During an early May afternoon, the distinctive form of a Beechcraft King Air 350ER turned inbound to northeastern Ohio’s Youngstown-Warren Regional Airport (KYNG). Sided with sharp-edged U.S. Air Force markings 090641, the aircraft impinged smoothly onto Runway 32. To the surprise of waiting spectators, hand-painted lettering N6441Y marred the elegant fuselage curves. As the Pratt…
The instant the water bottle touched my lips, gusts generated by stone-walled castles and manors below our 50-foot, 6-inch two-spar wing forced the container airborne. Beside me, in the aircraft’s 266-cubic-foot interior, the copilot’s seeping airsickness bag flopped onto the floor and split. Steady on heading, I contemplated why I happened to be 400 feet…
Photos by Pierre Gillard/Passion Aviation unless noted Passengers waiting for the whisper of airline tires touching tarmac at Montreal-Pierre Elliott Trudeau International sometimes glimpse another series of runways as they turn final. Few realize that six buildings across the fast-flowing, freighter-packed St. Lawrence River host an assortment of fixed- and rotary-wing aircraft that belong to…
As the four-blade aluminum propellers of the Beechcraft King Air 350 spun to a stop at Alaska’s Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport’s North Terminal, freight handlers stared at the aircraft’s civil lettering and red maple leaf roundels. When the cabin door opened, three men in military flight suits stepped from C-GSYC. As they unloaded training…