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Here is my 16 year old daughter accomplishing her first solo flight. The airplane is a 1973 Piper Challenger with 180 horsepower. They stretched the fuselage on the Cherokee that year, and they called it a Challenger for 1973 before changing the name to "Archer" a year later. We say "Archer" on the radio since people think we're a corporate jet if we say "Challenger".

I get a lot of comments about Maddie not being alone in the airplane. At 1:12 in the video you can see the camera in the back seat. You can see it again at 11:52. The image stabilization feature on the camera makes it look like the camera is moving around. It is not. It's just the camera doing its best to figure out what to do with all the motion.

Also...there is a LOT of confusion between MADDIE doing this solo in 2016 and MAGGIE (who lost a wheel) doing her solo in 2018. These are two different people! Both did a great job.