
Advertise on podcast: Hangar49
Rating
4.9from
This podcast has
50 episodes
Language
EnglishPublisher
Hangar49Explicit
No
Date created
2010/02/19
Latest episode
2025/12/24
Average duration
79 min.
Release period
56 days
Description
Jim Leighty, Al Gilson, and Tony Roberts talk about different airstrips to visit, the ups and downs of flying in the Pacific Northwest, and all the fun events you can find here! We also like to discuss aviation music, movies, books, and websites. Basically we are just a bunch of fun loving pilots that have a passion for aviation just like you!
Unlock Hangar49 podcast Email contact info,
Listeners & Audience details
Email contact information
Direct podcast contact details

Listeners
Audience numbers & engagement insights

Audience details
Podcast Insights

Podcast episodes
Check latest episodes from Hangar49 podcast
Have a Happy 2026
2025/12/24
It's been a busy 2025. We've been so busy, we forgot to put out many episodes. We will try harder in 2026-especially since we will be celebrating our 16th anniversary.
Now....on with the show:
Movie: The Flying Fool (Full movie-1929)
Book: Sagittarius Rising by Cecil Lewis
Interview: Rachel Yang/How much does it cost to fly private
Destination: Sullenberger Aviation Museum/Charlotte, NC
Song: Vera Lynn/Coming in on a Wing and a Prayer
Website: Hangar 49
Comedy: Southeast Air/Matt Mitchell
We have been on High-ATIS
2025/08/16
OK...we've been away. But....did you miss us? (Don't answer that!) Our last show was our 15th anniversary show in February 2025. We've been busy. Now we are back! We have the usual stuff, plus we are stepping right along so you don't get bored, or run out of fuel.
Movie : Horizon Line (2020)
Book - Girls of Flight City
Interview – Gonky
Destination: National Championship Air Races, Roswell, New Mexico
Song: Elton John/Take Me to the Pilot
Comedy - Benny Hill - Flying South for the Summer
It's Our 15th Anniversary Show
2025/03/02
It's the 15th anniversary of Hangar 49! Join us as our hosts look back over the last 15 years. And then proceed to babble about the usual aviation drivel. Fasten your seat belts, please put your tray table up, sit back, and enjoy the flight.
Movie/TV Series: Flight Risk
Book: Fire Eaters by Peter Pigot
Interview: Erika Armstrong/Advanced Aircrew Academy
Website: Think Aviation
Song: Lightnin' Hopkins/Airplane Blues
Destination/Places to Fly To: Campbell River Wings and Wheels
Comedy/Sound: Fighter Pilots/Saturday Night Live
That a Wrap on Season 15!
2025/01/25
That's a wrap on another season of Hangar 49! Yep, Hangar 49 has been your go-to aviation podcast for a long time. Our next show will be our 15th anniversary and the beginning of season 16. From our humble beginnings in February 2010 our show has opened the door to aviation news, movies, books, and music. Plus, great banter by a trio of reasonably OK pilots.
Movie/TV Series: Cabin Pressure (2002)
Book: Greatest Flying Stories Ever Told by Lamar Underwood
Interview: Norman "DQ" DeQuier/Aviation Performance Solutions
Website: Fly *MA Free Online Pilot Courses
Song: Ward Wellman and the Kents/Written in the Sky (1965)
Destination/Places to Fly To: New Mexico Museum of Space History-Alamagordo NM
Comedy/Sound: Carl Faulkenberry/Airlines just keep getting cheaper
It's been an eternity since our last show!
2024/12/14
We haven't done a show since October and it seems like an eternity. But, we couldn't miss our Christmas show!
Special Christmas Song: Royal Guardsmen/Snoopy's Christmas
NORAD Santa Tracking
Movie/TV Series: Back From Eternity (1956)
Book: Final Authority by Robert Dobransky
Interview: Carroll Leboeuf/Cirrus Aircraft
Website: Live Space Station Tracking Map
Song: Guess Who/Flying on the Ground Is Wrong
Destination/Places to Fly To: Titan Missile Museum-Green Valley AZ
Comedy/Sound: K-Von/Air Travel Isn't What It Used to Be
Well Worth The Wait!
2024/10/09
Of course, we think this show is well worth the wait. So what if it's our September show and some of the news is over a month old. When we called our new production vendor, (yes, our production staff was re-arrested when they violated their parole), we heard the same old tired stories: Supply chain issues, product shortages, tariffs on critical components, moon phases, sunspots, artificial intelligence, and yada, yada, yada. Anyway, sit down, strap in, put on your helmet. And hold on!
Movie/TV Series: Come Fly With Me (1963)
Book: Pilot Joke Book by Chester Crocker
