Aviation Photographs

by Owen Phairis (KB6CGZ)

(909) 806-5698

For more information regarding these pictures please call Owen at (909) 806-5698

A large collection of Aerial Photographs taken around Big Bear Lake
(Click on Flying Saucer Image to Enter Gallery)

A collection of around 80 pictures taken at the 2015 Big Bear Air Fair
(Click on Spitfire Airplane Image to Enter Gallery)

A great collection of 3-D pictures of Historic Aircraft
(3-D Glasses Required / Red Left Eye, Blue Right Eye)

My New Ride (N8379L) 1968 IFR C-172 Skyhawk (November 2012)

She will become known as: Skyhawk, Brandy, Red Bird or simply "The Flying Candy Cane"

3-D Stereo Images (Red Left Eye and Blue Right Eye)

Owen Phairis

A picture of me by one of my favorite airplanes, a 1929 Curtis Wright Travel Air.
To read about 2 Barnstorming pilots in a Fleet and a Travel-Air, I highly recomend: "Illusions" by Richard Bach.

A beautiful 1927 Travel Air at Gillespie Field in San Diego

Art Scholl (1931-1985)

A picture of my friend and one of the best aerobatic pilots of all time.
Pictured here at Lake Elsinore by the Pitts S-2 which he died in when he failed to come out of a flat spin.

Great Airshow Pilots - Bob Hoover (1922-2016), Harold Krier (1922-1971), Bill Fornoff (1925-1971), Bevo Howard (1914-1971)

Frank Tallman (1919-1978), Big Ed Mahler (1934-1977), Robert J. Gillman (1923-2008), Cole Palen (1925-1993)

Older picture of me in front of the X-3 Stiletto with the XB-70 Valkyrie in the background

Newer picture of me in front of the X-3 Stiletto with the XB-70 Valkyrie in the background

Me in my Batwing with my skydiving buddy Carl (Skyhi) Minion in Indiana

Pictures of me in my Sky Diving days

Dr. Richard Coughlin - Triplane Project and his Fleet Biplane - Syracuse, New York (1960s)

OLD RHINEBECK AERODROME

Carol at Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome, on the wrong side of the fence for the airshow.

Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome - Cole Palen, Owen Phairis, Trudy True Love - 1968

Owen turns Aeronaut - 110,000 cubic foot Raven Balloon

F-86 and P-51 in Upstate New York in the 60s

Planes of Fame Air Museum - Chino, California 2009

The F-86 Sabre has always been one of my favorite Jet Fighters, seen here at Mojave Airport

T-6 Texan, seen here at Mojave Airport

The Orbital Stargazer L-1011 launches the Pegasus Rockets here at the Mojave Spaceport

SR-71 next to a YF-12A at the Blackbird Air Museum

D-21 Drone launched by the SR-71 at March ARB Air Museum

F-100 Super Sabre Thunderbird at the Palmdale Heritage Airpark

DC-3 in American Airlines livery at Lyon Air Museum at John Wayne Airport

B-17 "Fuddy Duddy" at Lyon Air Museum at John Wayne Airport

Miss Jeana Yeager by the Voyager with my two sons

My two sons at the Hugh Dryden NASA Facility at Edwards AFB

Carol at Apple Valley Airport (January 2013)

Owen IV on his first flight with me in over 30 years (December 2014)

My youngest son, JR, getting ready to fly with me on Christmas Eve 2014

My sons JR and Owen (December 2014)

My son, JR, down at Apple Valley Airport (November 2016)

Trish as my co-pilot at Big Bear City Airport

Trish and I getting ready to go a flight to Hemet

Trish and I getting ready to go on a cross country flight

Trish at Apple Valley Airport for breakfast

Patti and Trish down at Hemet-Ryan Airport for Breakfast (October 2017)

Patti just before her first flight in a small plane (November 2016)

Patti at APV after our flight to French Valley Airport (January 2017)

Patti after our flight to Lake Havasu Airport, Arizona (March 2017)

Rick after our flight to take pictures for his new Big Bear History book (October 2016)

Flight into Palm Springs (December 2012)

Unexpected, but welcome passenger

My favorite aircraft of all time: the X-15
Owen Phairis P.O. Box 3400 Big Bear Lake California 92315