Bush pilots operate in remote areas worldwide with little operational support. Career success and survival require excellent backcountry flying skills, self-reliance and resourcefulness, and above all ...

Alaskan bush pilots are responsible for things like ferrying supplies to remote villages and backcountry tourism. Insider spoke to two bush pilots, Chad Smith and Hailey Zirkle, who currently fly to ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Aviator: Bush Pilot Get ready to pack your gear and fly off into the wilderness of the endless plains! As the busy operator of a hangar and runway in the ...

Jun. 17—Jim Tweto — a Unalakleet bush pilot and rural aviation figure known by many for his starring role on the Discovery Channel series "Flying Wild Alaska" — died Friday in a Western Alaska plane ...

A famed bush pilot and former star of a Discovery Channel series documenting his uncharted flights into the Alaska wilderness died in a plane crash Friday, along with his passenger, according to state ...

Join bush pilot Matt Dearden as he navigates some of the most extreme airstrips in Papua, Indonesia. This region features ...

Travel into the world of the Alaskan Bush Pilot, a world of challenge and danger, not to mention some of the most awe-inspiring sights in the world. There are few runways here, so pilots take off and ...

Jul. 12—A famed Alaska bush pilot's plane struck a tree while departing a remote ridgeline airstrip last month near Shaktoolik and then crashed onto the tundra, killing both people onboard, a National ...

Veteran bush pilot Bob Stanford risks everything to save hunters struggling to stay alive in a remote area of Kodiak. Island Air drops off a group of desperate hunters in the heart of the bush as a ...

Jim Tweto, the bush pilot featured in Discovery Channel’s 2011-2012 series Flying Wild Alaska, died in a small plane crash Friday near the coastal village of Shaktoolik, Alaska. He was 68. Also killed ...

ALBANY — Ron Benshoof was still in Oregon Health & Science University Hospital earlier this week — itching to check out and get home to Albany. Benshoof, a founding member of the mid-valley band the ...