Interview: Lt. Col Rob "Waldo" Waldman-How to overcome any fear
Website: Soaring-Chess in the Air/Clemens Ceipek
Song: Tail Dragger/Howlin' Wolf
Destination/Places to Fly To: The 99's Museum of Women Pilots, Oklahoma City, OK
Comedy/Sound: Fast Forward-Flight Attendants
Marooned and Lost In Space
2024/08/28
Imagine you booked a flight on an airline for a two-week vacation to an exotic location. In fact, a location so exotic, it's out of this world. Once you got there, the airline called and said they have cancelled your flight and the next flight on the only other airline doesn't have any open seats until next year. No, it's not the twilight zone….you are Marooned and Lost In Space courtesy of the Boeing Starliner! This, other news, movie, book, comedy, interviews and more in this episode. Plus, listen all the way to the end for a very special announcement!
Movie/TV Series: Fly Away Home
Book: Famous First Flights by Lowell Thomas, Owen Garriot,
Interview: Captain Joe-How Pilot Checklists increase your productivity
Website: Airport Courtesy Cars
Song: John Hartford/Steam-Powered Aeroplane
Destination/Places to Fly To: Museum of Flying, Santa Monica, CA
Comedy/Sound: Tony Hancock-Test Pilot
Preventing An International Incident!
2024/07/26
The multi-national team at Hangar 49 is ready, at a moment's notice, to respond to any kind of emergency, including an "international incident." We even brought in an expert to discuss very this important issue. That, and more, on this episode of Hangar 49!
Movie/TV Series: The Blue Angels (2024)
Book: Ghosts of Honolulu by Mark Harmon & Leon Carroll
Interview: Why your daughter should learn to fly/Leah Ochs
Website: Airport Camping Guide
Song: Silver Wings/Merle Haggard
Destination/Places to Fly To: Titan Missile Museum/Tucson AZ
Comedy/Sound: Preventing an International Incident/Jose Sarduy
Aliens Have Taken Over This show!
2024/06/13
Apparently, the production staff has been abducted and two of the three hosts know way to much about aliens. Who are Tony and Jim? And where are they really from? These questions and more on this episode of Hangar 49.
Movie/TV Series: The Flight Machine (1930)
Book: Windward-Flying cargo out of Miami's corrosion corner in the 80's. by Scott McDonald
Interview: Bush Pilot-A path less chosen – Bryan Curtis
Website: Fold 'N Fly-Paper airplane folding instructions
Song: John Denver/The Wings That Fly Us Home
Destination/Places to Fly To: National Air Races, Roswell, NM
Comedy/Sound: Jack Whitehall/The Troubles with Flying
We Are Masters of the Air...Er...Podcasting
2024/05/19
We're on our 15th season of this show and we've mastered a thing or two in nearly 170 episodes. We can find great movies, songs, and books. We can make fun of each other. And maybe even talk about aviation...if we have extra time. Each show is full of surprises-like this: Which show co-host and his band opened for the Rolling Stones in the 1960's? Listen to this action-packed episode to find out.
Movie/TV Series: Masters of the Air (2024)
Book: The Thinking Pilot's Flight Manual by Rick Durden
Interview: Sully Sullenberger-Minute by Minute Description of the Miracle on the Hudson
Website: Celebrity Private Jet Tracker
Song: Air Travel/Ray and Bob (1962)
Destination/Places to Fly To: Delta Flight Museum, Atlanta, GA
Comedy/Sound: Michael McIntyre-Best Jokes about Planes and Airports
So Many Airshows-So Little Time!
2024/03/24
In this show, we run down airshows in the Pacific Northwest and ponder how we will attend all of them. Plus, the usual breaking news, breaking movie, breaking music, breaking interview, and broken comedy. Oh, and it's the 88th anniversay for the Spitfire. All that and more on this episode of Hangar 49.
Movie: Flight (1929)
Book: Spitfire-A Very British Love Story
Interview: Andrew Shepard-Aviation's Next Great Adventure
Website: Density Altitude Calculator
Song: Angus & Julia Stone/Big Jet Plane
Destination/Places to Fly To: Spitfire & Hurricane Memorial Museum
Comedy/Sound: Armstrong & Miller-Best of the RAF Pilots
A Giant Leap For Aviation Podcasting
2024/03/01
We are leaping into the 15th season of Hangar 49! And…we're doing it on Leap Day….February 29th! Please enjoy our usual drivel as we fly into a whole new season. Thanks for listening.
Movie: Airplane II (1982)
Book: Final Authority by Robert & Joseph Dobransky
Interview: A Plane You Can Drive-Anna Dietrich
Website: The Points Guy
Song: I'm Like A Bird/Nelly Furtado
Destination/Places to Fly To: Cape Canaveral Space Force Museum
