My dad's old flight jacket

It's been decorated in Hundred Horse Air Force colors. (No, this is not a photoshopped image)
He painted the logo on, and is wearing it in the photo.
If you have an old flight jacket, maybe for the right amount of persuasion he might paint a logo on for you.

HUNDRED HORSE AIR FORCE CALENDAR

YOU SHOULD'VE GOTTEN ONE!
And hung it on a wall somewhere because they're all gone now!

BUT! There is a chance that a few more will be ordered....and soon...so if you want one....you should let us know soon!

Here's a photo of a line-up of aircraft at Hancock Field. This photo appears to have been taken from the large hangar that was to the east of where College Drive intersects Oak Street. This hangar had a 'tower cab' on it and is about at the mid-point and north side of the current Hancock College track. Several of the original Hancock Field hangars were moved from their original locations. Some are located to the west, on Oak street and a few are located at Santa Maria Airport, just to the northwest of the large airbase hangar where the aircraft paint shop is currently located.

In the aircraft line up is Hancock's Lockheed, a Gullwing Stinson, a Stinson 105, a Monocoupe and an Aeronca Chief.

HEY! I got off my duff and added another photo, a view of Hancock Field looking northeast.
I am suspecting that there was some darkroom trickery done to add the majestic clouds in this and several of the other photos in this series . The reason is that one of these photos in particular has big clouds over the hills but there aren't any big shadows from those clouds.
The round topped hangar on the left in this view (which still exists and is over on Oak Street, to the northwest of Hancock College) can be seen in the film THE SPIRIT OF ST. LOUIS starring Jimmy Stewart. The 2 hangars immediately to it's right serve as a cafe in a scene in the film. The buildings further down to the right appear in the film as a military flight training field.

RARE OLD PHOTOS

As mentioned below here's another photo.
Seen from the Lockheed is Hancock's Staggarwing Beechcraft with the door removed for this photo flight.

If you have good eyes you can make out the photographer sitting in the door of the Staggarwing.

Here's the view from the Staggarwing of the Lockheed as they approach the coastline west of Santa Maria. I'm guessing by the look of the hills and dunes below that they are over the Guadalupe area .

RARE OLD PHOTOS

About 10 years ago I was given access to some photos of Hancock Field, and photographs of Captain G. Allan Hancock's Aircraft.
There are air-to-air photos taken from his Beechcraft Staggarwing of one of his Lockheed's, in flight over the Santa Maria Valley.
There are photos of Hancock and his fellow pilots.
The pictures came from a photo album that was given to a friend of ours by Marian Hancock. Our friend worked for the Hancocks at Rosemary Farms east of Santa Maria.
There are a total of 19 images in this series of photos. I have never seen these pictures anywhere but in this album.

KLPC ROTATING BEACON LIGHTING CEREMONY

Recently (a relative term which covers any period of time within the last 6 months give or take) a contingent of the HHAF headed south for the KLPC ROTATING BEACON RE-LIGHTING AND RE-DEDICATION CEROMONIES which the local paper reported to be taking place at the good old Lompuque Aerodrome.

It seems that the rotating beacon at Lompuque had been out of service for just about a year and was going to be re-lit and put into service, and so it was decided that this would be a convenient excuse to go flying. The 180 was fired up and we headed south at dusk to venture over for the grand ceremonies.

Upon arrival we found ourselves as the only participants in attendance, not another soul to be seen on the airport grounds. A good time was had by all, admiring the shiny new beacon once again silently spinning high atop it's tower. So after 20 minutes of staring up at the beacon, we flew back home.