Barnstormer is a kind of entertainment where the pilots perform classic tricks while flying out in the air. The American tour of barnstormers was reintroduced in two thousand and six with just seventeen aero planes. The response for the trip was excellent. This response led to the confirmation that peopleContinue Reading
The Fairchild 22 NC14768 was built by the Fairchild Aircraft Company in Hagerstown, MD in 1935. One of the several Model 22 variants, this aircraft originally had a Wright Gipsy 90 HP engine but was converted to a 125 HP Menasco Super Pirate engine when the aircraft was restored. FairchildContinue Reading
Owner/Pilot: Jim Hammond Stinson 886 was manufactured in August 1931 by Stinson Aircraft Company of Wayne, Michigan and spent its first 10 years flying scheduled service in major cities, up and down the east coast It served with the C.A.P. during WWII and was used for banner towing and charterContinue Reading
Owner/Pilot: Dennis Guentzel Waco Taperwing s/n A-83 was born 4/49/29 and delivered to its first owner, famous race pilot Johnny Livingston. Its original registration was NC8568. Records are sketchy, at best, but they show a transfer to a gentleman in Illinois a few years later. It was so registered untilContinue Reading
Do you dream of attending a barnstorming tour where you can watch and admire the antique planes flying in? If you always wanted to get a first-hand experience of seeing or even riding an antique plane, our barnstorming tours offer an excellent opportunity to do just that. Several meticulously restoredContinue Reading
Have you ever read about the barnstorming tours conducted by the daring pilots in the 1920s across America and wondered what it would have been like to witness that thrilling and exciting event in real? You are in luck! Our American Barnstormers tour is being organized just for people likeContinue Reading
Owner/Pilot: Hank Galpin Co-pilot: Ray Sanders Hank Galpin On rainy days in college Hank Galpin could often be found high in the upper reaches of Yale’s Sterling Memorial Library. There he found treasure in the aviation section: Saint Exupery, Ernie Gann, and Slats Rodgers’ “Old Soggy No. 1”. Hank learnedContinue Reading
Owner/Pilot: Richard “Speed” Hornbeck Waco 08N was built by the Advanced Aircraft Company in Troy, Ohio, in October 1929 for the Texas Petroleum Company (Texaco) as its seventh airplane, and therefore is affectionately referred to as Texaco No. 7. The paint scheme you see it in now is almost exactlyContinue Reading
Owner/Pilot: Clay Adams Clay “Pork Chop” Adams grew up in aviation. He became the family’s second-generation airline pilot, learning to fly at a very early age. Having flown 97 different aircraft, clay searched for an airplane that would do it all. Curtiss Wright manufactured this Travel Air 4000 in WichitaContinue Reading
Owner/Pilot: David “Candy Man” Mars A large measure of Southern charm, expertly blended with 40 years of flying vintage aircraft, makes a perfect recipe for this Mississippi barnstormer’s sweet success as owner/operator of Vintage Air Tours. Rumored to have soloed a Piper Cub at the age of two, the “CandyContinue Reading