This piece originally ran in the December 2025 issue of EAA Sport Aviation magazine. The relatively unknown North American A-27 was a ground attack variant of the AT-6 Texan, built specifically for Thailand. It differed from the AT-6 by swapping the R-1340 radial...

By Jenna Rose, EAA 1576771 This piece originally ran in the December 2025 issue of EAA Sport Aviation magazine. Like many people, I spent many years dreaming about taking part in the world of aviation before I ever laid my hands on the controls of an airplane. After...

This time on The Green Dot, hosts Hal and Grace are joined by Paul Freeman, who founded the long-running Abandoned & Little-Known Airfields website, which chronicles vanished or abandoned airfields and their unusual histories. The Green Dot, sponsored by Crewchief...

By Rick Ernst, EAA 418493 This piece originally ran in the December 2025 issue of EAA Sport Aviation magazine. I’m a fourth-generation pilot and third-generation A&P mechanic, so there was never a doubt that I would eventually build my own airplane. Sure, I had worked...

By Jim Bell, EAA 543641, EAA Chapter 63, Lyncrest, Manitoba Speyer and Sinsheim are small cities in southern Germany. Speyer has a population of about 50,000 and Sinsheim about 37,000. Each are typical German towns, with plenty of lovely cathedrals and other older...