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Why Fly-in's Might Be Just the Ticket

  • Airparks
  • LAR in the News

Some pilots and their partners have flown in as groups, others singly. They seek what they share when they “meet under the tree” at the Spruce Creek fly-in community in Daytona.  read more »

Featured Member: 
Dirk Leeward

International Cessna 180-185 Club - August 2007

  • Fly-Ins
  • Member Aircraft

 This photo of Dirk Leeward's C-185 Skywagon, left, along with D. L. Fitzpatrick's C-185 taken at Johnson Creek, ID appeared on the cover of this issue.  read more »

Featured Member: 
Dirk Leeward

Love's lucky number - Ocala Star Banner

  • In the News
  • Wedding

"Marie Zackery and Charles Fish always seem to get a reaction when they tell people their wedding date..."

Aviator recalls days spent flying 'Spirit of St. Louis' replica

  • History
  • In the News

Ocala aviator Jimmy Leeward got a small taste of what Lindbergh must have felt like when he donned a leather helmet  read more »

Featured Member: 
Jimmy Leeward

New Jet Class Rules Spark Innovation At Stead

  • Air Racing
  • Humor
  • In the News

"When the news of new jet class rules for Reno '07 began circulating, some wondered, what, exactly, would become of the sometimes maligned "Hoover" class.  read more »

Featured Member: 
Jimmy Leeward

Heads in the clouds - Ocala Star Banner

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Experimental Aircraft Association is a blessing from above for local charities

Featured Member: 
George Schoeler
Jerry Walbrun

Cloud Dancer

  • Biographical Feature
  • History
  • In the News

A vast collection of memorabilia tells the life story of a family of aviators, beginning with Al Leeward, who flew a mail run in Pennsylvania in the 1930s.

Featured Member: 
Jimmy Leeward

Growing Up Airborne - Wings to Adventure

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  • In the News
  • Video
  • LAR in the News

Video from Wings to Adventure shown on the Outdoor Channel features residents telling what it's like growing up and living on an airpark.  read more »

Featured Member: 
Jimmy Leeward
Dirk Leeward

Wet and Wild - Wings to Adventure

  • In the News
  • Seaplanes
  • Video
  • LAR in the News

Video from Wings to Adventure shown on the Outdoor Channel featuring Bill Thorup and his Cessna 206 on Wipline amphibious floats.  read more »

Featured Member: 
Bill Thorup

An Airplane in Every Garage - Wings to Adventure

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  • In the News
  • Video
  • LAR in the News

Video from Wings to Adventure shown on the Outdoor Channel featuring residents telling what it's like living in an airpark.  read more »

Featured Member: 
Andy Kopelwitz

The Leeward Air Ranch - Wings to Adventure

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  • In the News
  • Video
  • LAR in the News

Video from Wings to Adventure shown on the Outdoor Channel featuring Leeward Air Ranch and some of its residents.  read more »

Featured Member: 
Jimmy Leeward

Backyard Hobby Lobbies - Wings to Adventure

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  • Restoration
  • Seaplanes
  • Video
  • Warbird
  • LAR in the News

Video from Wings to Adventure shown on the Outdoor Channel featuring residents projects and their in an airpark.  read more »

Featured Member: 
Laurie Yonge
Chris Kirchner

Tiger Moth Replica - Wings to Adventure

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  • Member Aircraft
  • Video
  • LAR in the News

Video from Wings to Adventure shown on the Outdoor Channel featuring Joe Hutton and his Tiger Moth replica.  read more »

Featured Member: 
Joe Hutton

Corky Meyer has quite an aviation background

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  • In the News

As was explained in a column two weeks ago, three local aviators were awarded the prestigious Wright Brothers Master Pilot Award at Lakeland-Linder Regio  read more »

Featured Member: 
Corky Meyer

Walbrun earns Master Pilot Award

  • Biographical Feature
  • In the News

Three local aviators awarded the prestigious Wright Brothers Master Pilot Award  read more »

Featured Member: 
Jerry Walbrun

Grumman Test Pilots - Bob Smyth

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  • History
  • In the News

This begins a series of articles concerning the many pilots who flight tested Grumman’s line of aircraft from 1930 to 1994.  read more »

Featured Member: 
Bob Smyth

Grumman Test Pilots - Corky Meyer

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  • In the News

This begins a series of articles concerning the many pilots who flight tested Grumman’s line of aircraft from 1930 to 1994.  read more »

Featured Member: 
Corky Meyer

John Bishop - Driven by fast engines

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"John and Peggy Bishop's journey to Ocala has been a circuitous route based on the appreciation of powerful cars and a romance with airplanes.  read more »

Featured Member: 
John Bishop
Peggy Bishop

Round-the-world flyer now an Ocala resident

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CarolAnn Garratt’s name is familiar to those who know a young Florida woman made a solo flight around the world in her Mooney M20J in 2003 to increase awareness about ALS/Lou Gehrig’s disease.  read more »

Featured Member: 
CarolAnn Garratt

The Leeward Air Ranch - Pilot Journal

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  • LAR in the News
Photo of Aeronca C-3 and Piper J-3 over Leeward Air Ranch

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 Jimmy Leeward really never had much of a chance. His parents eloped in an Aeronca C-3.

Featured Member: 
Dirk Leeward
Jimmy Leeward

Warbird Pride at Leeward Air Ranch - Ocala Star Banner

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  • Fly-Ins
  • In the News
  • Warbird

"Flight of five, fly-by, break pass, 36." If you’re out flying and monitoring 122.9 and hear that or a similar phrase, spoken in comma  read more »

Featured Member: 
Jerry Walbrun

RealAero.com - October 2003

  • Air Racing
  • In the News
  • Member Aircraft

Tony Smith brings the Mew Gull to Reno Air Races.

Featured Member: 
Tony Smith

Silver Bullet - Air and Space Magazine

  • Air Racing
  • History
  • In the News

No airplane in the world could outshine Howard Hughes' H-1 Racer--until Jim Wright built a copy of it.

Featured Member: 
Jimmy Leeward

EAA Chapter 445 - Mar 2003

  • In the News
  • LAR in the News

“We love to fly and it shows” – that line from the old Delta ads kept running thru my head as we drove  read more »

Featured Member: 
Angela Green

Dances with Clouds

  • Air Racing
  • In the News

"On the list of all-time Air Race fan favorites, Jimmy Leeward would surely rank near the top.  read more »

Featured Member: 
Jimmy Leeward
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