Lindy
Updated 8/6/2011
This is the page where I get to talk about myself. I won't go into to a lot of lifetime details, but I was born in Litchfield, IL in 1977. I have one sister who was born two years after me. She married a high school buddy of mine. They now have two kids, 1 and 3, to make me an uncle (Brit has a niece that is 10). My family moved to Florida from Illinois when I was two, lived there through half a year of first grade, and I've been back here in Illinois ever since. I went through school in Lincoln, IL, eventually graduating from Illinois State University, in Normal, IL with a Bachelor of Science in Art (funny huh!!). This is now where we live. Yes, it's Normal here...
While I was in college, I started working at the local FBO, Image Air as a line boy pumping fuel. I loved that job, and it helped me gain the knowledge I have today to do my current job. Back to that in a second. I worked the line for two and a half years before leaving the FBO for a brief stint (five months) working for a rental car company, so that I could be with my fiancé and her job. That got old quick (not my fiancé, the job!) and I went back to work for Image Air, driving an hour and a half each way, just to be back at the airport. We were married somewhere in this area...April 20th 2002 to be precise. YAY!! I had become the Line Manager at Image Air, which I did for two years. While entering my second year as the manager of that department, I went to talk to my boss (the owner) about working in the sales department. Well, he thought that was a great idea, and that I'd be good at it. Hmmm...did I make the right choice here?? Well, turns out I did and I have been the Aircraft Sales Manager for seven and a half years. I also had the chance to do a lot of flying in our company King Air 200 and Lear 35 for a while as a Part 135 charter co-pilot in the 200, Part 91 in the 35 as a co-pilot. The King Air was sold...I sold it...and I chose not to go to Lear school at that point because of the schedule of that airplane on charter as I'd be gone too much.
Ok, now to the point of this part of our website. I am a pilot and ground instructor. I hold an ASEL/AMEL Commercial rating with Instrument privileges (not current), with a Tailwheel endorsement and I currently have 1,000 hours of flight time. We have owned three airplanes, the first was a 1974 Piper Cherokee 140, which we owned with five partners for a little over a year. The second was a 1968 Piper Cherokee 180D, which we owned with three partners, again for a little over a year. We sold our share in that airplane so that we could start building our own. That airplane turned out to be a Van's RV-7.
As you now read this, the RV has been flying for almost a year, and I've had a blast flying it. But the time has already come to sell it. Why? Well, it makes more sense financially for us at this time, and I also want to build another airplane. So it's on to the next one...a Wittman Tailwind...plans are here, and I'm working on some shop modifications and collecting a few tools that I'll need for a tube/fabric/wood airplane. I'm really excited to started building again, and I'm ready to sell the RV to free up the budget a bit to get going on it!
So there you have it...a fresh update for now!
Check out the next page for pics of our previous airplanes.