Pictures of the day: The last toy to go

By General Aviation News Staff · June 22, 2015 ·

John Watkins sent in this collection of a “random selection of pictures taken from my PA18 Super Cub,” he thought our readers would find interesting.

The first is his 1976 PA18 that he’s owned for 33 years, what he calls “the last toy to go.”

#1. taken approximately 500 mi. south of the US border at the Sea of Cortez...May 2013 — This photo was taken approximately 500 miles south of the US border at the Sea of Cortez in May 2013.

#2 approximately 80 miles south of the Artic Circle following the abandoned Canol Pipe Line between Norman Wells, NWT and Whitehorse in the Yukon July 2014 — This was taken approximately 80 miles south of the Artic Circle following the abandoned Canol Pipe Line between Norman Wells, NWT, and Whitehorse in the Yukon in July 2014

#3 Anza Borrego State Park in the lower California desert...December 2014 — This was shot in December 2014 at Anza Borrego State Park in the lower California desert.

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J. Gary Hall says

June 23, 2015 at 11:19 am

I learned to fly in a super cub at Orange County airport in 1958 practicing over mile square park airport for safety and following the bean rows to crab against the wind and also a new Cessna 150 metal airplane in Tucson at school, Wow
Richard Warner says

June 23, 2015 at 5:22 am

Love the pictures!!!!! The Super Cub is one of my two favorite airplanes. The other is the Cessna 180.