Aviation Photographs

by Owen Phairis

Most Photographs Copyright Owen Phairis

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

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

In good company, parked next to a Grumman Widgeon at Bracket Airfield

My Flying buddies Katherine and Dana at Apple Valley Airport

Dana in front of her Skyhawk airplane when we flew to Nevada

Robert J. Gillman (1923-2008)

I got my love of Airplanes from my Dad who worked for American Airlines all his life, but my love for Flying came from Bob Gillman.
It was with Mr. G. that I made my first flight in a small plane, my first landing, and had my introduction to Aerobatics in a T-34.
He was not only my first flight instructor, but also a friend and mentor. Bob Gillman was a pilot in WW II and flew B-24s.
His war memoirs are available through this link, and is a fantastic read: Memories of War and Peace

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.

Great Airshow Pilots - Bob Hoover, Harold Krier, Bill Fornoff, Bevo Howard

Frank Tallman, Big Ed Mahler, Bob Gillman, Cole Palen

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

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

Owen turns Aeronaut - 110,000 cubic foot Raven Balloon

2013 Lake Havasu Arizona Balloon Festival

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

Planes of Fame Air Museum - Chino, California 2009