S B J's Photo Gallery

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Aircraft and airport photos are sorted separately. Airport photos always shown after aircraft photos.

Aircraft N39932, 932 at the now closed Shingletown airport in NE calif. Was a neat airport with a jump jet rise you can see at the far end. It is like a loss of an old friend when one of these neat airports close., photo by S B J
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Aircraft N9078E, 78E shown what it is very good at,off field landing.The chief is a very good and capable plane and I very much enjoyed (most of) the 2K hours I was fortunate to fly them., photo by S B J
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Aircraft N8059X, 59X at Big Flat (6 miles north of Shelter Cove,Ca) in 1981.Was used by many pilots for fly ins & camping until it became a national wilderness area known as The Lost Coast. O well., photo by S B J
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Aircraft N9078E, 78E making a low level/ high speed pass (maybe scratch the high speed) at the old Fremont airport back in 1977., at Q59, photo by S B J
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Aircraft N5248Z, 48Z on short final at New J-, at 1Q4, photo by S B J
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@ 1Q4
Aircraft N39246, Early lesson from my dad on how to prop a plane. Good advice as I am still here after a few thousand starts since with no (well almost no) problems., at 1Q4, photo by S B J
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@ 1Q4
Aircraft N39246, 246 at New J with a slight (smidgen) engine problem in 1973., at 1Q4, photo by S B J
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Aircraft N2593E, 93E flying south on the Calif. coast near Half Moon Bay with Hy 1 seen below 93E. Nice day , flying along the beautiful Calif coast with a good plane-flying just didnt get much better then this, at least in my book !, photo by S B J
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Aircraft N43961, On dry lake outside of Death Valley,Ca. Dry lakes are very nice to land on but be careful for water under the surface or your entire day ( 172s on 5-29-64 & 7-4-75 & C150 on 10-3-71) could be ruined ! Almost happened to me on one- almost- dry lake ., photo by S B J
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Aircraft N5248Z, 48Z at the Cottonwood Landing airport right next to the Colorado river. This super neat airport is now closed. Again the environmentalists (National Recreation Area) won out over us pilots!, photo by S B J
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Aircraft N4058J, 58J at the Fremont airport (Calif) in 1984.The Beech 18 in the back was the largest plane to fly in and out of Fremont in the 15 years I was there.Fremont had a narrow (and some felt rough) runway., at Q59, photo by S B J
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Aircraft N23DM, 3DM at the Modesto airport in Calif. in 2002.Wanted to buy this neat little plane., at MOD, photo by S B J
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@ MOD