.
  Adventures David vs Goliath: An Adventure of Two Airshows
• Digital Control Towers Could Boost Aviation Safety Traditional air traffic control towers are expensive white elephants costing $100,000 per square foot. There's a better way, and it’s a lot cheaper too.
  Technology Digital Control Towers Could Boost Aviation Safety
• Einstein's Anniversary and Happy 100th Birthday, GPS No doubt you’ve heard of Albert Einstein and his equation, E=MC2. It ignited a flurry of esoteric controversies which were resolved on May 29, 1919. In the middle of a World War, no less. And today, you are using what they discovered — every single day of your life. Here’s what happened.
  History Einstein's Anniversary and Happy 100th Birthday, GPS
• Floatplanes Surprises: A Quick Sidebar Discussion Just as floatplane pilots are different from the rest of normal humans, floatplanes come with a host of differences. This sidebar looks as some of the nuances.
  Plane Ownership Floatplanes Surprises: A Quick Sidebar Discussion
• Flying Home: the Great Q-Route Mystery The flight from Punta Gorda to Southern Pines was a piece of cake, until ATC assigned a "Q-Route"
  Flying Skills Flying Home: the Great Q-Route Mystery
• Flying the Red Knob, Part 2 David Bunin is no average pilot, and when he wrote an email explaining that I could not fly at 84% on 14 gallons/hour, I had to listen.
  Flying Skills Flying the Red Knob, Part 2
• Flying the Red Knob: “Lean of Peak” Operations With a brand-new engine, I wanted to fly lean-of-peak. But there’s so much contradictory info out there I was scared to try. Here’s what I found
  Flying Skills Flying the Red Knob: “Lean of Peak” Operations
• Going Big: N7591N My Cessna T210 My personal story of buying and flying a Cessna T210 Centurion — the costs, the problems, the performance, the surprises, the joys, and the lobsta!
  Plane Ownership Going Big: N7591N My Cessna T210
• Introducing the Bushcat Light-Sport Taildragger My sturdy Cessna Centurion has never let me down. But there are planes which can be flown far less expensively. Old planes, small planes, simple planes; sacrifice some speed, range, or capacity — but save a ton of money. It’s a nice dream, until my flying buddy Dan calls.
  Plane Ownership Introducing the Bushcat Light-Sport Taildragger
• It’s Time to Get Back to Giving Back Young Eagles events are some of my favorite reasons to fly. Yes, it’s just a quick trip, but it can be an introduction to life lessons that will last a lifetime.
  Flying with Purpose It’s Time to Get Back to Giving Back
• Old ’91N Takes the Long Way Home A renovated N7591N heads to Oshkosh AirVenture with friends for a celebratory birthday flight, but plans need to change unexpectedly, offering another aviation lesson while still in the sky
  Adventures Old ’91N Takes the Long Way Home
• Problems in Paradise from Lazy Flight Training Several friends recently started flight lessons, and they tell me they are worried about the quality of their training. Here’s a look at causes and remedies.
  Flying Skills Problems in Paradise from Lazy Flight Training
• Range Anxiety and Summer Storms "Range anxiety" is exactly the same worry in eleectric vehicles as it is in aviation. With my Cessna T210, I finally put that concern behind me so summer storms would be unlikely to force fuel-stop diversions.
  Plane Ownership Range Anxiety and Summer Storms
• Returning the Honor —The Veterans Airlift Command Winter flying is magical but a big problem is finding someplace to go. The Veterans Airlift Command is a great reason to drag your bird out of the hangar.
  Flying with Purpose Returning the Honor —The Veterans Airlift Command
• Reverse Your Alternate for More Flexible Flying Learn how strategically tweaking your alternate improves IFR flexibility, safety, and efficiency during demanding single-pilot flying trips.
  Flying Skills Reverse Your Alternate for More Flexible Flying
• Rick Giles and His Genial Beast Capt. Rick Giles and his family has been flying the same burly Cessna C180 taildragger, N180MW, for nearly forty' years. Here's the family story.
