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A huge congratulations goes out to Andy R. for completing his first solo! On February 21, 2020, Andy piloted N922CA from runway 34 at Portsmouth Internationa...

A huge congratulations goes out to Alex W. for completing his first solo flight! After a few practice laps in the pattern, CFI John Tiplady stepped out and s...

A big congratulations goes out to John L. for completing his first solo flight! On the morning of November 22, 2019, John and CFI Ed Robbins few N271VA over ...

Congratulations to Dan S. for passing his Private Pilot checkride! On Thursday, November 21, Dan flew N271VA up to Sanford Regional Airport (KSFM) to meet wi...

A huge congratulations goes out to Mitch T. for completing his first solo! On the evening of November 9th, Mitch completed his first three solo takeoffs and ...

Congratulations to Brendan M. on his first solo flight! After taxiing back from his morning lesson with CFI John Tiplady on November 9th, John hopped out of ...

This past September, CHI Aerospace attended a number of events and partnered with members of our community to help support our neighbors and share our love o...

A huge congratulations to Ryan H. for passing his checkride - CHI’s newest Private Pilot! On Sunday, September 15th, Ryan woke up bright and early for his ch...

Congratulations to Joe L. on his first solo flight! Joe completed his first three solo takeoffs and landings in N266VA on September 9th from runway 16 at Por...

Congratulations to Kyle E. for passing his Private Pilot checkride!! Kyle flew N271VA up to Sanford Regional Airport (KSFM) on the afternoon of September 9th...

A big congratulations goes out to Brett H. on his first solo flight! On September 5th, at the end of Brett’s lesson, CFI John Tiplady hopped out of the plane...

This past July, CHI got to fly in to Oshkosh for EAA AirVenture 2019! For those of you who aren’t familiar with AirVenture, here is a brief overview of the e...

We’ve added a new aircraft to our fleet - N1355F! We are very excited to add this larger 4 seat plane to our fleet! This 1980 Cessna 172N Skyhawk is a great ...

As we wrap up with our female pilot interviews, we want to thank ALL of our female student pilots for being a part of CHI Aerospace and helping inspire other...

1. When did you know you wanted to become a pilot? I knew I wanted to be a pilot when I was 17 and got to go on my first practice flight. I was looking into ...

Congratulations to Dan S. for passing his Private Pilot checkride! On July 5, 2019 Dan flew up to Sanford Regional Airport (KSFM) in N271VA for his afternoon...

Congratulations to Leon P. on completing his first solo flight! Leon completed his first three solo take-offs and landings from runway 34 at Portsmouth Inter...

A huge congratulations goes out to Mike O. on his first solo! On June 12th, Mike took off in N266VA and completed his first three solo bounces from runway 34...

As mentioned in last week's blog, females comprise only about seven percent of the total number of pilots in the U.S. Although this number is an increase fro...

A huge congratulations goes out to Joe P. for completing his first solo flight! On July 3rd, 2019, Joe completed his first three bounces from runway 16 at Po...