Comedy/Sound: Typical Pilot Interview/Studio C
We've Gone Full Circle
2024/01/20
Hangar 49 has gone full circle. That's a wrap for our 14th season and our 165th show. So, business is business and our corporate bigwigs for the huge media conglomerate that owns the show has put their foot down. Yep, this show contains a commercial break, just before the news segment. Stay tuned after that for the top aviation news of the day, movie, music, interviews, and more. All in this great show.
Movie: The Hindenburg (1975)
Book: Aircraft-The Definitive Visual History by DK Smithsonian
Interview: Jeanie Brady-Practicing Kindness at 30,000 Feet
Website: FAA Flight Delay Information
Song: Joni Mitchell/Amelia
Destination/Places to Fly To: Airports in low places-Death Valley
Comedy/Sound: Nathan McIntosh-Pilots Should be Richer Than Rap Stars
One of our elves is missing!
2023/12/16
Welcome to the Hangar 49 Christmas special episode! It's a special, and busy, time of year. Santa's workshop, and the H49 studios have a lot going on. Just like Santa's place, the H49 elves are busy. So, when one elf doesn't show up for work, it makes it tough. Somehow, with only two of us, we managed to get the show on the roof…er…runway.
Special Christmas Movie Feature: The Shepherd (2023)
Special Christmas Video Feature: The Star Wars Holiday Special
Special Christmas Musical Feature: Royal Guardsmen/Snoopy's Christmas
Special Christmas Destination /Places to Fly To: The North Pole
Special Christmas Gift Ideas for your Pilot website: The Hangar 49 book list
Book: Sky Kings-Flying Adventures with John & Martha
Interview: Dan Boedigheimer-Advanced Aircrew Academy
Song: Drew Holcomb & the Neighbors/Fly
Comedy/Sound: Two for One-- Sabastian Maniscalo & John Crist
Just park your flying saucer next to the Gulfsrteam, sir.
2023/11/10
So, the Reno air races might be moving south…to the Las Vegas Spaceport! Are space aliens invited to participate? Will there be a new flying saucer class? Yep, you heard it (and many other things) here first on this new episode of Hangar 49.
Movie: Birdy (1984)
Book: Lost in Shangri La by Mitchell Zuckoff
Interview: Samantha Thresher-Corporate Angel Network
Website: Aviation Fanatic
Song: Blue Oyster Cult/ME 262
Destination/Places to Fly To: Nimmo Bay Resort, Nimmo Islet, BC
Comedy/Sound: James Gregory-Drunk Pilots and More
Podcast reviews
Read Hangar49 podcast reviews
PilotAl 2021/03/02
Hangar 49
After 10 years, this show continues to be fresh. It's a somewhat irreverent look at the world of aviation, from a couple of pilots who have been ther...
Bushcaddy 2014/10/03
Local flavor still golden
Keep up the show I look forward to it almost each week. I listen to it on the way to work and it makes my drive so much easer.
Bushcaddy
AviatorDave 2012/04/28
nothing beats friends talking about flying!
I just discovered Hangar49, and have been enjoying catching up.
Thanks to the team (Al, Jim, and Tony - alphabetical order :-) ) that has been gettin...
Dakota Hawk 2012/03/17
Top notch entertainment!
Al, Jim, and Tony do a great job of weaving stories, music, movies, and sound clips around a theme of aviation. Always entertaining, sometimes inform...
OnsenHunter 2011/05/25
Great local info.
Ahhhhhh, to be home again! I am stuck down here in California, but am from Washington and I miss flying at in my home state and the PNW in general!
...
Scofreyjet 2012/01/03
Recently discovered gem
Well produced general aviation podcast with emphasis on the Northwestern US. Presentation is loose enough to be relaxed, but with some regular featur...
NotaNaziMike 2010/06/14
If you Fly, you'll love it - if you live in the Northwest you'll love it even more
This is a great podcast covering flying in the northwest, general aviation, the joy of flying and banter that any pilot or aspiring pilot will love. S...
Podcast sponsorship advertising
Start advertising on Hangar49 relevant audience podcasts
You may also like to advertise on these Podcasts

4.563721455
Alison Rosen Is Your New Best Friend
Alison Rosen

4.813802000
Daily Tech News Show
Tom Merritt

4.82585500
God Awful Movies
Puzzle in a Thunderstorm, LLC

4.7322372
This Is So Awkward
Peoples Media, This Is So Awkward

4.41892000
Kim Komando Daily Tech Update
Kim Komando

4.6313657
Poured Over
Barnes & Noble

4.4218842
Intelligent Medicine
Dr. Ronald Hoffman

4.2378367
Trump's Terms
NPR

4.9481934
Garage Gym Athlete
Jerred Moon

4.855100
Agent Provocateur with Allan Walsh and Adam Wylde
sdpn