  Pilots & People Rick Giles and His Genial Beast
• Sentimental Journey Revisited Sentimental Journey is an old-style fly-in at Lock Haven. But the folks grew older and the show withered. In 2025 a new team arrived — can they save it?
  Airports & Stewardship Sentimental Journey Revisited
• Small Airports Can Be Big Business Many G.A. airports are on the endangered-species list. We need to take action to protect, preserve, and promote our airports. And nobody will do it but us pilots.
  Airports & Stewardship Small Airports Can Be Big Business
• Some Like It Hot (But Not on a Runway) A rookie pilot’s dangerous mountain flying experience in a Cessna 172 reveals critical lessons about runway heat and high-altitude flying.
  Flying Skills Some Like It Hot (But Not on a Runway)
• Southern Hospitality Shines at the South Carolina Breakfast Club The story of the South Carolina Breakfast Club is almost eight decades old, and pilots still can't get enough of Sunday morning flying. And the grits.
  Destinations Southern Hospitality Shines at the South Carolina Breakfast Club
• Start a Young Eagles Program Nothing in the cockpit can top the sheer joy of a Young Eagles flight. We need you to start a Young Eagles program at your airport. While it’s a lot of work, it’s also a lot of fun. Here’s my recipe to whip up a program at your local field.
  Flying with Purpose Start a Young Eagles Program
• Stuff Happens, So Play with Your Plane Juvenile animals play at fighting, stalking, and pouncing — skills they use as adults. This is “physical literacy” and is a useful tool for every pilot's logbook.
  Flying Skills Stuff Happens, So Play with Your Plane
• Sun-n-Fun 2022: Cold, Soggy, but Fun A look inside Sun-n-Fun 2022 featuring packed crowds, airshows, the B-29 Doc, and unforgettable aviation moments despite bad weather.
  Adventures Sun-n-Fun 2022: Cold, Soggy, but Fun
• The Best G.A.-Friendly Aviation Museums Explore 20 GA-friendly aviation museums near airports across the U.S., which are perfect $100 hamburger stops for pilots seeking new destinations.
  Destinations The Best G.A.-Friendly Aviation Museums
• Joe Cook’s New Year’s Hangar Party Joe Cook’s annual New Year's hangar party at Pageland Airport features oysters, friendship, some wacky flying machines, and classic pilot stories.
  Pilots & People Joe Cook’s New Year’s Hangar Party
• Time Traveling with Sentimental Journey Oshkosh and Sun-n-Fun have their place on our calendars, but even minuscule fly-ins can be delightful, educational, entertaining, and a boon to their host airport. You should participate in all the fly-ins you can, but for the truly special events, look for those with longevity. Sentimental Journey in Lock Haven, PA (KLHV) certainly meets that criteria.
  Destinations Time Traveling with Sentimental Journey
• The Uncertain Future of Lock Haven Airport Inside City Hall, somebody is trying to sink the Lock Haven Airport (KLHV). The City has reduced pilot services, installed chainlink fences, failed to price services properly, and neglected grants. No wonder the airport is losing money: it’s being mis-managed from the top. Here's are some suggestions to help save any small airport.
  Airports & Stewardship The Uncertain Future of Lock Haven Airport
• You Assumed WHAT? Another Lesson Learned With a huge high-pressure system over the Carolinas delivering spectacular weather, it was time to go flying. My sister reminded me of Charley’s Airport Restaurant at Williamsburg, VA (KJGG). Which means that everything that happened next is all my sister’s fault.
  Flying Skills You Assumed WHAT? Another Lesson Learned
• Cessnas in Space The first satellite which could be seen by the naked eye was a 400 lb. metalized balloon, 100 feet in diameter, called Echo. Now there are hundreds of satellites which are visible at twilight. Here's how to find them.
