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This FAR Part covers general operating and flight rules for all civil aircraft in U.S. airspace — whether you're flying a Cessna or a Gulfstream.
What is Part 91?
This 1986 film launched Tom Cruise into superstardom and features the iconic line: “I feel the need… the need for speed.”
What is Top Gun?
In 2023, this pop icon made headlines after her legal team sent a cease-and-desist letter demanding that her private jet no longer be publicly tracked online.
Who is Taylor Swift?
This lightweight aircraft, built by two bicycle mechanics in 1903, became the first successful powered airplane in history.
What is the Wright Flyer?
This U.S. airport, a major Delta hub, retained its title in 2024 as the world’s busiest by total passenger traffic, serving over 108 million travelers.
What is Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL)?
If you're looking for the certification requirements for pilots, flight instructors, and ground instructors — you’ll find them in this Part.
What is Part 61?
In this 2002 Spielberg film, Leonardo DiCaprio plays real-life con artist Frank Abagnale Jr., who impersonates a Pan Am pilot.
What is Catch Me If You Can?
This American rock band shares a nickname for their fans with airline crew members who travel as off-duty passengers to reposition.
Who are the Grateful Dead?
This sleek commercial jetliner, jointly developed by the British and French, was retired in 2003 after decades of flying at Mach 2.
What is the Concorde?
This term describes the fear of flying.
What is aerophobia?
This FAR Part governs FAA-approved training centers that provide simulator-based instruction.
What is Part 142?
In this 1987 comedy, Steve Martin and John Candy endure a chaotic Thanksgiving travel journey involving just about every mode of transportation imaginable.
What is Planes, Trains, and Automobiles?
This country artist turned a canceled honeymoon into a solo party at 30,000 feet in his 2014 hit song.
Who is Dierks Bentley?
Built in secret by Lockheed’s Skunk Works, this jet still holds the record for fastest air-breathing manned aircraft ever flown.
What is the SR-71 Blackbird?
In this year Harriet Quimby was the first American woman to earn a pilot’s license.
What is 1911?
The FAA’s aviation regulations (FARs) are found in Title 14 of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFRs), how many total titles are included in the CFRs?
What is 50 Titles?
This 2004 Steven Spielberg movie follows a man stranded in JFK Airport due to a visa issue, based on a true story.
What is The Terminal?
This American rock band, formed in 1994, took its name from the term used by World War II pilots to describe unidentified flying objects.
Who are the Foo Fighters?
Owned by Howard Hughes and briefly the largest airplane ever built, this wooden behemoth only flew once in 1947.
What is the H-4 Hercules (Spruce Goose)?
This real-life astronaut made a cameo in The Simpsons, where Homer is launched into space with his floating potato chips.
Who is Buzz Aldrin?
Under Part 135, this section specifies the minimum flight time, duty period limitations, and rest requirements for flight crew members operating unaugmented operations with one or two pilots.
What is 135.267?
In this 1997 thriller, Nicolas Cage plays a wrongly convicted man trying to get home to his family aboard a hijacked prison transport plane.
What is Con Air?
This legendary musician, known for his work with Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, penned a song about a Vietnam War veteran who uses his piloting skills to fly low and fast, transporting special cargo.
Who is Stephen Stills?
This four-engine jet airliner, once a flagship for Qantas, became a personal aircraft for John Travolta — who painted it with the name “Jett Clipper Ella.”
What is the Boeing 707?
This airline has 31 characters in its name and is the longest running airline under it's original name.
What is KLM (Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij)?