[hharney]

Great story, nice looking Piper.

My owning experience is pretty short. My dad gave me the 1968 Skymaster that I still have back in 1994. Dad bought it in 1976 with 356 hours since new. It's been a great plane and I did a complete restoration on it in 2008-2009. I still fly it about 80 hours a year and has about 3600 TT now.

In 2003 I purchased a Twin Comanche with a friend. Nice airplane for trips but not for joy rides. Sold it in 2011 so just the Skymaster flying now.

I am building a Van's RV-8A and will soon be racing around the sky. Looking forward to some light aerobatics in it.

In 2009 I got my commercial license and started flying Part 91 for a client. He has a Piper Saratoga then moved on to a Piper Navajo. He partnered with another client and that client moved to a Piper Cheyenne, then to a Beechjet. Still flying for him today and others. I flew the Piper Saratoga for another client and then moved to a Lancair Columbia 400. Started flying a Piper Cheyenne III for another client then they purchased an Eclipse Jet and that has been a really fun plane. Still flying a couple Navajo's for a couple folks when needed and at one time was flying 4 different Cheyenne's during the same period. One was for Pilots for Christ to do humanitarian missions. Let's see did I leave anything out.......oh the occasional flight is a Bonanza A36 for a friends company and two different RV's for fun. There's been a couple other Skymasters in there for several guys. One from Atlanta to Western Canada for a guy that purchased the plane. A P model Skymaster for a client that wanted to sell the plane and I got it sold for him. Through all these airplanes was some standard stuff, the Cherokee's, Skylanes, 150's, and a tail wheel Cessna 140. I may have missed one but that's the bulk of it. Dad was with me on almost all these flights in spirit. Dad loved flying so he was my focus on each mission to be with him. It's been an amazing adventure.............