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

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

In May 2022, an air-traffic controller in Florida received a frantic call. The pilot of a single-engine Cessna 208 had collapsed, leaving the sole passenger—with no experience at all flying a plane—to ...

I can't believe I get to be a pilot and fly airplanes. Being a pilot is such as blessing! I sometimes have to pinch myself at ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – A pair of sisters are reaching new heights together and it’s impressive. They just got their private pilot licenses at the age of 17. That’s the youngest anyone can get their ...

ANDOVER, Kan. (KSNW) — A teenager getting their driver’s license is like a right of passage. Instead of hitting the road, an Andover teen is taking flight. Zaydie Ladner is a senior at Andover Central ...