  Technology Cessnas in Space
• General Aviation Responds to Hurricane Florence In September 2018, Hurricane Florence delivered five days of rain to the Carolina low countries that overwhelmed dikes, covered roads, tore out bridges, and rendered large parts of the Carolinas completely inaccessible. G.A. pilots from across the southeastern United States volunteered to fly relief supplies to affected communities. This is the story of "Operation Airdrop."
  Flying with Purpose General Aviation Responds to Hurricane Florence
• Glowing In the Dark with Tom Pawlesh Photographer and pilot Tom Pawlesh is a pretty amazing guy. Pawlesh flew for a major airline, retiring after 47 years. But photography has always been his second passion. He now enjoys photographing antique airplanes under the most dramatic conditions.
  Pilots & People Glowing In the Dark with Tom Pawlesh
• In Memoriam Dan Benedix My good friend Dan William Benedix succumbed to esophageal cancer on February 14, 2025. A pilot, an entrepreneur, a great husband and dad, and a wonderful humanitarian, Dan was 50 years old.
  Pilots & People In Memoriam Dan Benedix
• AirVenture 2019: Normalcy Returns, Sorta AirVenture officially opened on Monday morning, on-schedule but badly bruised by four different thunderstorms over the previous two days. But the best part always is the people-watching, and it never disappoints at Oshkosh.
  Adventures AirVenture 2019: Normalcy Returns, Sorta
• The AOPA Air Safety Institute Leverages Regional Fly-ins AOPA’s marketing muscle boosted attendance at Akron’s “Props and Pistons” fly-in, but AOPA doesn’t participate in fly-ins just for the P.R. Paul Deres, vice president of AOPA’s Air Safety Foundation, explained the thinking behind AOPA’s commitment to these small, community fly-ins.
  Pilots & People The AOPA Air Safety Institute Leverages Regional Fly-ins
• An Ohio Winter Icing Surprise Joe Marshall and Holly Hayden are thrilled with flying, but know their relative inexperience requires extra caution. That bit of prudence helped them with an inadvertent flight into unexpected icing in December 2024.
  Flying Skills An Ohio Winter Icing Surprise
• Props & Pistons - A Lively Fly-in Gives Back to the Community It Serves The annual “Props and Pistons” fly-in in Akron, Ohio is the “real deal.” For a small show, the flightline was surprisingly well-equipped with warbirds, and dozens of aviation companies were displaying handsome, bug-free airplanes. Traffic was heavy, both on foot and in the air.
  Destinations Props & Pistons - A Lively Fly-in Gives Back to the Community It Serves
• The New Turbocharger Clamp A.D. When my Centurion was in for its annual inspection., my A&P discovered a shiny new A.D. regarding the V-band clamp which joins the exhaust pipe to the turbocharger. Like relatives who stay too long, a lot can go wrong with exhaust systems. But our supplier was sold out — and there were 107 airplanes ahead of mine!
  Plane Ownership The New Turbocharger Clamp A.D.
• Aircraft Turbochargers Dissected A turbocharger is a big, heavy, clunky iron casting added to aircraft engines because the atmosphere thins with altitude. A turbocharger adds more air into the combustion chamber, sustaining the necessary 17:1 air-to-fuel ratio despite the thinning atmosphere. This quick report explains how this clever technology works.
  Technology Aircraft Turbochargers Dissected
• Tips for Better Airplane Photography With modern cell phones, mirrorless-single lens reflex camera, and GoPro action cameras, getting great photos and videos has never been more fun. Here’s a few tips to make your snaps snappier.
  Flying Skills Tips for Better Airplane Photography
• Flying the Hudson River Corridor The Hudson River is about a mile wide as it flows past New York City. G.A. pilots can fly enjoy amazing sight-seeing by flying the special “Hudson River Corridor.” It’s VFR-only and requires a bit of patience, a tiny bit of special training, updated charts, and sharp eyes, but it’s a thrill your passengers will never forget.
  Adventures Flying the Hudson River Corridor
• A Three-Hat Ferry Flight My college roommate, retired Air Force Lt. Col. Bruce Denner, was looking for the airplane of his dreams. His “most wanted” list ebbed and flowed like the tide. In the end, he found a 1975 Cessna 182P. Now we had to get it home.
