Pick up the latest edition of AOPA Pilot Magazine, the January 2017 issue, and you'll see a surprising sight; an aerial shot of a worn, old Cessna 180 Skywagon, not the usual award winning aircraft you're expecting. The beautiful old bird is polished aluminum with...
Maureen Sherwood is based at KSBP, San Luis County Regional Airport, San Luis Obispo, California. [caption id="attachment_38424" align="aligncenter" width="570"] 1955 Cessna 180[/caption] I started taking flying lessons as a young wife of a Navy Pilot back in the early 1970s. My husband really wanted me to learn to fly...
Jan Liberty sent in these fun pictures to celebrate the holiday. "Happy 4th of July!! Sharing  pictures taken of me a few years back with my 1955 Cessna 180 while camping at Sullivan Lake (09S) located in NE Washington State." [caption id="attachment_34964" align="aligncenter" width="570"] Jan Liberty &...
Katie Pribyl is based at KFDK, Frederick Municipal Airport, Frederick, Maryland. [caption id="attachment_34626" align="aligncenter" width="431"] Katie Pribyl[/caption] I grew up on a cattle ranch in Montana and much of my early exposure to GA was backcountry flying in taildraggers. So when it came time to make my first airplane...
Vicki Coles is based at KVUO, Pearson Field Airport, Vancouver, Washington. [caption id="attachment_34171" align="aligncenter" width="414"] Vicki Coles[/caption] My first flying lesson was in 1975 in a Taylorcraft at Evergreen Field, Vancouver, WA. I soloed in the Taylorcraft and then "moved on" to the Aeronca Champ. (One didn't "move UP" to the...
Darcy Groves is based at 1C9, Frazier Lake Airpark, Hollister, California. 1955 Cessna 180, N180HB and am a student pilot....
I frequently receive interesting and enjoyable emails from people but this recent one from Dee Ann Ediger was extra special. Dee Ann attended our LLT flyin at Gaston's and sent this one I just have to share. I think you'll love it as much as...
Susan Dusenbury is based at her own strip, 13NR, Dusenbury Field Airport, Walnut Cove, North Carolina. I currently fly my Cessna 180 and Taylor J-2 "Cub" out of my private airstrip located here on my farm in North Carolina. I began flying at the age of 15 and...
Carolina Anderson is based in Daytona, Florida. Currently my husband and I own ( and fly) Â a Pitts S1T, a Cubcrafters Cub S-2, a Cessna 180, an Aircam and a Piper Pawnee tow-plane. I have several hundred hours giving instruction in tailwheel and aerobatic airplanes, such ad...
Roni MacPherson is based at (KSEE) Gillespie Field Airport, San Diego/El Cajon, California and flies a Piper PA-16 Clipper. Roni with her 1949 Piper Clipper I have a 1927 Travel Air 4000, 1929 Travel Air 4000, 1947 Luscombe 8A/F, 1949 Piper PA-16 Clipper, 1954 Cessna 180. - The Clipper...
