My Dad (who happens to be my major hero and also my adventure buddy) flew for the Navy out of Tripler in Honolulu. He flew several types of planes but trained on the SNJ and, in fact, my all time favorite picture of him is one where he is standing in front of this very plane as a young pilot.

Since then Dad and I have made excursions to see one of the last remaining Constellations (which he also flew) and also visited an AT-Texan (close but no banana) at the EvergreenAviation Museum in Oregon. Finally, it dawned on me one day that the only plane he’d piloted for which Dad did not have a model was the SNJ. So you can imagine how happy I was to see it in your catalogue and the Navy version too! It looked just like the one in the picture of my Dad! So I bought it for his 75th birthday. Not only did you make my Dad really happy, even more so his loving daughter who finally found something to give him that he REALLY REALLY liked! Thanks so much for keeping our dreams alive and for your commitment to quality and detail.

- Denise Cline
Portland, Oregon