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HondaJet Makes Surprise Visit To Des Moines<br />
DES MOINES, IOWA – The much-anticipated HondaJet<br />
visited Des Moines Flying Service, March 16, 2013, while<br />
conducting cold weather tests. Certification of the $4.5<br />
million bizjet is expected in 2014. Once certified, HondaJet<br />
<strong>Midwest</strong> at Aurora Municipal Airport in Sugar Grove, Illinois,<br />
will receive one of the first aircraft for customer delivery.<br />
HondaJet <strong>Midwest</strong> serves the states of Illinois, Iowa,<br />
Indiana, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska,<br />
North Dakota, South Dakota, Ohio and Wisconsin, and<br />
is a subsidiary of Des Moines Flying Service, Inc. (www.<br />
HondaJet<strong>Midwest</strong>.com).<br />
Honda Aircraft Company is headquartered at Piedmont<br />
Triad International Airport in Greensboro, North Carolina. q<br />
Aircraft<br />
Des Moines Flying<br />
Service CEO John<br />
Lowe (left) and his<br />
wife, Linda, welcome<br />
HondaJet test pilot,<br />
Stefan Johansson<br />
(center), to Des<br />
Moines, Iowa.<br />
Glenn Kinneberg of Spring Grove, Minnesota, converted his 1941<br />
Ercoupe to mount on a three-wheeled golf cart, powered by an<br />
electric motor to run the propeller and rotating beacon. “Snoopy” goes<br />
along for the ride! Kinneberg uses his “Golfcoupe,” as he calls it, to<br />
promote aviation in community parades and to entertain people in the<br />
campground at EAA AirVenture, Oshkosh, Wis.<br />
Tecnam P2008<br />
The Ultimate LSA<br />
Minnesota Farmer Finds Humor<br />
In Modifying Aircraft<br />
SPRING GROVE, MINN. – Retired farmer Glenn<br />
Kinneberg has been flying for 66 years, and lives on a farm<br />
in Spring Grove, Minnesota, which his great grandfather<br />
homesteaded in 1856. Kinneberg has had an airstrip on the<br />
farm since 1947, where he bases his Piper PA-11, which<br />
he bought new in 1947. Kinneberg has been a member of<br />
the “International Flying Farmers” since 1947, and is past<br />
president of the Minnesota Flying Farmers of which he is<br />
currently Region Five Director. Kinneberg is a veteran of the<br />
U.S. Air Force.<br />
Kinneberg wrote a book about his flying called “Flaps Up.”<br />
In 2012, he flew to EAA AirVenture in Oshkosh, Wisconsin<br />
with 185 Piper Cubs, and got the oldest pilot award and<br />
an award for owning his airplane longer than anyone else<br />
there…65 years.<br />
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48” Wide Cabin • 120 Kts Cruise • 600-Mile Range<br />
For more information or a demo ride call<br />
Mark 507-327-9465 - <strong>Midwest</strong> Tecnam Sales<br />
JUNE/JULY 2013 MIDWEST FLYER MAGAZINE 35
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