My 1958 Cessna 182A (Skylane). I bought her in March of 2007 and learned to fly in it. Got my PPL in Nov. 2008.

Dry lake bed south of Austin, NV


Amboy, CA


Johnson Creek 2009


Somewhere in the Owyhee's

The rental (and the plane I learned to fly in):

1957 PA 22/20

Nice rides!

My Kitfox Classic 4. 52 horsepower air cooled Rotax. Built by me. 1200 hours total build time. Finished ten years ago. My first attempt at building an airplane. Pictures taken today after I washed it.







A different perspective, Flaperon hinges.

Forgot my first love. Well, it's my dad's actually but he lets me borrow her now and then. Yeah that sounds obscene.

It does not get much more stick 'n rudder than this.

Hey a Quicksilver! I had an MXII for a while... instead of ailerons it had spoilerons attached to the pedals. Was very weird... controls were reversed if you wanted to try and slip.

My (almost mine) 108-1...

Cessna 150/150hp owned by my friend/flight instructor that I frequently rent, 6316S aka "Littlebird"

justine wrote:

Nice plane! I love the look of the Stinsons. Sometimes I wish that I had bought the "right" wrapper for my Franklin 165

At Pacific City with My girl!

Nahalem Bay, OR very cool place!

In Flight over Chehalis, WA

So that all the future women know she's got a special place in my heart!

The way some people may have remembered my airplane! (Mahoney Creek, ID)

(click to see big image!)

dirtstrip wrote:First US completion of Tundra. Picture taken in farm yard where it is hangared. So easy a farm boy could do it, I don't graduate to Caveman until the Utah fly in.

Superb Dirtstrip!!! "I want I want I want" (pounding on computer monitor)

Sold this a few months ago and miss it:

My first for 10 my years.


My current for 4 years

Great Thread - cool to see all these awesome planes.

My Current Rans S-7S, finished in June 2009




My first Rans S--7 (2001 Longtail), now sold

"Honey" at the beach. My 2006 Rans S-7S

Ocotillo Wells, Ca

Hey Mudwagon, is that an ex-CHP Skywagon?? Nice pic!

Family picture at El Rincon, a dirt strip in Southern Baja where we tie down for the winter.

Summer home for the 185. "Tied down" on Bridge Lake, BC, Canada

On a local gravel bar


On a lake in Vermont