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 ...

Flying an ultralight aircraft doesn’t require a pilot’s license, registration or — in Illinois, anyway — the use of a restricted landing area. Despite this liberal policy, flying is flying, and it’s ...

Businesses that offer ultralight flights for the adventure are sidestepping a Federal Aviation Administration rule that restricts two-passenger ultralights to flight training. But those businesses ...

GULF BREEZE — The 53-year-old man who died in the Aug. 27 crash of an ultralight aircraft in Santa Rosa Sound was a student pilot on his first solo flight, according to a preliminary accident report ...

If you stop by Peterborough Airport in Peterborough, Ont., on any given day, odds are you’ll see Cathy Montgomery — that is, if you look up. For more than two decades the pilot and flight instructor ...