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Since my retirement in 2001 and not flying any
missions for Security Alert, Inc. anymore, all the trips in 9473V are for pleasure now. Lynn and I fly to Branson, Mo. two
or three times a year to see a couple of shows and stop off at Gaston's Trout Resort on the way back for a couple of
days of just lazing around and doing some Trout fishing.
We can be found in St. Louis three or four times a year visiting
families and taking in a Cardinal ball game. We park at Jet-corp at Spirit of St. Louis airport sometimes, they
have plenty of parking space, rental cars and quick service. Other times we will land at Creve Cour airport
if family is picking us up and we don't need a rental car.
We go to Conroe, Texas (Houston area) a couple of times to visit
my brother John. We make a Florida trip usually in January or February to the Ft. Myers area for some warm weather and golf.
We go on a lot of one or two day trips during the summer, we may go to New orleans or Destin Flordia, spend the night and
return the next day, or fly up to Nashville for lunch and return the same day. 9473V is a pretty speedy little craft it
makes places like Destin about a two hr flight, St. Louis about an hour and half. The other main trip
we always take is the mooney aircraft owners and pilot assn. convention it has been in San Antonio and Las Vegas for
the last four years. It will be in Kerrville, Texas this year, we are sure to make this trip as it will take us to the Mooney
Factory Where 9473V came off the assembly line in 1970.
The following photos are places we have recently visited in our Mooney.

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| Approaching Greers Ferry Lake at 2500msl and bogies at twelve o'clock, half mile |
| GREERS FERRY LAKE & BONDAIR STRIP |

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| LOOKING SOUTH AT 1500 MSL |
| SHORT FINAL 36, BONDAIR STRIP, GREERS FERRY LAKE |

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| A BEAUTIFUL PLACE |

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| Flare for landing |

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| Roll out |

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| PARKED AT GREERS FERRY LAKE |

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| CAMPED AT OSHKOSH, 2002, WITH MOONEY CARAVAN GROUP (80 MOONEYS) |
Houston Tx flight

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| Frank camped at Oshkosh, 2002 |
| HOME SAFELY FROM MAPA CONVENTION 2000, |

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| LYNN CALLING KIDS TO LET THEM KNOW WE MADE IT HOME FROM SAN ANTONIO OK WITH THE "BEST OF SHOW AWARD" |
AERIAL VIEW STINSON FIELD, SAN ANTONIO
| DYERSBURG AIRPORT |

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| FRANK AFTER A BIG LUNCH AT "MARY LOU'S " CAFE |
MORE TRAVELS AND PLACES OF INTEREST
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