Welcome
to the SNAG Website.
Latest website update
3/4/2010 Updated 2010 Fly-In Schedule -Upcoming
Events
(added Cannon Creek events)
Reminder, first fly in of 2010 is 12 March
at Shade Tree....
Lee Bottom Field, Sunday 1 Nov 09
Definition of Passionate!!!
This Month's SNAG Pilot in the Spotlight, "Dick"
McSpadden in front of his treasured 5318K.
(Paid SNAG members can download and print this picture...send it to Col
McSpadden w/ a self addressed stamped envelope, and he'll sign it for you!)
Son Richard indicated "he could've gotten closer, but didn't want to
mess up Dad's hair for the photo."
The Mississippi Mud Fiddle Flight Demonstration Team just prior to
"Smoke On"
Flight Lead Charles "Cool Hands" Wiggins; Dash 2 "Semper
Fi" Stan , and Lead Solo Bill "Fiddle One"
Ross.
Absent from photo....Flight Demo Team Announcer - Burt Zeller (but
he's in there somewhere)
SNAG
membership includes members from all walks of life, from
North to South, East to West, new owners, and owners who claim they were present when they topped off the tank of
the first Navion to roll off the assembly line. Though
varied in backgrounds and means, SNAG members share one
common bond - Navions - and a strong desire to keep these
grand bullwarks of aviation history flying safely, for
future generations.
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NATCHEZ FLY IN
PHOTO's by Lee and Jim Holmes
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The new Navion was a sight to behold in
1946.
From
Left
to Right - Allen, McSpadden, Midyette, Swanzy,
Austin, McMahon, Judy, Buchannan, Olwin,
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The
Navion aircraft was designed and built by North American
Aviation in 1945-1946 and later produced by the Ryan Aeronautical
Company. A total of 2349 Navion series aircraft were built
by these two companies. (Later TUSCO and other companies
produced variations and modifications to these aircraft.)
Navions promised an affordable introduction into personal
aircraft ownership to the many newly trained pilots
returning from WWII. The first flyaway price was $6100.00
with the 185HP Continental engine. Initial production
aircraft boasted 149mph cruising speed at 3500', range of
550 miles on 40 gallons of gas and a useful load of 1070
lbs including 4 passengers and 80 pounds of baggage.
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Some
aircraft were purchased by the U.S. Military used in a liaison
aircraft misson, and designated the L-17. More
information about these aircraft can be found at www.L-17.org
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Some SNAG members maintain their paint schemes in the
tradition of these military aircraft.
 
SNAG Pilot Bill Ross leads a formation to Natchez,MS
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Because the design and the development of the Navion aircraft was
primarily intended to satisfy the anticipated desires of the expected
numerous military pilots returning to the civilian community after WW
II, many SNAG aircraft paint schemes exclaim their personal tastes, and
are as varied and unique as their owners.
Additionally, a few SNAG members own the Navion
Rangemaster.
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Dick and Marilyn Olwin's Rangemaster.
And to round out the SNAG members' inventory of
aircraft....
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SNAG member Mr. Richard Buchanan is restoring the only
Model 72 built.
Riley Aircraft, Temco
Navions have also found service in foreign Air Force
inventories.
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SNAG Members
at
the SHADE TREE FLY IN - THEY KNOW WHAT THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT!!!
Front Row Left to Right
Dick Olwin, Kevin Domingue, Paul Wright
Second Row..(sort of a winding
row-We'll call it Top Gun Row)
Marylyn Olwin, Wanda Harrington, Ellen
Whitaker, SNAG Vice President - Robert Gaines,
Barbara Butler, James Harrington, Lee Holmes, and
Rusty Harrington
Back Row (barely standing row...we'll
call it...Irish Pub Row...and that's the row I'd be in!
had I been there)
Paul Young, Al Butler, Bob Swanzy, Wayne
Whitaker, SNAG President-Mitch Midyett -,Charlie
Allen, Bill Thornburg, Cecil Austin, and Waymon Bankston
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