We sold a family heirloom last weekend with mixed emotions.
My wife's previous husband (he was a friend who died young in an airplane crash...long story), had built this in 1989 and won many awards with it and photos of it are still used in various advertisements.
He last flew it in 1995 just prior to his death. It has been sitting in our hangar since then and has been started regularly but not flown. For various corny reasons, I never flew it. Someone heard about it recently and made us an offer. My wife decided to let it go and use the money for our daughter's (my step daughters actually) college education.
It was a sad day when they picked it up. We shot a bunch of pictures of it with my daughters, wife and my daughter's grandmother before it left.
We kept all the awards, calenders, print articles, t-shirts and ect that were associated with it over the years, along with the matching minature pedal Pitts I built for the girls when I first became their new dad 10 yrs ago.
I must admit we ALL teared up as it took off from our runway for the last time. It was meant to fly, but it also was kind of like a keepsake for my wife and daughters.
