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Aero-News Network is running a series on College Park Airport after 9/11. Very sad. In this first part, April 2nd, you will see several shots of J3s over the University of MD nearby. I last flew there just before 9/11.
http://www.aero-news.net/
I took my first five flying lessons there in 1954 in J3s of course! Each lesson was between 31 and 37 min. and the last two nothing but landings and takeoffs. Did that on pocket change from a summer job. How times have changed.
Of the three J3s used then in my log book, only one shows up on FAA registry, N92270. But it shows registration as "revoked." Anybody know what that means about the fate of the aircraft? Brinckerhoff ran the flight school there in the 50s and his son did for a while in the 60s when I was in college, at the U of MD.
I'm determined to take a Cub flight back there some day not withstanding all the @#*&# red tape.
Jim Newton
http://www.aero-news.net/
I took my first five flying lessons there in 1954 in J3s of course! Each lesson was between 31 and 37 min. and the last two nothing but landings and takeoffs. Did that on pocket change from a summer job. How times have changed.
Of the three J3s used then in my log book, only one shows up on FAA registry, N92270. But it shows registration as "revoked." Anybody know what that means about the fate of the aircraft? Brinckerhoff ran the flight school there in the 50s and his son did for a while in the 60s when I was in college, at the U of MD.
I'm determined to take a Cub flight back there some day not withstanding all the @#*&# red tape.
Jim Newton
