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October 04, 2024

Misguided Officers Shut Down Volunteer Rescue Mission

Pilot Threatened With Arrest for Saving Stranded Hurricane Victims

After seeing a Facebook post about a family stranded on a mountain, Jordan Seidhom and his son set out on a rescue mission with their Robinson R44 helicopter. However, local authorities quickly intervened, threatening to arrest Seidhom if he proceeded with the operation. Less than half an hour later, a TFR was issued in the area.

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NTSB Prelim: Cessna 421C

The Pilot Responded That He Was Having “Handling Problems” Followed By A Partial Radio Transmission Of “Test Flight; I Can’T Get This Thing To.”

On August 31, 2024, about 1030 Pacific daylight time, a Cessna 421C, N421GP was destroyed when it was involved in an accident near Fairview, Oregon. The two pilots and one person on the ground were fatally injured. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 personal flight. Prior to departure, the pilot contacted the Troutdale Airport (TTD), Portland, Oregon, Air Traffic Control Tower (ATCT) and requested a visual flight rules departure from runway 25 and to remain within the airport traffic pattern.

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Classic Aero-TV: PlaneTags and the Business of Resurrection

From 2023 (YouTube Edition): Very Cool and Highly Collectable

An offshoot of MotoArt, the first and only concern to handcraft one-of-a-kind articles of furniture from the salvaged structures and components of decommissioned aircraft, PlaneTags is an ever-broadening line of aviation mementos fashioned—hand-cut, stamped, shaped, and individually etched—from the skins of retired aircraft. Cognizant of the innumerable stories preserved figuratively and literally throughout the forlorn carcasses of once-proud aircraft relegated to the world’s boneyards, PlaneTags’s personnel scour the globe in perpetuity, s

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