One of our planes that tends to turn heads because of its somewhat unusual appearance is the Call Air A-2. The low wing plane was developed in Wyoming as a mountain ranch hand of sorts. There aren’t many of them around, and as far as we know, none of them have been cover models.
Well back in 1950, our A-2 made the cover of Flying magazine. There’s a great story about the plane as well.
And this isn’t our Call Air’s only brush with fame. The airplane is the actual plane flown by Kenneth Arnold when he reported seeing several unidentified flying objects near Mt. Rainier. Arnold’s reported sighting is the believed to be the first of a UFO in the United States and subsequent stories about him are the origination of the term ‘flying saucer.’
Personally, we prefer to fly the identifiable flying objects like the Call Air on nice summer evenings.
