You beat me to the punch by about 15 minutes Such a cool shot.

I believe Galen's Fly Idaho has a picture of a Staggerwing at Dewey Moore. Bob Hoff at Aero Mark has had his Staggerwing around the Idaho Back Country as well.

Awesome!

The first time I saw one up close I was staying on Lord Howe Island and this aircraft came in from New Zealand on its way to Oz, just a classically beautiful aircraft.

Resky wrote:I believe Galen's Fly Idaho has a picture of a Staggerwing at Dewey Moore. Bob Hoff at Aero Mark has had his Staggerwing around the Idaho Back Country as well.

Just don't post his pictures!!!!!

Bob Hoff's staggerwing has a pretty distinguished backcountry history. Used to belong to my grandfather who taught Bob to fly and Bob always remembered it. Fast forward many, many years and Bob tracked it down somewhere in CA. It had been groundlooped when Bob bought it and set about restoring it to it's present condition.

I met Bob at the ceremony to my grandfather's induction into the Idaho Aviation Hall of Fame. After all the hoopla, he came up and introduced himself to my mom and me and asked us to meet him at the Boise airport bright and early the next morning. Mom was crying like a baby when she saw that plane.....she'd flown it a bit herself back in the 60s when she got her private.

Bob took us for a nice flight that morning. Even showed us some of the old logs with the old man's entries in 'em. Really, really cool. He's a great steward of a great airplane. Thanks to Bob it's still flying!

One of the guys I work with would kill to get a ride in one of these. He's not a pilot but does work with us around airplanes every day. He has a staggerwing calendar in his office, a picture of one as his desktop background, and a model on his desk; but hasn't ever been near or seen one. If anyone knows of a staggerwing in the Denver area this guy would be tickled pink to buy some gas and get a ride.


...Otherwise, I'll have to get him to come to Oshkosh with me this year

The Sparky Imeson DVD had a Gull wing Stinson and a Staggerwing at home in the Idaho backcountry.

A gentleman was flying around the world in one?

Back in 1997 I hung out at Jim Younkin's shop for a couple of months when he was doing the Mullicoupes. Before that he was doing all the metal work to convert the older models into the G which was the last and the sleekest model.