Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, Holiday Shopping, Gift Certificates.
The beginning of the holiday shopping season, small business saturday the day afterwards, and our passion of the giving of gift certicates are some of the many rituals of our gift giving shopping season.   Freeflight Aviation is a small business, our passion is flight, and we offer gift certificates for the Holiday Season.

Discovery Flight Packages

Looking for that Special Pilot Gift?
Flying Magazine has a few suggestions.  If fact, we would be happy to receive of few of their suggested gifts.  Leaving Terra Firma also has a great list of gifts for the pilot.  We can offer Flight Training Materials, Headsets, T-shirts, Aircraft Checklists, Headset Bags, Fuel Testers, and more.

Harrison Ford Flight Training Scholarship Available
As chairman of EAA’s Young Eagles program for five years (2004-2009), Harrison Ford made a wonderful contribution to the general aviation community. Angela and Jim Thompson created a scholarship honoring his enduring legacy on behalf of youth and general aviation. This $7,500 scholarship helps young people achieve their dreams of flight and is available to Young Eagles who are enrolled in the Sporty’s Learn to Fly Course offered as part of the Young Eagles Flight Plan. Application deadline is December 31, 2013. Apply today!

Holidays usher in that time of the year when leisure replaces work as a priority.
You are filled with a joyous exuberance to explore, travel and learn. So indulge in laziness. Spend time with your loved ones and let your heart dance.   There will be music by “The Class Action Band”.  Great food, planned by the famous airport manager, Mindy and her gang.  So come join us for some fun, family, and  camaraderie December 14th starting at 7 PM for our Annual Holiday Party at the Flying W Airport.  Please call 609-267-7673 for tickets.

Holiday Party at N14

Freeflight Aviation Flight School Members Maintenance Seminar. 

Everything you ever wanted to know about Aircraft for winter flying and more.  Plus Hotdogs on the Grill. Sunday October 27^th at 1 PM!

An Aircraft Seminar at the Freeflight Maintenance Hanger

by A & P, IA Mechanic – Frank Hicinbothem

A new engine installation!

Discussion will include such items as the aspects of preheating aircraft for this coming winter weather. Why and how to pre-flight for safe operations. Frank will show you where all the magic happens and how. How to avoid a $30,000 dollar carburetor engine fire, and more.

Please bring your bag of questions.  We will all learn something!  All flight instructor are invited to come, contribute, and share their knowledge, concerns, and experiences.

Starting October 4th

Freeflight Aviation will start a Private Pilot Ground School, taught by our flight instructor, Shannon Wea. 
This course will run for nine weeks, on Friday evenings, from 6 PM to 9:30 PM.
This Class is for anyone thinking about getting their Private Pilot License, working on their license, or just needing a review!

Cost for the nine Friday Classes is only $225.00.

A Private Pilot Training Kit is recommended for the PPL Ground School.
Freeflight Aviation is offering a $20.00 discount on the Jeppesen Flight Training Kit for any one taking Shannon’s class until November 1^st.  If interested, please call or send us an email.

So Let’s Go Flying!

In our Diamond DA20  or our Cessna C172, or check out list of Aircraft !

Our Flight Instructor Gene with his students. 

Mid-Atlantic Aviation Coalition Announces
2014 Annual Meeting and Spot Landing Contest.

The 2014 annual meeting of the Mid-Atlantic Aviation Coalition will be held on Saturday, September 21, at Solberg Airport (N51).  The event will be held concurrently with a Spot Landing Contest presented by Aviation Explorer Post 107, based at Somerset Airport.

Both events will begin at 2:00 p.m. Please bring chairs for you and your guests.
A donation of $10.00 is requested to cover expenses.

FREEFLIGHT AVIATION has joined with Dominion Aircraft to begin development as a Diamond Flight Center.  Diamond Aircraft is a global organization committed to delivering 21st century aircraft that pilots want.  Diamond has built a network of Diamond Flight Centers (DFC) across North American that are an exclusive group of schools committed to providing high quality flight training using Diamond aircraft and Diamond specific training to ensure you training experience will be the best in the industry. 

More Possiblities from Diamond Aircraft 

DiamondShare™ Share & Save program, you can dramatically reduce your total cost of ownership while enhancing your overall aircraft ownership experience.  Visit DiamondShare to learn more about their program today.

This program is unique to any other program and helps leaseback owners justify ownership of a new Diamond DA20 or DA40 as a leaseback aircraft to a flight school of their choice. Visit DiamondLeaseBack for additional information.

