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Past Aircraft

Year (?)	Type Aircraft	# Flights	Manufacturer	Where is it today?
1975	Control Line PT-19	100+	Cox	Scrap yard
1976	Control Line Stuka	100+	Cox	Scrap yard
1977	Shoe String Stunter	200+	??????	Scrap yard-first balsa plane I built myself.
1978	Control Line P-40	100+	??????	Scrap yard
1979	Control Line P-51	100+	??????	Scrap yard
1980	Glider launch by high start.	120+	?	Scrap yard-First RC aircraft
1980-1990	Fly RC gliders and a bunch of control line	1000+	?	Scrap yard
1980-1990	Theatre TD-Rigging/Lighting Guy-Cars-Girls-Stuff.
1990	Eagle II	65+	Goldberg	Scrap yard
1990	Tiger II	40+	Goldberg	Turned into twin that broke up in the air during high speed pass.
1990	Eagle II second trainer	100+	Goldberg	Crashed in Midair collision at fun fly
1991	Cougar	210+	Sig	Crashed in landing/spin chute accident
1991	Aeromaster Biplane	100+	GP	Sold?????
1991	Space Shuttle	0.5	Scratch	Crashed when mother ship failed to get altitude resulting in stall.
1991	C-130	25+	Scratch	Crashed Lost 2 engines on take-off couldn't make it back to the field.
1992	Goldberg Chipmunk	500+	Goldberg	50% Crashed flyUpdate: Gave to friend.
1992	Sukhoi	200+	Midwest	Sold
1992	Sukhoi	75+	?	Sold
1992	F4U-Corsair	25+	Top Flight	Still have in Hangar
1992	Cub	75+	Goldberg	?
1992	T-28		PICA	Still have in Hangar/Built but never Flown Update: Gave to friend.
1192	A-10 DF	90+	Scratch	Sold to guy who took credit for building it.
1992	Messerschmitt 109	65+	?	Crashed in dog fight with power-lines, the pilots funeral was moving
1993	Pitts	50+	Byron	Sold
1993	Trilander	50+	Scratch	Crashed lost #1 engine flying knife edge down the runway
1993	Ziroli F4U-Corsair	100+	Scratch	Sold
1993	Christen Eagle	300+	Byron	Crashed performing a  snap roll on take off, had done this 50+ times
1993	Christen Eagle #2	300+	Byron	Crashed by other pilot turning his radio on-SHOT DOWN by ignorance
1994	Sukhoi-Show on Past projects page.	200+	Byron	Sold to friend who crashed on his 1st flight
1994	F-16 jet	3	Byron	Crashed on 3rd test flight: High Speed Flutter of H-stab while in shallow dive.
1994	Extra 260	500+	Ohio RC	Sold
1994	Left RC for Full Scale aircraft and Skydiving.
2002	Started 179" B-29 back in RC!		Scratch	Wing fail load testing, bad design of main spar, aircraft destroyed
2004-2005	50% Pitts	54	Scratch	Being re-designed as a 65% Pitt S-1
2006-2008	Yak 56" wingspan	200+	E-flight	Cool electric Yak that I can fly in the street in front of my house (not 50%)
2005-2008	Ultimate 38" wingspan	300+	?????	Cool electric Ultimate Biplane that I can fly in the street in front of my house (not 50%)