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The 44th Annual Cracker Fly-In, hosted by the Experimental Aircraft Association, Chapter 611, once again lived up to its reputation as a fun event at Lee Gilmer Memorial Airport in Gainesville on Saturday. Fair weather and a cool morning breeze greeted pilots, their planes and the estimated 2,500 visitors who came out to view them [...]

Lock Haven fly-in pays tribute to a humble yellow plane made in Pennsylvania The normally quiet skies above Lock Haven soon will hum when hundreds of light planes begin their final approaches to William T. Piper Memorial Airport. The grassy area next to the runway will be yellow with Piper Cubs and dotted with dozens [...]

In honor of the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Piper J-3 Cub, hundreds of Cub owners and pilots plan to fly from Hartford, Wis., to EAA AirVenture in Oshkosh on Sunday, July 22, according to Rick Rademacher, one of the organizers of Cubs 2 Oshkosh. Rademacher said he hopes the event will connect pilots in the [...]