January 2012

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RRSW Spring Campout
RRSW invites you to kickoff the 2012 flying season with a campout at beautiful Cedar Mills Resort on Lake Texoma. Dates are April 14/15. Cedar Mills (3T0) is a 3000ft well manicured grass strip on Lake Texoma-no fuel or services available. Several airports close by with good fuel prices including KSWI. There is a very nice restaurant and bar within walking distance of runway-Pelicans Landing-where we will eat our meals. There are 8 deluxe cabins on runway 137/night , and several more basic cabins a modest hike from runway for 88/night. Both have 14 day cancellation policy. Camping with your plane is 20/night with nice rest rooms and showers nearby. Make your reservations at 903-523-4222.

Tentative plans as follows:

Saturday April 14
10 am arrivals
12 pm lunch at Pelicans landing
1-5 pm formation, flying, visiting, etc
6 pm drinks/dinner at Pelicans landing
8 pm outdoor movie, slideshow, etc

Sunday April 15
8 am breakfast at Pelicans Landing
Departures

 

Identify This Swift
"Here's the story as I recall it. It was either 56' or more likely 57' when I was asked by a guy who had just bought the airplane for a "check out". Truthfully, I had never flown a Swift before, but what the heck? I am a certified instructor, aren't I? As I recall it was two brothers who had bought the airplane and I was to fly with one of them. The wind was out of the north (not a good sign) at the old el Monte airport. The engine was an 85 hp with a controllable propeller via a hand crank on the instrument panel. We took off and I was immediately impressed by the lack of power; like 85 hp should get anything out of el Monte better than this did. We made one pass around the airport and landed. I told the guy that the engine was not developing full power and that I would suggest taking it into the shop there at el Monte and having it checked out before making anymore flights, and that I wouldn't fly in it again until it was repaired. I never made a log book entry due to the brief flight, so I can't say what the date was. So later on in the day I saw the feeble Swift taking off again to the north. I ran over from my vantage point and saw the Swift hit the old wooden bridge that covered lower Azusa road over the the rio Hondo river."

It is hard to read the tail number because of debris. It is listed as a picture in google as N80808, which I know is incorrect.
Do you have any information about this Swift?

 


North to Alaska, the trip of a lifetime

by Marvin Homsley

The purpose of this trip was to meet some friends who were going to be in Homer, Alaska for a few days. I never imagined having so much fun along the way. This was the best few weeks I can remember. It started with winning an award at Oshkosh and now going on the trip I had wanted to make for years.


 

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2012
Swift National Fly-In
Hosted by
Gateway Swift Wings
Creve Coeur Airport
Maryland Heights, Missouri

2012 Swift National
Convention & Fly-In

June 20th - 23rd, 2012

 

Photos by Serial Number
Please check "Photos by Serial Number" section and if
you have pictures of missing serial numbers or
your plane is not pictured please send in those pictures.

 

The Following Airplane is Unknown
If you can identify this airplane please email me Brad@SaginawWings.com
Joe Lemanski replied, I saw a Swift with flat plate tips at the now long deceased McKinley airport in the NE suburbs of Detroit about 1976.
Could this be it?