Impatient Virgin? taxis out to begin a flight demonstration at Paine Field Aviation Day 2015. Virgin? is a combat veteran, which flew missions in the skies of Normandy on D-day.
An almost impossibly shiny T-28 Trojan takes off from Paine Field. I was not able to find the owner, but this aircraft flies with the Cascade Warbirds group.
I love it when the 160th SOAR comes to public events. This MH-60M belongs to Charlie Company of the 4th Battalion, based at Joint Base Lewis McChord. This bird and an MH-47G came up for Paine Field Aviation Day 2015.
With Mr. John Sessions at the controls, HFF's Spitfire prepares to take to the skies for the first (and last) time this summer. It will soon be crated up and shipped to England to participate in a Battle of Britain Memorial Flight.
VP-60 "Totems", NAS Whidbey Island, Washington. My friend, Lt. Scott Shea, pilots this classic submarine hunter on final approach to runway 16R at PAE during one of a pair of touch-and-go approaches. Thanks for visiting me, sir!
A combat veteran, Upupa Epops is now owned and operated by the Flying Heritage Collection, and is routinely flown in the skies above Everett, Washington in the summer months.
Betty Jane comes in after a revenue flight during a weekend Free Fly Day at Paine Field in Everett. You can see several 787 Dreamliner tails in the background.