AOPA Content Producer Writes Humorous Essay on Her Wish to Own an Airplane While Training for Her Pilot Certificate
Why It MattersThe piece shows how aircraft ownership remains an aspiration for new pilots still in training, with cost the main barrier before any choice of type.
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AOPA digital media content producer Janine Canillas, a student pilot, published a humorous first-person essay dated November 3, 2026, about wanting to own an airplane. She writes that the main obstacle is money.
Her ideal aircraft would be a de Havilland DHC-2 Beaver on floats for fishing trips, or alternatively a pumpkin-orange Cirrus SR22 with a vanity N-number. She considers the lottery, paid airplane giveaways with entry fees typically around $100, and the AOPA Sweepstakes Piper Archer, noting that as an AOPA employee she is ineligible to win it.
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