Jim Younkin

                                                 

                                                 

            Jim Younkin was an amazing man, who built an airplane with pieces he had bought at his local hardware store! As a young boy, Jim was interested and active with remote control model airplanes. Then he decided that if he could build a flying model plane, he could build a real flying airplane. And he did that a lot. As you heard in the interview, he didn’t restore many planes, because he built most of them! He learned to fly in a Piper Cub, a “real man’s airplane”, Jim says.

           In the 1930’s,the golden age of flight, there was a famous air racer called, “Mr. Mulligan”.  It won the Bendix Trophy, which was a famous first place air race trophy. Jim wanted to build an airplane, decided to build a replica of  “Mr. Mulligan”. He literally went to the hardware store, bought the necessary parts, and built an airplane! And it still flies today!

Jim passed away on May 13, 2019 at the age of 90.

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