Lady taildragger pilot Tori Patterson is based at KMCX, White County Airport, Monticello, Indiana. This is Tori's love story. My love story starts the summer after I graduated high school, while I was a fresh private pilot volunteering at our local Aviation Day. My job was to write down...
Sarah & Jim Dickerson are based at KGPH, Midwest National Air Center Airport, Mosby, Missouri. (Kansas City) This is Sarah's love story. My love story starts with my love affair with aviation - I was bitten by the bug as a preteen, and was determined to become an...
Linda Buroker-Melhoff is based at 7S9, Lenhard's Air Haven, Oregon. This is Linda's love story. My chance meeting with Rich occurred, appropriately, on a commercial flight from Oakland to Seattle. We were seated aisle and window with an empty seat between but didn't speak until food was...
Stephanie Schledorn is based at KMKO, Muskogee-Davis Regional Airport, Muskogee, Oklahoma. This is Stephanie's love story. I got my PPL in 2005 and would hang out at the airport with the old "bums" on weekends. One day in late December 2005 it was really windy and Oklahoma was in...
Lady taildragger pilot Dianne Wieman-Deyeso is based at 1TE4, Zuehl Airport, Marion, Texas. This is Dianne's love story. I became involved in Civil Air Patrol because of a need to fly and had just survived a divorce. On my way home to Houston, TX from a Mission we...
Cassandra Barrong is based at 61S, Cottage Grove State Airport, Cottage Grove, Oregon. This is Cassandra's love story. When I moved to Cottage Grove, OR, in the fall of 2012, my now husband began telling me stories of crazy Oregon outlaws who flew homebuilt aircraft illegally and had...
Missy Martin is based at KDLN, Dillon Airport, Dillon, Montana. This is Missy's LLT 'Pilot Profile' and her love story! So there I was…a dopey, awkward, high-school senior at the Bozeman, Montana airshow in 2001. My dream was to fly and I wanted my senior year book photo in...
Terri Cole is based at TE72, Taylor Field Airport, Bivins, Texas. [caption id="attachment_46021" align="aligncenter" width="240"] Terri & Larry Cole[/caption] I'm not sure if I can make this short and sweet, so why try. Back story - In August 2006 I asked a coworker/friend, in a jokingly manner, if...
Anne Wright is based at KARB, Ann Arbor Municipal Airport, Ann Arbor, Michigan. [caption id="attachment_46012" align="aligncenter" width="570"] On a tour with the Michigan Stearman Club[/caption] I had been a member of a flying club with some beautiful, well-kept Archers, and enjoyed flying them. Until I met a J3 Cub at...
Lady Taildragger pilot Nic Orchard is based at EGHB, Maypole Airfield, Kent, UK. I had no interest in flying. I hadn't been in any aircraft until work sent me to Germany for a week. Yet, by accompanying my father to the gliding club he'd just joined, I...