  Adventures A Three-Hat Ferry Flight
• A Pre-Buy Failure, Or Just Normal Wear and Tear? The new Cessna 182 made a great first impression; her tires were round, her windows clear, her paint handsome, the logbooks were clean. But even after such strenuous efforts it was a surprise that the plane wasn’t perfect. Is this what every new owner should expect?
  Plane Ownership A Pre-Buy Failure, Or Just Normal Wear and Tear?
• Mythbusting the Wrights: The Real First Flight Most of us believe that modern aviation began on December 3, 1903 when the Wright Flyer took to the skies for ten seconds. But seven years before the Wrights, Samuel Pierpont Langley flew an airplane for ninety seconds. The Wrights were very good, but Langley was the first. Here’s his story.
  History Mythbusting the Wrights: The Real First Flight
• Sgt. Adam Kisielewski and His DA42 Some pilots have to work harder than others to perfect their flying skills, but Sargeant Adam Kisielewski defeated more obstacles than most.
  Pilots & People Sgt. Adam Kisielewski and His DA42
• Put-In Bay Visit Every year three of us pick a convenient spot to join up for the final swoosh to Oshkosh. One of us recalled an article about a diminutive island in Lake Erie navigated in golf carts, as hospitable as a Disney resort, and a sufficiency of bistros to serensify even the most thirsty of tourists. But who puts a tower at the end of the runway?
  Destinations Put-In Bay Visit
• Push Your Envelop and Never Stop Learning Sitting at the end of the runway on a dreary morning with the lowest ceiling I have ever seen, I was worried. My hands were shaking. I pondered the poor life-choices which had brought me to this zero-dark hundred departure.
  Flying Skills Push Your Envelop and Never Stop Learning
• Professional Take-off Briefings Save Lives A video from The Pilot Workshop was about emergencies immediately after take-off. The correct answer was simple: do whatever you decided to do in your departure briefing. What’s that? Turns out, there is a lot of wisdom in that simple suggestion.
  Flying Skills Professional Take-off Briefings Save Lives
• Personal Take-off Briefing Pays Off Ken Haenlein is an experienced pilot with decades of Part 135 charter operations. Even when flying solo, “I always talk out my take-off briefing,” he said. This is the harrowing tale of a IFR departure in a Navajo from Wilmington, NC where his discipline really paid off.
  Flying Skills Personal Take-off Briefing Pays Off
• CRATE Your Take-Off Briefings Here’s the CRATE briefing I now use before every flight. Your mileage may vary, but a procedure like this is a professional discipline that could save lives.
  Flying Skills CRATE Your Take-Off Briefings
• Flying the Hump with Maj. Dick Walter One of the great joys of flying is the amazing people you meet. But of all I have met, my favorite is Major Dick Walter. He’s not famous, but he should be. His story will set your hair on fire.
  History Flying the Hump with Maj. Dick Walter
• Mr. AvGas. — Buddy Stallings' Story Buddy Stallings is a handsome, straight-spined, southern gentleman with a handsome mane of white hair, bright eyes, and a sharp wit. A loyal Cessna pilot, he founded Titan Aviation Fuel in March 1975 — “primarily, so I could write-off the costs of an airplane!” Today, the Titan logo is at 575 airports and splayed across about a thousand fuel trucks. Here's his story...
  Pilots & People Mr. AvGas. — Buddy Stallings' Story
• AvGas Technology: Why the Lead? Delivering fifty gallons of 100LL to your Cessna isn’t easy. While the market for 100LL seems huge, that’s actually a niche market in the world of petroleum products. This means the logistics of producing, moving, storing, and delivering high-purity avgas is problematic. In this essay, Buddy Stallings explains why.
  Technology AvGas Technology: Why the Lead?
