2025 Aviation Week Photo Contest Editors’ Picks: General Aviation

A Beechcraft Model 18 sits on the ramp at Charleston Executive Airport on Johns Island in South Carolina.

Aircraft piloted by Skip Stewart, Melissa Burns and Team Redline fly in close formation as part of an aerobatic display.

A 1934 WACO S3HD biplane flies over the cornfields on approach to Aurora Municipal Airport in Illinois.

Thom Richard takes to the skies in John Baugh’s recently restored and award-winning FM-2 Wildcat at the Sun ’n Fun Aerospace Expo in Lakeland, Florida. This particular Wildcat honors the legacy of the U.S. Navy Composite Sqdn. 27’s highest-scoring ace, Lt. Ralph Elliot, showcasing the markings of the most successful FM-2 squadron.

Mikael Carlson flies his Bleriot monoplane during sunset at the Hahnweide Airshow in Germany.

Pilot Gordon Boettger flies his Schempp-Hirth Arcus J glider over the west shore of Lake Tahoe. Boettger continues to break glider distance and time records, and he aims to fly from Lake Tahoe to Texas someday.

Flames shoot from the afterburner of a Mikoyan MiG-17 during a performance at the Experimental Aircraft Association’s AirVenture 2025 in Oshkosh.

RJ Gritter paints the sky red, white and blue in his aerobatic Decathlon at the Sun ’n Fun Aerospace Expo 2025.

There is something poetic in a trio of old aircraft, zooming, arching and smoking together against warm cloudy skies.

Two Yakovlev Yak-50 aircraft from Lithuania’s Team ANBO perform an aerobatic display at sunset during an air show in Poland with pyrotechnics and fireworks providing a dramatic background.