His friends call him "Bart."  Bart performs in airshows, and has a specially designed engine and wings so he can fly upside-down!

Shirley is a very special cargo plane.  She was designed to carry lots of cargo to small airfields.  Shirley likes flying in the mountains and loves to read in her spare time. 

Sigmund is a very special helicopter.  He can lift really heavy things.  Sometimes he lifts logs, or huge buckets of water to put out forest fires.  A helicopter like Sigmund even lifted the statue on the top the Capitol Dome!

Everyone likes Carlos.  Carlos carries large, very heavy pieces of cargo.  Carlos has carried so many things, he says he can't remember all of them, but he says the harder the job, the more he likes it!  "You feel good when you have to try your hardest to get a job done!" says Carlos.

Sal is from texas and she lives on a ranch.  She is very fast and can fly over every inch of the ranch in no time.  "Time's too precious to waste," she always says. 

Bubba flys into and out of lakes and can carry cargo and people.  People in places like Alaska use planes like Bubba, much like people in the rest of the world use a mini-van!

Eduardo is from a South American country named Ecuador.  Eduardo helps musems explore for ancient civilizations.  Sometimes he helps explore the land so people can make new maps.