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Alaskan Birthday flight - 1/18/2004 3:24:44 PM   
ramcfarland



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Scanned this treasured picture of Mom,Dad and myself taken several years ago 1957. We were just getting ready to fly out of Anchorage I think. To save my-------I can't identify which 'Piper' this was?I can tell you I was in the back so called jump seat- Ever Fly over Alaska's blue water and see a Polar bear walking on ice ? I did and now it is a so called Flash Bulb Memory. We landed on an abandoned steel matt landing strip used during War II 'I think' and explored this old Russian Orthadox Church.

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RE: Alaskan Birthday flight - 1/18/2004 6:54:49 PM   
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Status: offline 		Is this some kind of regular family outing?

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RE: Alaskan Birthday flight - 1/18/2004 6:58:06 PM   
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Status: offline 		Cool family photo. Is it a Piper Pacer?
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RE: Alaskan Birthday flight - 1/18/2004 10:44:42 PM   
ramcfarland



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ORIGINAL: Zpat

Is this some kind of regular family outing?
No my Dad regularly flew while stationed in Fairbanks and later Anchorage. It was my birth day so,Dad flew us on a "cross country flight,"we landed on an old WWII abandoned flying field which as mentioned had a steel matt runway.. The flight over a vast horizon of Alaska's vast areas of water and ice burgs was memorable indeed for me. To look down and see a Polar bear on an ice sheet was fascinating!

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RE: Alaskan Birthday flight - 1/18/2004 10:48:33 PM   
ramcfarland



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ORIGINAL: twostroker

Cool family photo. Is it a Piper Pacer?
Tim
Tim that is one of the reasons for this post as I would like to know which model Piper so I can build a replica. The photo was taken in 1957 so--I'd imagine the paint scheme visible in the picture was "factory paint"

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RE: Alaskan Birthday flight - 1/18/2004 11:00:10 PM   
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Status: offline 		I'm not sure of the number I think a pa22 Super Cub thats when they enclosed the engine in the cowl and set the seats side by side with a jump seat in the rear. The Tri Pacer had a nose gear.

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RE: Alaskan Birthday flight - 1/19/2004 12:36:17 AM   
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RE: Alaskan Birthday flight - 1/19/2004 1:50:55 AM   
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Status: offline 		Looks like a PA-15 or PA-17 Vagabond to me, The aft fuselage bowes in rather then out... that's the easiest way to tell the difference between the Vagabond and the Pacer/Colt/Clipper ect... then again it could be the PA-16 Clipper... I know less about the PA-16 then the rest.

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RE: Alaskan Birthday flight - 1/19/2004 8:25:07 PM   
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Status: offline 		Great story! Thanks for sharing. My dad had his private lic. in the late 70's and early 80's. No polar bears in WI. Sounds neat what you saw.

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