Backcountry Aviation Radio

About Backcountry Aviation Radio

"There I was..." The best beginning to every aviation story. These stories occur "off-airport"...

Publisher

JB

Category

leisure

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

12 Jul 2025

Latest episode

16 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

40 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   16 Sept 2026

   Brett Baker Returns: Weight Loss, Avionics, and What's Next

   Season 4 closes out with a returning guest...Brett Baker of Cleared to Adventure was one of the very first people on this show, back in episodes 4 and 5, and this time we caught up in person on a gravel bar in Alaska. We flew in on the HawkWagon, caught some glacier views along the way, and recorded with actual gunfire in the background from neighbors sighting in rifles nearby. Hard to imagine a better way to close out a season. Brett opens up about something a lot of his viewers have asked a...

2. 

   9 Sept 2026

   Shane Madson from Mad Custom Cubs...Rotary Engine and Turbine Cubs?! Oh MY!

   Shane Madson runs Mad Custom Cubs out of Westlock, Alberta — and he builds airplanes the way he used to build Harleys, one weld and one custom touch at a time. Before he ever picked up an aircraft-grade torch, he spent years on Alberta drilling rigs and running gas plants, then became a motorcycle mechanic and competitive racer, before a chance conversation with a parts-shop regular convinced him airplanes were actually simpler than the choppers he was already building. We get into the story ...

3. 

   2 Sept 2026

   Fly Rocky Top with Jeff Smith and Matt Axley...your NEXT Backcountry Destination

   Jeff Smith and Matt Axley join the show to talk about Fly Rocky Top — a brand-new backcountry airstrip network in East Tennessee, and the flagship project of the Recreational Aviation Foundation's "Expanding the Map" initiative, announced at Oshkosh this past July. The network runs on a basecamp-and-outpost model. Rockwood Municipal Airport is the basecamp: a 5,000-foot paved runway paired with a brand-new 2,400-foot turf strip called Smuggler's Landing, a name with more local history behind ...

Reach and audience

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

17 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

13 ratings

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