Photo Essay:The Blakesburg Fly-In
Antique airplanes—the cream of the crop—fluttered around corn country to celebrate an air mail birthday.
- By airspacemag.com
- AirSpaceMag.com, November 18, 2008
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Caroline Sheen
1929 New Standard D-25
Livery: New Standard Aircraft Corporation
Tail number NC7286
Ted Davis and Chris Price of Brodhead, Wisconsin, spent 15 months restoring the D-25—just in time to offer rides on the American Barnstormers Heartland Tour last summer. Davis, who runs Davis Flying Service, is also restoring a Bird, a Piper PA-12, and another New Standard D-25. This airplane, one of seven D-25s flying today, flew mail and postal officials from Blakesburg to Ottumwa to Iowa City and back on August 30.
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Comments (1)
I remember seeing the two Sikorsky flying boats owned by
Martin and Osa Johnson at the Chanute Airport about 1933 or 1934. We lived in Chanute, Kansas at the time, and took
photographs of both planes (unfortunately, none of the photos exist today).
Posted by Robert Finch on March 9,2010 | 03:56 PM