I was going through old family photos and came across this airplane. It's the Lawhorn Kee Bird. My dad took the photo at an EAA fly-in, possibly when it was held at Rockford, IL.




I remember as a kid reading about it in back issues of Sport Aviation. It does have a wiki page here's a link.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawhorn_Kee_Bird

I wonder what ever happened to it?
Does anyone with deep AK roots remember the ship?

Cheers,
Dave

That's an interesting looking aircraft! Big wing (50% more wing area than a 172 with the same gross weight), big tail and huge flaperons. I wonder how it flew.

Here's a brief article written in Spanish about the plane.

https://www.mimecanicapopular.com/vermnota.php?n=207

Looks like it has an updated cowling in the article picture, probably because the cowling shown in your father's pictures looks pretty bad!

Looks like it has bushwheels. I wonder what big round slicks they were running in 1958? I don't think that the airwheels were around yet.

More info from this thread from Hotrod180 and MTV.

https://backcountrypilot.org/forum/2016-airman-s-show-18875?start=40#p267773