At Westport Airport on Wichita’s west side (better known to some as Dead Cow International), airport owner Earl V. Long III is touching up an old flying friend, according to a recent AP story in USA Today.
Long was hired to turn the retired plane, a Twin Beech Model 18, into a public aviation monument. Long is a former owner of the plane, and his story is intertwined with its history, the AP reports.
Read the full story here.