Ultralights are allowed to reach 14,000 feet in altitude, but can go higher with waivers. There are four major categories of ultralights: Hang glider trikes; fixed-wing, open cockpit planes; powered ...

Yuba County supervisors last week voted to allow ultralight planes to fly from the Yuba County Airport, ending what amounted to a yearslong ban of the recreational flying machines that prompted a ...

I AM RISING UP INTO A LAVENDER DAWN, the desert dropping beneath me as if in a dream. A thousand feet above the red earth near St. George, Utah, I throttle back, level off, and glide through the ...

There will be ultralights, GA aircraft, rotorcraft, float planes, homebuilt kit planes, restored warbirds and even a few built-from-scratch creations.