• A Golfing Surprise: The Best Little Airport in the U.K. The Fife Airport in Glenrothes, Scotland was voted “the best general aviation airport in the UK” in 1998. Today, it is run by Jim and Kate Watt. The Watts sold their flight school business two years ago and made the running the Fife Airport their “retirement business”. “I instruct in the morning,” Jim told me with a big grin, “and fly for fun in the afternoon.”
  Pilots & People A Golfing Surprise: The Best Little Airport in the U.K.
• Don't Land on the Black Dot (and Other Adventures at Triple Tree) The Triple Tree Aerodrome (SC00) in Woodruff, SC is a beautiful aeronautical playground with the most pristine 7,000 foot grass runway your tires have ever touched. There are hundreds of campsites, luxurious glamping bathrooms, and vintage aircraft. But the year at Triple Tree starts with a wintry challenge: the Triple Tree Chilly Chili festival, always on the first weekend in February.
  Destinations Don't Land on the Black Dot (and Other Adventures at Triple Tree)
• Scott Glover and the Magic of the Mid-America Flight Museum The Mid-America Flight Museum at Mount Pleasant Regional Airport (KOSA) in Texas is unique: every airplane in the museum flies, and flies often. This Museum also is not restricted to just one type, mission, make, or vintage of aviation. Glover and his chief pilot, Andrew Kiest, met me one morning in September to chat and view the action.
  Destinations Scott Glover and the Magic of the Mid-America Flight Museum
• Two Words Take the Pressure Out of Your Flying 20 years ago, Vince Edwards was building hours to get into the majors. He got a job in Cuzco, Peru, doing a magnetometer survey. The elevation is so high pilots wear oxygen masks while still on the ground. Vince was very disciplined and refused to fly unless the conditions were perfect. Then, on his very last flight, he almost became the statistic he had worked so hard to avoid.
  Flying Skills Two Words Take the Pressure Out of Your Flying
• Kids and STEM: A Match Made for the Heavens The Virginia Air & Space Science Center in Hampton, Virginia is a glistening and futuristic aviation museum with two dozen or so airplanes on display, mostly hanging from the ceiling. As a museum, its pretty good. But for kids interested in science, technology, engineering, and math, it is so much more.
  Destinations Kids and STEM: A Match Made for the Heavens
• Chat with George Allison, Docent at Virginia Air and Space Center George Allison worked for NASA four decades, at the end of the Apollo program through a hundred space shuttle launches. Now a docent at the Virginia Air and Space Center, he offers an insider’s look at the U.S. space program, NASA, the astronauts, and the future of space travel.
  Pilots & People Chat with George Allison, Docent at Virginia Air and Space Center
• Centurion Flies Anew A new airplane engine is intimidating: a big, beautiful, but wickedly complicated machine. But there were three improvements to be made, including replacing all the analog engine gauges with a modern digital engine monitor. If only real life was as good as the advertising for all these products. The hard work isn’t buying the stuff… it’s bolting it all together.
  Plane Ownership Centurion Flies Anew
• New Breed of Airport Managers Every day I field calls about troubled airports. But once in a while I hear about smart, engaged people making a difference; a new breed of airport managers who are kicking it up a notch. These include Lorraine Martinelli from Madras, Oregon (S33); Tyler Galetka, at Cedar City Regional (KCDC) in Utah, and Heron Weidner who runs the Williamsburg-Jamestown Airport (KJGG). Their stories should inspire all of us.
  Airports & Stewardship New Breed of Airport Managers
• One Oshkosh Arrival, Circa 2023 Pound-for-pound, nothing beats flying to Oshkosh. It’s the Olympics, the World Cup, and Mt. Everest all rolled into one. But flying the famed “FISK Arrival” is neither for the faint-of-heart nor the unprepared. Unwilling to fly the Fisk arrival with only one set of eyeballs, I needed a replacement co-pilot. And not just anyone would do; my standards are high. I found the perfect choice in Nick Phan.
