I thought I would throw in a couple of pictures of the other planes I fly while I'm on a computer that has them, and add a quick bio for the curious.

First up is my 1965 7ECA Citabria, s/n 290 which I have had for about three years. It was upgraded to a 150hp O-320 decades ago so it is comparable to a 7GCAA. It has been a great aircraft for me and if I were able to perform my own maintenance, inspections and upgrades I would not be building a Kitfox. I was actually at the threshold of buying a kit three years ago when I realized I could buy a flyable aircraft and just put gas in it for less than the cost of a kit without engine/prop/avionics. No regrets, I've put a bunch of 100LL through this plane and it has treated me very well.

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Next up is the T-6, or more properly an SN5. Oddly I took this picture over a year before I ever met the owner or knew I would be flying it. At the time I was flying my uncle's BT-13 and this plane caught my eye because the paint scheme was similar to a T-6 my uncle restored when I was a kid. The green stripes indicate it was an instrument trainer. The cool thing about this particular warbird is that the paint scheme is not only authentic, it is in the livery that this exact airplane had when it last served the US Navy in 1956. After putting somewhere north of 120 hours on the BT-13 we sold it to a guy in Texas and I flew it down there with him.
This SNJ popped up on the used market here in our state so we went and looked at it. I have only put about 20 hours on this aircraft. It had some radio issues that kept me from attending some of the airshows I wanted to get to, and we were also trying to flip it (for a T-28) but the buyer backed out in the end. I have since upgraded the radios to a GNC255 and a Stratus ESGi transponder. I liked the transponder setup well enough that I installed the exact same unit in my Citabria.
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Me, I'm in my 50s. I've been flying for about 24 years. I became a CFI in the early 2000s and made a go of it for a while. I thought I wanted to live out of a 21" carry-on for days at a time but ended up going back to a desk job and have now worked for a very large airplane company for the past 13 years. My career has been mostly CNC programming, aerospace tool design and more recently flight deck design. My current job places me as a link between the design engineers and the pilots. Prior to coming to my current employer I worked for various suppliers. I worked hands on with factory workers on sheet metal, machined extrusion and composite parts. I have also been building and flying model airplanes since I was a 2nd grader.

That's me in a nutshell I guess.