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Since we're in "recon mode," here's George "Bud" Myers' Aeronca L16..
Bud, a former aerospace engineer from Huntsville, Alabama, says the L16 was number 50 of 100 built. It's Korean War vintage, and may have served there.
 Of course, in combat it would have been used for artillery spotting..a chilling thought for anybody who knows his/her Aeroncas. Unlike your old champ, though, this one has 90 hp. Bud (right) says that gives it better take off and climb, but only adds about 5 mph over the old 65 hp air -knocker.
Bud's L16 was an award winner at Sun 'N' Fun. But he says when he found it, about ten years ago, it was a basket case.
As it turns out Bud and I both may have had some previous experience with the airplane: after it finished a tour of duty as a communications trainer at San Marcos Air Base it served in the CAP at Morgantown, WV. Bud and I are both natives, long familiar with Morgantown's Hart Field.
 Want to buy an Antonov AN5? 1985 model (left). Looks just like the 1955 model.
Last time I saw one of those, it was parked in the weeds on the airport at Belgrade, Yugoslavia when Jimmy Carter was President.
On the right, that's the swanky interior of the new version of the two-place Luscombe. That is so pretty!! Pricey, but pretty.
On the left is the 1931 Stinson Junior S that belongs to Jim Hammond of Yellow Springs, Ohio. Jim says it's a "hoot" to fly: "like riding a bike with flat tires." I'll have to think about that one.
The plane may have done bush service; there are float fittings on the fuselage.
Life's some adventure, ain't it?
 That airplane looks like it's wondering "who the heck are all these people??"
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