Backcountry Pilot

Of all the aircraft we wish were still newly-manufactured, the Cessna 170B would be near the top of the list; this rebuilt 1955 model is truly better than new.

A Washington state pilot turns his Cessna 170 on course for the 2016 High Sierra fly-in with a play-by-play account of his journey to the 7th annual high desert backcountry event.

Professional pilot and aviation photographer Leonardo Correa Luna is our first quarter 2017 featured photographer. Get to know the Uruguay native and Cessna 170 pilot as he answers my questions about flying and photography.

A return to Alaska births the realization that repeated experiences with the same old friends and their same old airplanes is a tradition worth repeating, again.

A long-time Alaskan takes some international visitors for a tour of frozen Lake George, and is reminded of the power of the airplane to expose the uninitiated to a wildly different world.

A group of friends depart from the foot of the southern Sierra in their vintage taildraggers, bound for a fly-in in Oregon, and discover one high desert gem after another along the way.