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Why Fly-in's Might Be Just the Ticket
Some pilots and their partners have flown in as groups, others singly. They seek what they share when they “meet under the tree” at the Spruce Creek fly-in community in Daytona. read more »
Featured Member:
Dirk Leeward
International Cessna 180-185 Club - August 2007
This photo of Dirk Leeward's C-185 Skywagon, left, along with D. L. Fitzpatrick's C-185 taken at Johnson Creek, ID appeared on the cover of this issue. read more »
Featured Member:
Dirk Leeward
Love's lucky number - Ocala Star Banner
"Marie Zackery and Charles Fish always seem to get a reaction when they tell people their wedding date..."
Aviator recalls days spent flying 'Spirit of St. Louis' replica
Ocala aviator Jimmy Leeward got a small taste of what Lindbergh must have felt like when he donned a leather helmet read more »
Featured Member:
Jimmy Leeward
New Jet Class Rules Spark Innovation At Stead
"When the news of new jet class rules for Reno '07 began circulating, some wondered, what, exactly, would become of the sometimes maligned "Hoover" class. read more »
Featured Member:
Jimmy Leeward
Heads in the clouds - Ocala Star Banner
Experimental Aircraft Association is a blessing from above for local charities
Featured Member:
George Schoeler
Jerry Walbrun
Cloud Dancer
A vast collection of memorabilia tells the life story of a family of aviators, beginning with Al Leeward, who flew a mail run in Pennsylvania in the 1930s.
Featured Member:
Jimmy Leeward
Tiger Moth Replica - Wings to Adventure
Video from Wings to Adventure shown on the Outdoor Channel featuring Joe Hutton and his Tiger Moth replica. read more »
Featured Member:
Joe Hutton
Growing Up Airborne - Wings to Adventure
Video from Wings to Adventure shown on the Outdoor Channel features residents telling what it's like growing up and living on an airpark. read more »
Featured Member:
Jimmy Leeward
Dirk Leeward
Wet and Wild - Wings to Adventure
Video from Wings to Adventure shown on the Outdoor Channel featuring Bill Thorup and his Cessna 206 on Wipline amphibious floats. read more »
Featured Member:
Bill Thorup
An Airplane in Every Garage - Wings to Adventure
Video from Wings to Adventure shown on the Outdoor Channel featuring residents telling what it's like living in an airpark. read more »
Featured Member:
Andy Kopelwitz
The Leeward Air Ranch - Wings to Adventure
Video from Wings to Adventure shown on the Outdoor Channel featuring Leeward Air Ranch and some of its residents. read more »
Featured Member:
Jimmy Leeward
Backyard Hobby Lobbies - Wings to Adventure
Video from Wings to Adventure shown on the Outdoor Channel featuring residents projects and their in an airpark. read more »
Featured Member:
Laurie Yonge
Chris Kirchner
Corky Meyer has quite an aviation background
As was explained in a column two weeks ago, three local aviators were awarded the prestigious Wright Brothers Master Pilot Award at Lakeland-Linder Regio read more »
Featured Member:
Corky Meyer
Walbrun earns Master Pilot Award
Three local aviators awarded the prestigious Wright Brothers Master Pilot Award read more »
Featured Member:
Jerry Walbrun
Grumman Test Pilots - Bob Smyth
This begins a series of articles concerning the many pilots who flight tested Grumman’s line of aircraft from 1930 to 1994. read more »
Featured Member:
Bob Smyth
Grumman Test Pilots - Corky Meyer
This begins a series of articles concerning the many pilots who flight tested Grumman’s line of aircraft from 1930 to 1994. read more »
Featured Member:
Corky Meyer
John Bishop - Driven by fast engines
"John and Peggy Bishop's journey to Ocala has been a circuitous route based on the appreciation of powerful cars and a romance with airplanes. read more »
Featured Member:
John Bishop
Peggy Bishop
Round-the-world flyer now an Ocala resident
CarolAnn Garratt’s name is familiar to those who know a young Florida woman made a solo flight around the world in her Mooney M20J in 2003 to increase awareness about ALS/Lou Gehrig’s disease. read more »
Featured Member:
CarolAnn Garratt
The Leeward Air Ranch - Pilot Journal
Jimmy Leeward really never had much of a chance. His parents eloped in an Aeronca C-3.
Featured Member:
Dirk Leeward
Jimmy Leeward
Warbird Pride at Leeward Air Ranch - Ocala Star Banner
"Flight of five, fly-by, break pass, 36." If you’re out flying and monitoring 122.9 and hear that or a similar phrase, spoken in comma read more »
Featured Member:
Jerry Walbrun
RealAero.com - October 2003
Tony Smith brings the Mew Gull to Reno Air Races.
Featured Member:
Tony Smith
Silver Bullet - Air and Space Magazine
No airplane in the world could outshine Howard Hughes' H-1 Racer--until Jim Wright built a copy of it.
Featured Member:
Jimmy Leeward
EAA Chapter 445 - Mar 2003
“We love to fly and it shows” – that line from the old Delta ads kept running thru my head as we drove read more »
Featured Member:
Angela Green
Dances with Clouds
"On the list of all-time Air Race fan favorites, Jimmy Leeward would surely rank near the top. read more »
Featured Member:
Jimmy Leeward
