Air service from San Juan is limited because only small propeller-driven planes can negotiate the drop down a mountain pass to the only landing strip.

In the morning, we rode back to the airport and boarded two small propeller-driven planes for the flight to Lalibela.

The only way to get here is via Antigua in a tiny, propeller-driven plane.

Once a propeller-driven plane sounded to the south but faded out.

Cessna, once best known for its small, propeller-driven planes, now makes almost all its money from one jet, the Citation.

Older propeller-driven plane designed to take off and land on water.

Airline executives point out that more than 1,500 DC-3's built before 1946 are still flying; ironically, those propeller-driven planes meet stage 3 noise standards.

In 1993, a small propeller-driven plane piloted by Richard Leakey crashed, crushing his lower legs.

He said that about a dozen jets and a dozen propeller-driven planes in the south had been moved north.

No other propeller-driven plane could beat it in a straight-up vertical climb.