Background/Objectives: Recently, air-to-ground wireless communication systems have been used in various equipment such as unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). In this paper, we analyze the air-to-ground channel in 400 MHz band with experiment using light aircraft. Methods/Statistical analysis: The characteristics of the air-to-ground channel are analyzed as follows. We generate and store a pilot signal in commercial vector signal generator and an aircraft equipped with the signal generator takes off. As a pilot signal, Zadoff-Chu sequence is used for its good autocorrelation characteristics. In the ground station, the received waveform is stored by using spectrum analyzer. When an airplane approaches near the ground station, airplane transmits the pilot signal and the ground station begins to store the received signals. After completing the signal storing, air-to-ground channel analysis is performed. Findings: From the experiments, we obtained several hundreds of received waveforms, and those waveforms are used for statistical air-to-ground channel analysis. According to the analysis results, most of the measurement channels are single path or line of sight channels. However, in a certain measurement, multiple paths or non-line of sight channels are observed. Those results confirm that multipath environments exist at certain air-to-ground condition. The maximum number of multipath components is 4 and the maximum delay spread is 0.4 µ sec. Therefore, when designing a wireless communication system considering air-to-ground environments, the design should consider 4-path fading channels and maximum delay spread over 0.4 µsec. When designing air-to-ground wireless communication systems such as aircraft and drone systems, the experimental and analyzed channels in this paper might be useful. Improvements/Applications: In this paper, we analyze the air-to-ground channel characteristics of a mountainous area in Korea with field experiment using light aircraft. The analyzed channel characteristics are helpful to those who want to design wireless communication systems between aircraft to ground or UAV to ground. In addition, the analyzed channel can be used for verification of compatibility for the existing communication systems to air-to-ground applications.