“(UND students) have the building blocks, where they may not need to spend time on certain items that someone without an aviation background may take longer to complete,” instructor says
Rodney Schaaf will be inducted into the state's Aviation Hall of Fame after a lengthy career and years of community service. He shares his story in an Exclusive with The Dickinson Press
Fighter aircraft assigned to the U.S. Northern Command took down the object, an American official said. The official said the territorial waters where the object went down are frozen.
Radar tracks put Michael Bratlie, an experienced military and commercial pilot, just past Two Harbors, Minnesota, in his two-engine plane. There the flight path ended, drawing exhaustive searches of Lake Superior and the thick woods and rugged terrain on shore.
BISMARCK — Obtaining a pilot’s license involves passing a series of exams and spending considerable time flying, which can add up to as much as $10,000.
Nearly every commercial airport in North Dakota has seen more passengers boarding planes in the past year than since the oil boom in 2014 and 2015. The industry is now preparing for the busy holiday season.
The crash site was initially identified as approximately three miles north of Aberdeen, but the NTSB report indicates the crash site was about seven miles north of town.
The airport began as a kind of air show featuring military assets as part of America’s buildup for World War II. Pierre’s airport, in fact, got its start because of World War II.
