Photo of the Day

Bob Martin sent in this photo of Jack Stuart hand propping a vintage Taylorcraft at the annual fly-in at the Havana Regional Airport (9I0) in Illinois. More than 50 pilots took advantage of beautiful weather and awesome pancakes over Labor Day weekend, Martin reports.  

Chuck Rosenfeld sent in this photo taken by Cathy Boyko at this year’s AirVenture in Oshkosh. “Flight of two Ercoupes cleared for takeoff,” as Maynard Smith and Chuck Rosenfeld depart from the airshow in Ercoupe 415s.

The folks at Oceania Aviation at Ardmore Airport in Auckland, New Zealand, sent in this photo, explaining: “Ex-Era Helicopters AS350B2 (N186EH) getting ready to leave the Oceania Aviation Hangar as ZK-IEP with a fresh NZCAA CofA.”

Steve Sundstrom sent in this photo, noting, “It’s a great day to go flying off my grass field Wolfe Airpark (3T2) outside of Houston.”

Size definitely matters when your hangar door has to be big enough to allow access for rockets. Schweiss Doors, which provides hangar doors of every size from the smallest GA hangar to Cape Canaveral, recently delivered two doors to SpaceX, with one 40 feet wide and 69 feet tall, while the other is 90 feet wide […]

John McGraw sent in this photo of a 1966 Cessna 185 with the orignal paint.

John McGraw sent in this photo of a 1955 Cessna 180 landing at North Omaha Airport (3NO) in Nebraska.