The national flight school is adding 55 Cessna Skyhawks to its training fleet. David Wiles has been a resident of Winfield Airpark (54AR) for a little over a year. Extremely pleased with airpark ...

Once again I'm back in the air for another flight lesson. In this lesson I focus on learning how to land, and how to configure the airplane to prepare for the same. I also learn about "glass" or ...

Gastonia has a place where people can fly, where they can pilot a $500,000 Cessna 172 Skyhawk and feel the wind underneath their wings. "Once you’re in the cockpit, you have a different level of ...

If you get the flying bug, you may be interested in the pitfalls encountered when I made the leap. There seem to be two types of flight instructors. One is the veteran whose aspirations in life are ...

The Cessna 172 is the world's best-selling civil aircraft, with more than 45,000 units sold. The plane is commonly used as a trainer aircraft for beginner pilots. The plane costs around $50,000 if ...