Hi gang,
Well, I just got back on the red-eye from Phoenix this morning and am now slept up enough to check back in with WIX. I had posted previously that I was accompanying my wife on a trip there for her second interview with a private school there to become a teacher with them. The intervew went well and my wife and I have been getting really excited about the prospect of moving out there... from a warbird point of view... I AM REALLY EXCITED!
I didn't get too much of a chance to explore, so my trips were really brief. I stopped in to Glendale Airport for about 15 minutes on Thursday afternoon just to see Hans Lauridsen's planes based there. I was poking about to see if Matt Gunsch was there, but I didn't see... if you were there, I missed ya man, but I'll be back!
Lauridsens PBY - When is she getting painted?
Laurisdens C-47... paint here too? Who's Mig-21?
A surprise for me... I think its been mentioned here before... an F-8 Crusader sitting in a T-Hangar? What's the story on this one?
There was also a T-6 poking out of a hangar on the North end and a Mig-15 poking out of a hangar on the south end. Both were too far for me to take a fenceline photo. There was also a plane that I saw the nose of in a T-Hangar near the North end that looks predominantly red... nosewheel... two-blade prop... looked like a Ranger engine on it. Was this a Navion I was seeing or was it some other bird? (for those that know the area).
Lil and I went looking at apartment communities for when we move out here (pending a favorable return call from the school this coming week) and since her school will be in Mesa, we looked around there. Found a great place on Higley and Mckellips... ONE BLOCK FROM FALCON FIELD!
Lil loved the gated community, the roman tubs, the high quality of the property. I loved the fact that an SNJ was in the pattern overhead for 15 minutes and the B-17 Sentimental Journey was up for rides... what a bonus!
We'll most likely live there when we move out, and yes, we'll have a guest bedroom for WIX folks wanting a crashpad.
By the time I did a drive around at Falcon, it was late and the light was getting bad. CAF was closed, but hey, I'll be there more when we move.
Hans' B-25 and a BT-13... will she be a flyer? When is the "Mare" getting back in the air? Anyone have an update on the CAF B-25 there?
SJ and the SNJ that were up earlier... what beauties!
A PV-2 near the gate... what's the story with this plane and why it's painted like a Ventura? Was/Is/Will it be a flyer eventually?
The B-25H "Barbie III" was over at Anzio Landing restaurant, but the light was really bad at that point and I didn't get a shot. Three B-25s at one airport... I'm in love.
So that's the trip... Lil is close to getting a job, and now the only thing left is to find me a job there. I did some scouting at Scottsdale Airport and there seems to be quite a bit of activity out there in the way of corporate and business aviation. I have a background in that area and my Bachelor degree was focused on that. I have the historic aircraft operations background with CF for the five years I worked there and now have Public Relations and Marketing experience in aviation through CF and the Associate Director of Marketing position I hold now.
Soooo... if anyone has any leads or thoughts, please let me know! I know some of you have already written back previously, and I appreciate the help!
Oh yeah, here's Lil and I at Superstition Mountain...
Later ya'll,
Ryan
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