  Adventures One Oshkosh Arrival, Circa 2023
• Vignettes from Oshkosh 2023 To broadly recapitulate all of the excellent reporting of at Oshkosh 2023 —with the only difference being the view from my campsite—would be tedious. A better frame of reference is to offer a series of vignettes. These will spotlight the hundreds of small moments that demonstrate the skills, the ingenuity, the shared community, the playfulness, and the energy of the people of AirVenture. People are why we keep coming back.
  Destinations Vignettes from Oshkosh 2023
• Personal Best - My Long Ride Home My co-pilot Nick Phan and I had been up late at AirVenture 2023 on Wednesday night. But when the rooster crowed on Thursday morning the whole world was in slow motion. It took a long, steamy shower to finally get this old guy firing on all cylinders. After Nick and I preflighted and briefed, some neighbors helped us pull ’91N out. At 10am we fired up the Continental and taxied towards the runway, which is when things came off the rails.
  Adventures Personal Best - My Long Ride Home
• Flying Your Airport Through Political Headwinds Governments are labyrinths designed to shield their activities from prying eyes. While lobbyists have terrible reputations, a good lobbyist is a friendly burglar who can unpick those legislative padlocks. In terms of G.A. airports, the scraps our airports win are better than nothing at all. There are three things I learned from this adventure that are relevant to you and your airport.
  Airports & Stewardship Flying Your Airport Through Political Headwinds
• Surprise! You’ve Got a Temporary Tower Many communities sponsor giant shows, like the Super Bowl and the Final Four; but there are lesser-known attractions which attract thousands of visitors every year. But these shows often are at semi-remote locations with limited runway capacity. When your show goes viral, you need a portable tower, plus the people, phones, radios, and computers needed to seamlessly link into the air traffic control system. When the big-shots arrive in their Gulfstreams, the smart airports call George.
  Airports & Stewardship Surprise! You’ve Got a Temporary Tower
• Life on the Road The Peripatic World of a Visiting ATC Controller Operating a temporary ATC tower is a nomadic life. AirBoss Inc. has 64 tower and airshow contracts this year, and the team is hardly never home. O the other hand, they get to pick and choose the events they want to work. His pal laughed at that. “What’s he’s politely trying to say is I don’t really have a life. And that’s pretty much it.” Here’s the story of what happens when ATC goes on the road.
  Pilots & People Life on the Road The Peripatic World of a Visiting ATC Controller
• Oshkosh 2024: The Week In Review - Picture Perfect in Every Way For 2024, the Oshkosh storm gods took a breather. Chilly overnight temperatures offered great sleeping weather. Tuesday delivered a brief overnight rain which helped suppress the dust. The temperatures and the humidity were ideal, the bright sun delivered stupendous photography, and the gentle winds kept the FISK arrival interesting but safe. Truly an aeronautical unicorn.
  Adventures Oshkosh 2024: The Week In Review - Picture Perfect in Every Way
• Homebuilders at Oshkosh: Airplanes Weird but Wonderful My personal fetish is found in the Homebuilt Zone. Each homebuilt plane flew itself to Wittman Regional so they gotta be doing something right. But only in the Homebuilt Zone you will find the weirdest inventions that have “ever slipped the surly bonds.”
  Plane Ownership Homebuilders at Oshkosh: Airplanes Weird but Wonderful
• Three-Hundred Years of Triple Tree In the 1750s a certain Benjamin Kilgore moved from Pennsylvania and settled near what is now Woodruff, SC. Kilgore’s wife was scalped by local Indians and died of her wounds. Nonetheless, Kilgore persevered and began to farm. Land-rich but cash-poor, the Kilgore family prospered at a long grass strip called Triple Tree.
  Destinations Three-Hundred Years of Triple Tree
• Family Fun at the Triple Tree Fly-in Wilsonville, SC is a mysterious place. Google can’t find it and WAZE won’t show you the way. It only materializes out of the mists once a year at the beginning of September. It’s Brigadoon with a southern accent. But Wilsonville is real: it’s a cluster of the best camp sites at the Triple Tree Fly-in in Woodruff, SC.
  Adventures Family Fun at the Triple Tree Fly-in