An article featuring the updates Jason Tuggle has completed on his 1975 Piper PA-34 Seneca II we featured in the May 2020 edition of Pipers.

I was hooked! My older brother took me on my first flight in a rented Mooney M20A when I was 18. The moment he let me handle the controls, I knew I wanted to fly.

Marc George declared his relationship with his 1969 Piper Cherokee 140 was “love at first sight.” I’d say it was also love at first flight.

Unlike many pilots, Mike Brown’s interest in flying didn’t begin at a young age with a fascination in flight.

Chance Downing decided he wanted to fly “the real thing” after attending his first RC aircraft fly-in.

On Harold Kennedy’s sixteenth birthday, his instruc­tor signed his student certificate and logbook and handed him the keys to go solo.

“At first I wasn’t sure about the PA-38-112. I thought it was a bit sketchy, and I had no plans to ever fly in one or even own one.

If you ask Bryan Rose what’s so special about the J-3 Cub, he would say, “It is the most iconic tail dragger on the planet.

Texas native Lew Donzis grew up surrounded by aviation role models. His family included a father, brother, and sev­eral other relations who were all pilots.

My 1977 PA-28R-201T Turbo Arrow III rates a medium on the testosterone scale and is eminently practical, at least as far as four-place, single-engine aircraft are con­cerned.

A love for skydiving grew into a love of aviation for Aaron Lewis. He’s also turned that love of aviation into a career.

Some of the best things in life come as a complete sur­prise. That’s what happened to Jeffrey Killion (who ev­eryone calls J.D.) and his fiancée Emma Graves