Philip Preston, who took his first flight in a 1946 Aeronca Champ at age 12, later became a successful entrepreneur, building a plastics company that enabled him to live at an airpark and pursue his ...

The author, an aviation journalist and flight instructor, fulfilled a lifelong dream of flying a 1946 Aeronca Champ, a plane her mother had flown in her youth. The author's flight with the Champ's ...