Pilot Partner is excited to announce our integration with FlightAware to automatically create flights in your Electronic Pilot Logbook. We will even grab a screenshot of the FlightAware tracking map and attach it to your Flight’s Image Gallery. Pilot Partner has consumed the FlightAware’s API to read the flights of those tail numbers that …
For those of us who have always dreamed of flying but never thought you could do it. A discovery flight is for you! To learn more about what to expect when learning to fly, read our other post: You too Can Learn to Fly
TRIP REPORT Austin, Tx >> Monterrey, Mex >> Laredo, Tx >> Austin, Tx June 3rd, 2016 By: Ranferi Denova / Piloto Aviador A few pilot and non-pilot friends asked me to write a trip report about our first international flight, so here it goes!
Mr. Robert B. Trull of Palacios, Texas, a 1936 graduate of The University of Texas at Austin Cockrell School of Engineering is the named owner of West Kerr private airstrip. Several of his charitable organizations include The Trull Foundation and the UT Robert B. Trull Chair in Engineering. Like others Trull was involved in Texas …
By now you are starting to get the drift that Texas Oil has created a fair number of private airports! Flat Top Ranch is no exeception. Owner Louis Beecherl was chairman and chief executive officer of Texas Oil and Gas Corp. in Dallas from 1957 to 1977 and appointed to the UT Board of …
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Scary name but it’s pronounced “Four Sixes” 6TE6 (BTW – I was once assigned 6666 for a transponder code…it was my first long cross country flight….thanks ATC!) The Four Sixes produces legendary Quarter Horses and Black Angus breeding stock. You can visit their Facebook page here. Founded by Captain Samuel “Burk” Burnett in 1868 …
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The Eagle Ford Shale geological formation in south Texas has been a boom to oil and gas producers in the area. Literally a “boom town” scenario for many of the small towns in the region. The Arrow S Ranch lies in the Eagle Ford area and is owned by Daniel Harrsion. Harrison in …
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Owned by Dallas energy entrepreneur Trevor D. Rees-Jones one interesting story tells of Jones’ 60th birthday party at the ranch with a guest list of 900 invitees! With 25+ private jets parked by the runway birthday entertainment was provided by the Blues Brothers and the Eagles. Cook Canyon ranch is one of the few private airstrips …
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Loyd Powell was owner of Devil’s Finger Oil & Gas. Powell was a classic oil man and Texas wildcatter and rose from rags to riches in the Texas Oil patch of yesteryear. Read more about him in this story in Texas Monthly.
In the mid 90’s the State of Texas took on Big Tobacco in a huge lawsuit. Billions of dollars were paid to the State……and needless to say attorney’s fees collected. Texas attorney F. Kenneth Bailey’s firm represented Texas in the lawsuit. Bailey owns and operates Fossil Creek Ranch complete with 5300 foot airstrip …
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