Santa Catalina – “26 miles across the sea … “, or so says the song. Can you say, “California, 50 years ago?” The one constant of the many trips I’ve made to the Airport in the Sky, KAVX, is peace.…

About a month and a half after I got my private pilot certificate (July 14, 1976 – still one of my favorite days in my life), I rented a Piper Cherokee from the FBO at an airport that no longer…