Why fly solo when you can bring along a passenger? That’s probably what Bernard Pietenpol was thinking when he designed and built the Air Camper, a two-seat monoplane. Pietenpol lived a simple life in ...

The crossroads hamlet of Cherry Grove, Minn., would seem like an unlikely place to launch a revolution. That’s what happened, though, in the 1920s, when Bernard Pietenpol started building homemade ...

FARGO — A childhood dream took flight for one Fargo man, earning him a national award — flying among planes from across the country. But the journey took nearly two decades to find its wings. Dan ...

The Pietenpol Air Camper N13691, once owned by the late Allen Rudolf, is one of the best-loved airplanes of the Brodhead Pietenpol Association, a community of antique airplane enthusiasts flying out ...

Across the street from the general store in Cherry Grove in Fillmore County is a piece of history recognized throughout the aviation world. Bernard H. Pietenpol designed and built airplanes in his ...

One evening in the late ’60s, probably after a few “ginskies” in the Sky Galley bar, Ebby and Walter Rye decided to buy a curious little antique airplane I’d seen advertised in the yellow rag (Trade-A ...

JON C. LAKEY / SALISBURY POST Chuck Campbell, 94-year-old, is nearing completion of his 10 year build of a homemade wood and fabric Pietenpol Air Camper in his garage at his home in Salisbury. Friday, ...

A 60-year-old pilot was injured after his experimental amateur Pietenpol Air Camper plane crashed on take-off in Dauphin County Wednesday morning. Pennsylvania State Police said the Sacramento, ...