Step-by-step overview explains the modern licensing process, including hours, ratings, and costs for professional pilots.

Organizations like the FAA sometimes use “license” and “certificate” interchangeably on their website, but the official term for a piece of paper that gives you the legal right to fly an aircraft is, ...

Before Savannah Lipinski rides on her first commercial flight, she plans on earning a pilot’s license. The Northwestern High School senior has already begun flying solo in a Cessna 172, a major ...

Being a licensed private pilot is AWESOME. I have enjoyed my private pilot license, especially since I purchased my Piper ...

Davis is one of 14,473 U.S. pilots age 80 and over with active certificates as of December, Federal Aviation Administration ...

Despite mandate, FAA has yet to require photo or biometric-capable ID cards for commercial pilots. Five years after Congress passed a law requiring the Federal Aviation Administration to replace paper ...

OMAHA, Neb. - A 62-year-old Nebraska grandmother is showing the world it's not let to pursue her dreams as she works to obtain her pilot license this spring. Dorsay Einung of Omaha said she was always ...

Youngsters can get an official license to fly a witch's broomstick at the Aviation Museum of New Hampshire on Oct. 19. Courtesy photo/Aviation Museum of New Hampshire LONDONDERRY — Long before the ...

You need a pilot's license to fly most aircraft. However, a loophole allows you to fly certain ultralight aircraft with no ...