About Light Aircraft
A light aircraft is an aircraft that has a maximum gross takeoff weight of 12,500 lb or less. Light aircraft are used commercially for passenger and freight transport, sightseeing, photography, and other roles, as well as personal use.
Rugby World Cup: The quirky ways Wales fans are travelling to France
... The two have previous experience of flying to France in their Light Aircraft, including for the famous Le Mans motor race earlier this year...
Boats, planes and armoured train: How Kim Jong Un travels abroad
... In 2015, North Korean state media even carried footage of Kim Jong Un piloting a " homegrown" Light Aircraft and sitting at the controls of an AN-2 military biplane...
'Kudos' for pilot who landed plane safely on A40 near Cheltenham
...By Dawn LimbuBBC NewsWitnesses who saw a Light Aircraft make an emergency landing on a dual carriageway have congratulated the pilot for making a smooth landing...
Light aircraft makes emergency landing on A40 near Cheltenham
...By Emma Elgee, Chloe Harcombe and Steve KnibbsBBC News A Light Aircraft has made a forced landing on a main commuter road in Gloucestershire after a suspected engine failure...
Mapping the search for Colombia's plane crash children
... Where did the children go missing? The children were travelling together with their mother, 33-year-old Magdalena Mucutuy, in a Cessna 206 Light Aircraft from their home near Araracuara, in the south of Colombia, to San José del Guaviare,...
Porthcawl: Aircraft crashes into sea off south Wales coast
... HM Coastguard was called out on Tuesday morning after reports of a Light Aircraft going into the sea at Porthcawl, Bridgend...
Colombia plane crash: Children reportedly survived 16 days in jungle
... The Cessna 206 Light Aircraft they had been in was flying from Araracuara, deep in the Amazon jungle in southern Colombia, to San José del Guaviare, when it disappeared in the morning of 1 May...
Pilot thought co-pilot who died in cockpit was joking - report
... The 57-year-old, who had passed a medical four months earlier, had agreed to join the the short journey aboard a G-BORL Light Aircraft around Blackpool Airport in June...