People are booking commercial flights faster than airlines know how to handle the volume of travelers. A good number of bookings are because so many traveling plans have been on hold for several months or even years. So, if you're looking to get away from commercial airlines and take your private aircraft on an adventure, you have a few options before blocking out your calendar. When it comes to convenience, amenities, and nice-to-haves, these are the top 10 [...]

Cessna Aircraft Clyde V. Cessna founded Cessna in 1916 after seeing an airshow near Oklahoma City in 1911. A mechanic and auto salesman, he assembled his aircraft using a kit from Queens Airplane Company in the Bronx. After several failed attempts, he eventually got the hang of flying and became a decent pilot. By 1916, he began using the Jones Motor Car factory in Wichita, Kansas, to start production for his aircraft. By 1917, Cessna had built the [...]

Beechcraft Aircraft The first aircraft built by Beechcraft in the 1930s wouldn't truly be the start of Walter Beech's career. In the 1920s, Beech first built a Travel Air aircraft that was a conventional round-engine, rag-and-tube taildragger – nothing like the tricycle landing gear planes that would take over the future of aviation. Officially formed in 1932, the Beech Aircraft Company was the idea of pioneer aviator Walter Beech, who had served as a pilot for the United [...]