DiamondShare

A Light Breakfast with the US Air Force

JESSICA L. KOSISKY, SSgt, USAF the 314 RCS Line Officer Recruiter invites you to a 9:30 am light breakfast with Freeflight Aviation on Thursday, August 29th. 

Subject of the Breakfast Discussion: USAF 2014 Flight Training & Rated Officer Opportunities (Ages 18-28)
The United States Air Force is currently seeking motivated 2013 & 2014 graduates for this year’s rated officer selection board. The career opportunities available via this selection board include: 

1. Pilot
2. Combat Systems Officer
3. Air Battle Manager
4. Remotely Piloted Aircraft Pilot
Please visit our Eventbrite link to register.

Oshkosh!

The World’s Greatest Aviation Celebration, 2013 AirVenture has passed.  Many memories of this year’s airshow will remain in all those attending.  If you missed any part of 2013 AirVenture, there are many great videos on Youtube and on the AirVenture 2013 Channel.

One of the many videos to watch on Youtube.

The EAA Eagle Flight Program

An Introductory flight experiences for adults, similiar to the Young Eagle Program, except for adults.   Freeflight would like to suggest EAA members take any adult interested in a flight, for an airplane ride.  We have a few Eagle Flight Registration forms to register your passenger for their Eagle Flight.  We would like to suggest you and your passenger become members in our local EAA Chapter, #1348.  The EAA Local Chapters are part of the EAA’s great organization.  These local chapters with their knowledge and experience are a great mentoring program for you and your passenger.  Our local EAA Chapter 1348, meets at the South Jersey Regional Airport the last Monday of every month.  So, we would like to see our flight school members become Eagle Flight Volunteers.  Let’s make a commitment to help grow aviation.  Become a member of EAA and share your passion of aviation.  See the Guide Lines for becoming an Eagle Flight Participant.

Eagle Flights

The New Philadephia Class B Airspace is in effect.

New Charts are available at the Flying W Airport (N14) and South Jersey Regional Airport (VAY).

Review of Class B Airspace

Freeflight New Private Pilot Licenses!

Steve student, Katie in the C152

Tony student, Adam in the Diamond DA20

Ott student, Justin in the Piper Warrior

Gene student, Ron in the C172 

Solos

Tony student, Brandon in the Diamond DA20

Tony student, Chris in the C172

Late Summer Rental Special

Get checked out in our Piper PA-28R-200 Arrow, 200 hours required for the check and a Non Owner’s $25,000 hull policy for this retractable aircraft required per the owners request.  Avemco offers a $25,000 aircraft hull policy. 

Great summer pricing now available: $140.00 per hour. $135.00 for a 10 Block, $132.00 for a 20 hour block.

Visit our home airport, The Flying W Airport and Resort, for their latest events.  From Open Mic Night, Concerts, Motor Cycle Rallys, Personal Parties, they offer a little bit of everything to our local Medford NJ area.

We have added a new aircraft to our NJ Fleet. 

A 1969 piper PA-28R-200 Arrow.  A great complex trainer. 

If you have 200 hours PIC, you can get checked out in our Piper Arrow.  For additional requirements see our Aircraft – Piper Arrow Page.

Get your complex rating, give us a call today!

Check our PA-28R-200 link above for our NJ Summer special.

Thunder.. 

“Thunder over the Boardwalk” coming to Atlantic City Wednesday, June 26. 

Join Freefight Aviation our our Annual Treck to this Airshow.

We like to take the train into AC instead of driving.  If you are interested in joining us for the day, please visit our “Meetup Group” event page. 

2012 Thunder Over the Broadwalk

A Great Story

William Lorton’s Spitfire 944.

A true-life story, Lorton has discovered rare 16mm footage of a 1944 spitfire crash and tracks down the pilot, now an 83-year-old World War II veteran to show him the footage.

Saturday May 18, 2013  

10:00 AM – 4:00 PM

Learn to Fly Day and Open House at the Flying W Airport – N14

Medford, NJ

REGISTER NOW!

Learn More About Flying Today!

“When April steps aside for May,
Like diamonds all the rain-drops glisten;
Fresh violets open every day:
To some new bird each hour we listen.”
-  Lucy Larcom

He who would learn to fly one day 
must first learn to stand and walk
and run and climb and dance;
one cannot fly into flying.
-Friedrich Nietzsche

Sign Up HERE

for OUR May 18th “Learn to Fly Day and Flying W Airport Open House”

or read more about our event below.

This time of year is filled with ancient rituals.

