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Who are these guys?
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are a group of individuals with over 90,000 hours
combined flight experience who are passionate
about Piper aircraft. We’ve spent the last
many years running a member organization for Piper
owners and listening to owners and pilots like
you. Our experience led us to believe that there
was a need for a really superior organization
for owners and pilots of Piper aircraft and, with
a little help from our friends; we set out to
create the ultimate organization.
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The Staff
Piper Flyer Association
Phone: 920-867-2800
Fax: 920-867-2805
Contact Information:
Website Assistance - E-Mail
the Webmaster
Technical Support - E-Mail
Technical Support
Parts Locating - E-Mail
Parts Locator
Membership Services - E-mail
Membership Services
Editorial Questions - E-mail
the Publisher
Jennifer Dellenbusch - E-Mail
Jennifer
Trevor Janz - E-mail
Trevor
Jennifer Dellenbusch (Founder)
has over 24 years of executive experience including
many years of experience as Executive Director
of a Piper member organization. Certified Public
Accountant. Eight parachute jumps out of (mostly)
perfectly good airplanes. Jennifer is originally from Los
Angeles, but now lives in Wisconsin. (Don’t
ask.)
E-Mail
Jennifer
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Piper Flyer Association Co-Founder Trevor Janz grew up around airports while his father and uncle flight instructed. Trevor soloed at age 16, received his private pilot certificate at age 17 and attained his instrument rating at age 18. All of Trevor's instrument training was done in a PA-28-151 Warrior, with his high performance signoff in a Piper Arrow IV. Trevor also has numerous hours in Cherokee Six 260s and 300s. Trevor's career in aviation marketing and advertising has spanned over 20 years, and he continues to fly single engine aircraft. Trevor resides in Waupaca, Wis. (35 miles NW of Oshkosh) with his wife and two children.
E-Mail
Trevor
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Editor at Large
Thomas Block
has flown nearly 30,000 hours since his first hour of dual in 1959. In addition to his 36-year career as a US Airways pilot, he has been an aviation magazine writer since 1969 and a best-selling novelist. Block has been the owner of more than a dozen personal airplanes including an Aztec, Apache, Cherokee 235 and a Super Cub. In addition, Block has had six non-marque airplanes that ranged from two- and four-seat singles on through a light twin, an amphibian and a motor glider. |
Contributing Editors
Kevin Garrison’s aviation career began
at age 15 as a lineboy in Lakeland Florida.
He came up through general aviation and is currently
a senior 767 captain. When not frightening passengers,
Kevin plays tennis and lives on a horse farm
in Kentucky, where he writes unsold humor projects
and believes professional wrestling is real
and all else is bogus.
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Michael Leighton
is a 5,500-hour CFII/MEI/ATP and holds a type rating in CE-500 series business jets. He is a current NAFI Master Flight Instructor, a licensed and current A&P mechanic and a former FAA Accident Prevention Counselor. He is the assistant Chief Pilot of a Part 141 flight school and operates a Part 135 on-demand air charter company in South Florida. His influence for his articles comes from his own experience as an owner/pilot as well as an instructor. He has owned more than 87 aircraft including a J-3, PA-11, PA-12, PA-18, PA-23-160, PA-28-140, PA-28-180, PA-31 and PA-34-200T. |
Charles Lloyd has logged 7,900 hours since his
first flying lesson in 1954. He worked for Cessna
Aircraft in Citation Marketing and Finance for
16 years. Charles’ current day job is as
a Citation Excel Captain for a major fractional
aircraft ownership company. He owns a 1966 restored
Cessna 182 with a Garmin avionics installation
and other modifications. Any comments you have,
both the good and the “how can you write
that.” about his articles are welcome.
E-Mail
Charles
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Daryl Murphy has been writing about and flying
a variety of aircraft for 36 years. In addition
to Piper Flyer, his work appears in General Aviation
News and Aviation International News, and he has
written five aviation books and one on automobile
racing.
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John D. Ruley is an instrument-rated private pilot, a freelance writer specializing in science and technology and a mid-career grad student (via distance education) in the Space Studies program at the University of North Dakota. He’s also a volunteer pilot for LIGA International, which flies medical missions to sites in northwest Mexico, past president (and current vice-president) of the Modesto Pilots’ Association and a member of the board of directors of the Mission Doctors Association. Ruley has owned a PA-28-140 (Cherokee 140), a PA-28-180 (Cherokee 180) and a PA-28R-200 (Arrow II). |
Dale Smith has been in love with airplanes
and flying forever. A prolific aviation journalist,
along with Piper Flyer, Dale writes for Plane
& Pilot, Pilot Journal, Aviation Maintenance
Magazine, Avionics News, Professional Pilot, Aviation
Business Journal, Flight Training and other aviation
magazines. When he’s not writing fun stuff
about airplanes, Dale is also a principle partner
in Flying Boat Creative Services, an advertising
agency specializing in aviation.
E-Mail
Dale
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Photographers
Paul Bowen, a commercial photographer based
in Wichita, Kansas, has been shooting aerial photography
since 1972. He is credited with well over 700
magazine covers and countless advertising campaigns.
Paul and his wife Gail live on a lake in Augusta,
Kansas, with their children. Paul is best known
for his vortices aerials. His three coffee-table
books, Air to Air,, Volumes I and II and Air to
Air Warbirds, have gained critical acclaim.
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Austin Brown, owner of The Aviation Picture
Library has lived and worked in Europe, the Caribbean,
West Africa and the US and photographed extensively
in these areas since 1980, on the ground and in
the air. The Aviation Picture Library is a specialized
source of over 400,000 original transparencies
and prints covering all aspects of aviation.
E-Mail Austin
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Robb Gessert started flying gliders at age
14 and has since logged over 5,000 hours. Most
all of his time being flown in jets with the military,
corporate and airlines. He flies his 1946 Cessna
140, out of the Troy Airpark in Missouri, for
fun with his wife Lauren and two sons.
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