Photo of the Day

Evan Seitz sent in this photo, snapped when he was visiting Quillayute State Airport (UIL), on Washington State’s Olympic Peninsula in a 1966 Cessna 150G. “Quillayute Airport is an old 1930s Navy blimp base,” he says. “You can see one of the old abandoned hangars in the background.”  

Garth Baker snapped this shot looking southeast across the snow-covered Craters of The Moon National Monument in Idaho on Jan. 2.

American traveler and pilot Brian Ogilvie rented a Cessna 172M while on vacation in the Philippines in November 2010. On this occasion he invited his companion on a flight, taking off from Clark Airfield in Papanga, Philippines. Upon landimg they took this picture to commemorate the wonderful visit and trip. Brian and Evelyn married two years […]

Bryan Painter of Auburn, Wash., sent in these photos of a Cessna 170B over Elliot Bay, Wash., and the same plane over Seattle.

Bud Bauder sent in this photo of his Stearman, which was returned to service after a year of maintenance at Van Sant Airport in Pennsylvania.

Dale Rhodes sent in these photos of his 1960 Bonanza, which he has owned for nine years. The first was taken with Shiprock in the background just outside of Shiprock, N.M., while the second was taken as the Bonanza flew over Monument Valley, Arizona.  

Ken VeArd of Pilot Partner captured this shot while flying in formation with a Vietnam-era Cessna 0-2 piloted by Lee Denham over College Station, Texas. The O-2 saw significant action in Vietnam and still has skins patched from bullet holes received during service. The Warbird will be available for sale soon, VeArd noted.

Bryan Painter sent in this photos of a Mooney in the early morning at Tieton Airstrip (4S6) in Washington state, the Mooney in the grass with a pup under the tail at Bear Valley, Wash. (WN47), as well as the Mooney overflying Boeing Field (KBFI) in Seattle, and then landing at KBFI.