Peter M Bowers Twenty Years On

Twenty years since his death Peter Bowers remains a strong prescence among aviation enthusiasts and historians through his many aviation reference books, articles and photographs, not to mention the Bowers Fly Baby homebuilt plane.

This is a fine Bowers photograph of four of his planes at Seattle c1959, two homebuilts and two Aeronca C-3s.
N1338N (2) the 1953 Story Experimental II was part-owned by Bowers and appears to have influenced his design for the Bowers Fly Baby homebuilt. 
N4940V (1) the 1954 Sorrell Biplane began life as the 1930 White Special and later the Smith Special before transformation by Hobart Sorrell.
The Aeroncas are N11291 (msn A-123) a 1931 C-3 and N13082 (A-246)  a 1933 PC-3.
The three pilots are unidentified, possibly fellow Boeing employees.

Ian Macdonald
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