Marty Bevill - Born in 1960 and raised in Fresno California @ Sierra Skypark (E79) and since I can remember I have had an interest in airplanes and high performance cars. Since I was around aviation every day growing up it was only natural to become more and more interested in how these work. My first meeting with an aircraft I can remember was 3-4 years old when my father would fly us in his Cessna 170B to family events and as I got older snow skiing at Mammoth and June mountains in the eastern sierras was a normal weekend event. Dad upgraded to a Cessna 182A and the trips into the high sierras were easy. Dad kept an old Jeep at the airport to get us to the ski lodge.Then as I grew older a job was found at Sierra Skypark with Frank Ruiz Avionics. Starting out just cleaning airplanes and the shop/hangar areas soon grew into antenna installs and wiring harness fabrication as well as bench harnesses and in flight adjustments. Frank and his wife Becky were very patient with me and as I grew with the company they kept me employed, then they finally outgrew the small airport shop/hangar where I grew up and moved into Fresno Chandler downtown (KFCH) airport. I continued to work there until out of high school. As I left high school I became interested in automotive areas. I attended Fresno City College automotive training and graduated with a California State certificates in Emission controls, Brake and Lamp and tune up as well as alignments and drivability.I also attended the ASE school and obtained an ASE Master technician certificate. Over the next 12 years I worked at several shops and dealers in California doing this type of work on almost every car from Volkswagen beetles up to Lamborghini Countachs. I also obtained state board certification to be a emission control inspector for the state of California and performed smog control inspections on cars and trucks in California. Soon I found industrial equipment to be better paying with less state licensing issues and fees. So I went to work on Forklifts for Graylift in Fresno, then on to Nissan forklift and eventually Quinn Caterpillar which was also a Crown forklift dealer. After a while at Quinn Caterpillar/Crown in Fresno, Ca. I was offered a position at Crown global HQ in New Bremen, Ohio. Off we went in a hurry to Ohio. I worked 5 years as a Technical Service rep for Crown Forklifts in Ohio. Then due to a corporate wide layoff I took a month in Kansas at Career pilot school and got my CFII and IGI certificates so now I can teach pilots from students to other instructors as well as Instrument pilots. I have started working for Miami Industrial Trucks a Caterpillar/Mitsubishi Forklift dealer in Dayton, Ohio as their Director of Safety and Training, I plan on doing flight training on the weekends and evenings. One thing became evident right away, in the state where the Wright Brothers grew up, aviation is alive and well. So I started looking for an aircraft of my own, I found a 1969 Piper Arrow and proceeded to fix it up and used it to get my Instrument rating in 2006 and then my Commercial certificate in 2008. I sold the Piper Arrow for a 1987 Beechcraft Bonanza in May of 2008 to give us more speed and room. I have a BS in Aviation Technology as well as a Masters in Aviation Management.
Todd Bills - Todd enjoys flying a Cessna 150 out of Portland (PLD) and is working on tail-wheel training at Waynesfield (40i)
When he is not inspecting elevators across western Ohio, his time is focused on a Double Eagle.
Ken Boyd - Ken is building a Vans Aircraft RV9A. This aircraft is a side by side two place non aerobatic cross country aircraft that will have a top cruise close to 185 MPH and a landing speed of around 45 MPH. Installed is a Lycoming 0-320 160 HP aircraft engine, the instrument panel is set up for a Dynon D-180 glass panel, which has the flight instruments and the engine instruments included in the same panel.
Here is a link to his builders log:
Ken's Builders Log
Tom Fortman -
Dick Heiby - Dick has owned three airplanes throughout his flying career. It began with a 1946 Taylorcraft BC12-D (N95018), followed by a 1970 180hp Cardinal C-177B (N30874), and finally a 1945 Taylorcraft BC12-D (N39157). Weekdays you can find him at the Nationwide Insurance office in Celina, wishing he was in an LSA boring holes in the sky.
Mark Hines - Mark is a private pilot who lost his medical and has embraced ultra-light aviation to exercise his wings. He pilots a 2004 Hawk Ultra demonstrator he purchased direct from the factory off his own 70x1800 sod 18/36 runway.
Dick Murray - Dick currently owns N58374, a 1942 Piper J3C-65, he is rebuilding from the ground up. He flies N390DM out of Lakefield (CQA) giving primary flight instruction. He also flies N70245 out of Van Wert (VNW). When he's not flying you can find him teaching the Network Systems class at Tri Star Career Compact in Celina. He sold N2573N in August 2010 and flew it to Grays Harbor, Washington (HQM) in thirty-six hours over four days.
Brent Richter -
Mike Schnell - Mike is a commercial pilot with single and multiengine land ratings who spends his days working as a Territory Sales Manager for Trouw Nutrition USA in Highland, IL, and his hours in the sky in N16EC based at AXV. His wife is Sharon and she is a Pharmicist at Joint District Memorial Hospital. They reside in New Breman and have two children, Kristy, who is in Bowling Green, and Joey, who is in Cincinnati, OH.
Rudy Schnidhorst -
Walt Vogel - I have built seven airplanes, the latest being a Savannah(N67VG). I started flying real airplanes in 1982. As a little boy, I built model airplanes and then later tried my hand at radio controlled planes. Throughout the years I've had many different aiplanes, more than I can almost count. I have flown to the four corners of the United States, sometimes for pleasure and sometimes ferrying planes, however, my real enjoyment comes from building them. I've worked with fiberglass, wood, tube and fabric, and combinations. This Savannah was probably the easiest plane to build, where the Velocity was the most complex. My other hobby is amateur radio where I hold the extra class license. I also have an interest in alternate types of energy - solar, wind, hydrogen, and photovoltiac.
Neil Winget -
Gene Will - Gene serves on the Auglaize Airport Authority and owns a 1968 E33 Bonanza (N8465N) and a 1995 Hatz CB-1 (N358GW), the fruit of his patience and labor. When he is not flying the Bonanza on business, he visits the nearby airports with the Hatz.
