AirVenture 2017 - Vintage Aircraft
A beautifully polished 1947 Cessna 120.
   
An equally beautifully polished 1946 Globe GC-1B Swift.
   

I was fascinated by this plane, never having seen one before.  I couldn't believe how low its belly hung to the ground.

It turns out that it is a Howard 500.  Of the 20 or so that were built, only two are still flying.  This is one of them.
   
And this is the other!  The Howard 500 was an American executive transport aircraft produced by Howard Aero Inc during the early 1960s.
   
 
   
A Luscombe Model 10 single-seater.  It's powerplant was a 65 hp Continental.  Luscombe  felt that there was not a sufficient market for a single-seater, and decided not to develop it.  The single
prototype was destroyed.  So where did this one come from?
   
Of course I had to include a picture of Chippy, Mark M.'s Lindy aware-winning Super Chipmunk.
   
I had some fun taking a picture of myself using the highly polished side of a twin Beech.
   
An Army UC-64A Norseman, built in 1943, and served in Alaska during WWII.  Looks like the perfect bush plane for Alaska.  Over 900 were produced.
   
Looking south down the Vintage Aircraft parking area.
   
Another perfectly polished Swift.  I thought this was the best polished airplane at AirVenture.
   
Worthy of another picture.
   
If I could have any plane after my RV, it would be this Republic SeaBee.
   
Cessna 195 alley.
   
 
   
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