October 2026 Photo Contest Winner

There’s nothing like the Golden Hour to bring out the best in a pretty little airplane and Paul Lutz put it all together to submit the best photo in October. He wins a PLC Commuter flight bag from MyGoFlight. Congrats to Paul and keep those entries coming in for a chance to win valuable prizes from our sponsor MyGoFlight.

Paul Lutz, winner week 1 and October contest winner: Sun sets at Ashland, Ohio over my Cessna 150C.

Simon Westwood, winner week 2:

Spitfire PR XIX at Cosford 2009.

Larry Glass, winner week 3: #80, Skylor Piper in Miss Ruby S and #82, Allen Floyd in Havoc Air Racing battle it out at the recent SkyFiesta, Las Cruces – Air Races Airshow and Expo.

Craig Hollander, winner week 4:

Misty Central Valley sunrise.

November winner gets this PLC Elevate flight bag from MyGoFlight.

Nobody is without a good camera these days and we want to see what you can do with it when you’re around airplanes. Send us your most spectacular images and one might end up as our weekly winner and featured in the Friday newsletter. At the end of each month, the best of the weekly winners will earn the photographer some AvBrief swag. The best photo of the year will win some top-quality pilot gear courtesy of our sponsors. Just fill in the form below, attach your photo, and cross your fingers. There are no categories or limits except that aviation must be the central theme.

MyGoFlight is sponsoring the prize packages for monthly photo contest winners and the October winner will get a PLC Elevate flight bag from MyGoFlight. The mid-size flight bag is great for for pilots and students. Watch for the contest each week, and enter your best shots.

Photo Contest

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File upload(Required)Accepted file types: jpg, png, jpeg, Max. file size: 10 MB.

Photo caption(Required)

Official Rules & Terms

NO PURCHASE OR PAYMENT IS NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN. VOID WHERE PROHIBITED BY LAW.

Eligibility and Entry Windows

Who Can Enter: Open to global participants aged 18 or older, excluding employees of AvBrief Media Ltd., participating Prize Sponsors, and their immediate family members. Void in jurisdictions where prohibited by local law.

Weekly Schedule: Each weekly contest opens Saturday at 9am EST and closes on the following Thursday at 8:00 pm EST

Winner Announcements: Weekly Winners winners will be announced every Friday. The monthly winner will be announced on the Monday following the fourth week.

Administrator: AvBrief Media Ltd., 4758 Gulch Road, Armstrong BC V0E1B4, Canada

Prize Sponsors: Aviation products manufacturers and retailers. Prize Sponsors are strictly providing the awards and are not legally responsible for the administration, execution, or judging of this competition.

Photo, Caption, and Technical Specs

Technical Specs: Images must be in JPEG or PNG format and cannot exceed a file size of 10 MB.

Captions: Entrants must submit an original caption for their photo, strictly limited to a maximum of 300 characters.

Originality: The photo must be the original work of the entrant and must not violate any third-party copyrights or privacy rights.

Use of AI and Photo Editing Rules

No AI Allowed: AI-generated, AI-synthesized, or heavily AI-altered images are strictly forbidden. Submissions must be genuine photographs captured using a digital camera or smartphone.

Permitted Editing: Basic technical adjustments are permitted. These include standard cropping, color correction, exposure adjustment, sharpening, and contrast tuning.

Forbidden Editing: Composite images, adding or removing structural elements (e.g., adding an aircraft to a sky, changing a registration number), sky replacements, or using generative AI fill tools will result in disqualification.

Judging and Prize Structure

Judging Criteria: All eligible entries will be evaluated by the AvBrief editorial team based on the following objective criteria: 40% Technical Quality & Execution, 30% Adherence to the General Aviation Theme, and 30% Originality & Aesthetic Appeal.

Weekly Selection: The top five highest-scoring photos each week will be published on our online media platform. The single highest-scoring photo will be deemed the Weekly Winner.

Monthly Evaluation: The weekly winners from a given month will automatically advance to the Monthly Evaluation, where they will be evaluated by the judging panel using the same criteria to determine the Monthly Winner, who will receive a prize provided by one of our Prize Sponsors.

The Grand Annual Prize: All 52 weekly winners across the year will automatically enter the final annual evaluation to win the grand prize provided by our annual Prize Sponsor.

Tie-Breaker: In the event of a tied score at any stage of the competition, the entry with the highest score in the “Technical Quality & Execution” category will be deemed the winner.

Prizes & Taxes: The specific prizes prior to each applicable evaluation period. The ARV for monthly prizes will vary depending on the Prize Sponsor. Actual or appraised value may differ at the time of the prize award. Any applicable local, provincial, or federal taxes on prizes are the sole responsibility of the winner.

Copyright and Usage Rights

Ownership: Entrants retain full copyright ownership of their submitted photographs.

Publication License: By entering, the weekly finalists, weekly, monthly, and annual winners grant AvBrief Media Ltd. a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to publish their photos and captions in our daily online editorial and future digital or print publications.

Consent(Required) I agree to the Official Competition Rules & Terms and have read the Privacy Policy.

Certification(Required) I certify that this submission is my original work, captured by me using a digital camera or smartphone, and contains no generative AI elements or forbidden digital manipulation.

Enter!

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