Roger Smith and Tom Stevenson, owners

Based in Hillsboro. 

N9221P is a PA24-260 built in 1967. I became the third owner in 1976. The first owner lives in Seattle and called me two years ago hoping to buy it back. The second owner was a company called Sunset Corp. in Tacoma. I have no idea what they do. They had a professional pilot who flew it for them. He landed at Hillsboro one day and was asked when he bought fuel at the old Hillsboro Aviation if it was for sale. He said it should be because they don't fly it very much. It was brokered by them to a doctor named Burt Pattee who works with me at Tuality. He couldn't afford the whole price and asked me to go halves with him. We eventually went thirds and included an orthopedist from St. Vincent. He was somewhat dangerous for this airplane and we bought him out again. The full cost to Burt and I was $28,500. in 1976.

In the late 1980s Burt divorced the wife who liked to fly and remarried a much nicer lady, but she didn't like to fly. I bought Burt's interest with the run-out engine and bought a re-manned one and connected with Tom Stevenson here at the club and we have been a successful partnership ever since. We had Lloyd Ericcson do us a partnership agreement in 1976 that has stood the test of these events. 21 Poppa has had some new things added over the years and has been a dependable and economical flying machine that has made both of us a lot of
friends in the club and outside.

Roger Smith