1977 Bowers Fly Baby 1A, c/n 600 S, C-GJTS, Tom Staples

1977 Bowers Fly Baby 1A, c/n 600 S, C-GJTS, Tom Staples at the Annual Duncan Flying Club Fly-In, Duncan Airport (DUQ/CAM3), Duncan, Vancouver Island, B.C., Canada on Sunday, June 10, 1979

1977 Bowers Fly Baby 1A, c/n 600 S, C-GJTS, Tom Staples, Victoria, Vancouver Island, B.C., Canada, based at Victoria International Airport (YYJ/CYYJ), North Saanich, near Sidney, Vancouver Island, B.C.

• powered by one 65-hp Teledyne Continental A65-8 four-cylinder, horizontally-opposed, air-cooled piston engine with fixed-pitch two-blade wood Sensenich propeller
• fixed main landing gear and tail wheel
• single-seat, open cockpit light amateur-built
• built by Tom Staples from a design by Peter M. Bowers, Seattle, Washington, USA
• registered to Tom Staples on August 29, 1977
• awarded Grand Champion Custom-Built Classic at the 2000 NWEAA (North West EAA) Fly-In, Arlington Municipal Airport (KAWO/AWO), Snohomish County, Washington, USA
• refitted with one 85-hp Teledyne Continental C85-12 four-cylinder, horizontally-opposed, air-cooled piston engine with fixed-pitch two-blade McCauley propeller
• refitted with a canopy
• active

[Agfa Agfamatic 100 sensor viewfinder 126 cartridge film camera, 42.1-mm f/11 lens; Agfa Agfacolor Special CNS 126 (20 DIN/ASA 80) 20-exposure colour negative cartridge film]

© Copyright photographs by Stephan Alexander Scharnberg, June 1979