{"id":3310,"date":"2014-03-15T15:49:27","date_gmt":"2014-03-15T20:49:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/52.15.223.162\/?p=3310"},"modified":"2014-03-15T15:54:43","modified_gmt":"2014-03-15T20:54:43","slug":"n79ag-arrives-in-midland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/highskywing.org\/?p=3310","title":{"rendered":"N79AG Arrives in Midland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>N79AG, a 1952 Beech Model D18S, arrived in Midland this afternoon after a brief flight from the now-defunct New Mexico Wing in Hobbs. \u00a0The pilot for the ferry flight was Col <strong>James Martin,<\/strong> who owns a similar aircraft. \u00a0His co-pilot was Col <strong>Bob Keating<\/strong>. \u00a0The chase crew, in our T-28, consisted of Col <strong>Mark Haskin<\/strong>, pilot, and Col <strong>Michael Clinton<\/strong>, photographer\/videographer\/assistant to the pilot\/jack of all trades. A special thanks to Col <strong>Steve Clinton<\/strong> for transporting the ferry crew to Hobbs in his personal vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to all those involved in bringing this airplane to Midland. \u00a0It&#8217;s fate is uncertain, but HQ should be reassigning the aircraft in the near future.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/52.15.223.162\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/DSC_9534.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3311\" alt=\"DSC_9534\" src=\"http:\/\/52.15.223.162\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/DSC_9534-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"http:\/\/highskywing.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/DSC_9534-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/highskywing.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/DSC_9534-1024x680.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>N79AG arriving.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/52.15.223.162\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/DSC_9560.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3312\" alt=\"DSC_9560\" src=\"http:\/\/52.15.223.162\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/DSC_9560-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"http:\/\/highskywing.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/DSC_9560-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/highskywing.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/DSC_9560-1024x680.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>L to R: Col&#8217;s Michael Clinton and Mark Haskin, chase plane; Col&#8217;s Bob Keating and James Martin, ferry crew.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>N79AG, a 1952 Beech Model D18S, arrived in Midland this afternoon after a brief flight from the now-defunct New Mexico Wing in Hobbs. \u00a0The pilot for the ferry flight was Col James Martin, who owns a similar aircraft. \u00a0His co-pilot &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/highskywing.org\/?p=3310\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/highskywing.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3310"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/highskywing.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/highskywing.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/highskywing.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/highskywing.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3310"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/highskywing.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3318,"href":"http:\/\/highskywing.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3310\/revisions\/3318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/highskywing.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/highskywing.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/highskywing.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}