Rituals that ensure the survival of the natural world including the building of Bird Nests. 

Being of like mind, spring renews the passion of flight and brings a draw to the outside world, the airport.  We the human flyer and our little feathered friend feel the spring urge to come to the airport.  We bring our urge to fly and build a seasonal home as the year springs forth.  Ours, in the aircraft we decide to fly.  For our feathered friends, a place to call home and raise a family.  

Unfortantely, we both cannot call the aircraft our home. 

Hence, we, the human, must preflight the aircraft with great care to prevent our feathered friends from making our their home, our aircraft.   

Ahh, the saga of the “nesting birds“ !  Hopefully we will have no Angry Birds  at the airport.

Ancient Myths and Legends of Flight

According to this article,  man-kind history was a dream to soar through the sky like a bird.  When April steps aside for May, May has become the seasonal month in the aviation community to believe in the impossible dream of taking flight. 

In a cooperative effort set in motion by the Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) of pilots, companies, governments, and organizations in countries around the world to raise interest in flying and encourage current pilots to get others involved in aviation, created International Learn to Fly Day.

International Learn to Fly Day is celebrated yearly on the third Saturday of May.  

Learn to Fly Day and Open House at the Flying W Airport

Please join us for our Learn to Fly Day and Open House at the Flying W Airport, May 18th from 10 AM to 4 PM.  Please visit our “Event Link” to Register for our our Learn to Fly Day and Open House at the Flying W Airport Event. 

This is your chance to learn more about your local airport.  We invite you to ask questions about our airport, our aircraft, our flight school, learning to fly an aircraft or a helicopter.  This is your day to learn more about us, our passion, our community.

Come early and join our aviation community for breakfast at the Runway Café.  Come later and enjoy lunch.  The Café has a great view of the taxiway and runway, and is open from 8 AM to 4 PM.

Freeflight Aviation will display some of our favorite aircraft.  Our feature aircraft for this event will be our Diamond DA20 and Diamond DA40 Aircraft.  Freeflight offers flight training in a Diamond DA20 and DA40.  Through one of our flight school members, we offer a flight time share program in a G1000 Diamond DA40.

And, best of all, one of our previous flight school members purchased a DA40, for flight enjoyment.  It’s an aircraft his family enjoys, and is often used to take family vacations.

Our local Diamond Distributer may provide us with additional Aircraft for display, and explain some of the Diamond Aircraft programs for leasing back an aircraft with a flight school, and the Diamond Share Program.

The Diamond Aircraft are known for their safety record and their modern glass panel of avonics.  Additional information on these systems can be found on the Diamond Aircraft and GlassPilot websites.

Our local EAA Chapter, 1348, will offer Young Eagle Flights to young adults, ages 8-17.  These flights are offered on a first come bases, so, please come early, if you are interested in a flight around the patch (our beautiful airport). 

We encourage young adults interested in a career path with aviation to visit the Young Eagle website and take the Sporty’s Online Fly Course.  If this course is completed, the young adult will be sent a certificate for a first flight lesson at any participating flight school, including Freeflight Aviation.

Freeflight would like to offer you the chance to take a 1/2 hour or 1 hour Discovery Flight.  When you Register for our International Learn to Fly Day Event at the Flying W Airport, you can purchase one of these flights. 

You can also purchase our Discovery Flight Package, and use it for another day.  It’s up to you.

A $99.00 Coupon for a 1/2 hour Discovery Flight Package is available on our Freeflight Meetup Group Event Page.

We hope to see you May 18th.   

Please come for a visit and enjoy the day at the Flying W Airport! 

YOU ARE ALWAYS WELCOME TO VISIT WITH US AND OUR LOCAL AIRPORT ANYTIME.

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It has returned, at least according to the calendar.

 
Calm winds brought an early Spring Season to Freeflight. On Saturday March 9, our Women of Aviation Week Fly It Forward event flowed smoothly just like a light breeze over the runway. Freeflight pilots eagerly awaited as early morning came, with their aircraft lined up along the taxiway wooden fence line outside of flight operations area.

Jan, Tyler, and Bryan provided flights to 12 excited women, in three of our cherished aircraft, the Diamond DA40, the Cessna 172, and the Piper Archer. These women passengers, upon returning from their flight, were full of smiles and a grand experience to be shared with their friends and families.

Marla and Tyler

Sandy, Jan, Charlene

Nancy and Jan

Freeflight’s next event especially for the public will be held in May.  If you want to learn more about aviation, airports, flying small airplanes, please join us for Aviation’s “International Learn to Fly Day.”   Our event is presently listed on our Freeflight Aviation and the Neighborhood Meetup Group, but will be updated as May approaches.

Spring may roar like a lion, but we, like the lamb, will calmly and slowly be adding additional aircraft to our fleet during this season.

Our refurbished piper warrior, a PA28 – 151 (now 161) has appeared on the ramp.  It’s newly painted surfaces, completed by Leading Edge Aircraft Maintenance – Freeflight’s maintenance shop, are just breath taking.  The interior, new, and the rebuilt engine is a package worth viewing.  Please, renters, treat our beautiful baby with much care.

Photos taken by Dave Bourne - of Daisy Photography

Long in the making, a complex will soon be added to our fleet, the piper archer, PA-28R-200. The aircraft is in our shop for an annual. Flight rules, flight instructor check-outs, check out in type sheets, must be completed, prior to this aircraft becoming available for rent.

This aircraft, a 200-hp (149-kW) version powered by a Lycoming IO-360-C1C was offered as an option beginning in 1969 and designated the PA-28R-200.

Our Freeflight Group has enjoyed another morning Breakfast at the Runway Café.

Our next Breakfast at the Runway Café is scheduled for April 20 – 9 AM. 

Breakfast the Runway Cafe

Minnie and Mickey had been traveling around the United States.  

Minnie has been more places then Mickey.  From N14 – The Flying W Airport – NJ, Al took Minnie to PHL – Northeast Philadelphia, PA and gave her a flight in the Channel 3 Helicopter.   Mickey, having spent most of the winter in the Singh family, recently departed from TER – Teterboro Airport – NJ on Thursday March 14^th and flew to PBI -West Palm Beach in N220GS, a Lear 35. 

Minnie and Mickey have been keeping in touch with us, and many of their pilots have been sending us updates and photographs of their travels.  Please see our facebook page for Minnie’s and Mickey’s adventures.

Happy Valentine’s Day!

Check out this love story…

When You Fall in Love with a Pilot from Katie.

A Video…Fly to your Heart

Freeflight’s “Let’s get to know each other Breakfast” at the Flying W Airport’s Runway Cafe. 

Come see the heart of our operation, our members,  the students, the pilots, the instructors, our airport community.  February’s breakfast is on the 16th starting at 9 AM.   We sure hope you can come visit us, talk aircraft, and meet some of our pilots and students.

January’s Breakfast at the Flying W Airport’s Runway Cafe

Ramp Check and other Aviation Legal Matters and EAA Chapter 1348 Monthly Meeting

Wayne Mauro, a NJ attorney, will present a seminar on Ramp Checks & other Aviation Legal Matters on Monday evening, February 25th @ 7pm at the Runway Cafe at Flying W Airport during the EAA NJ Chapter 1348 Monthly Meeting.   Organized by Freeflight Aviation and the local EAA Chapter 1348.

airplanes of love from Bartlomiej Otlowski on Vimeo.

A New Year!

In the pursuit of being awakened.

What makes you come alive?

Our Centering in the Universe is FLIGHT.

This is our Fun, our Friends, our Freedom, our PASSION!

So as the year comes to an end and a new beginning, we invite you to join our world.

Our operation is built on the premise that flying small airplanes is first and foremost FUN. 

As a Flight School and Social Club for the general aviator, we invite to start your flight training with us, to obtain your private pilot certificate.

Our goal is to share our experiences and provide an atmosphere of informative, fun, flight training.  

Aviation helps you grow as a person and changes your life .  

Friends and Family

The second week of December, we enjoyed lunch at our local Flying W Airport’s Runway Cafe.  Breakfast started around 9 AM and continued into lunch time.  People came and people went.  What a wonderful way to spend the upcoming holidays.

Breakfast at the Runway Cafe

Additional photographs can be found on our Facebook Page.

Upcoming Events

January 10:   FAA Safety Seminar at the Flying W Airport – “Can you talk the talk”?  Starting at 7 PM.

January 19:  Freeflight’s Breakfast at the Flying W Airport’s Runway Cafe and Seminar on Upset Recovery and Spin Training by Robert Mcguigan.  Enjoy the seminar, and you are invited to take additional training in Robert’s Aerobat C152.   Starts at 9 AM.

January 25, 26, 27:  AirPigz National Air And Space Museum MeetUp January 25-27, 2013 (Washington DC)  Freeflight’s meetup to drive or fly.  Our own group, or join up with Air Pigz.  It’s your choice.

Construction of a Light Aircraft.

A Piper Club