Warbirds over the west
longboard crafted for him by Roberts Surfboards back in the day.Īfter Dave and Barbara got married, they lived in Torrance and later moved to Ventura. It was only recently that Dave sold the 10-ft. Dave says he learned the trick from an old surfer at Bluff Cove in Palos Verdes. One faded photo shows him doing a headstand while surfing in Ensenada. Also in his man cave is a large display of surf posters and photographs from his surfing days in Palos Verdes in the mid 1960s.
Dave says he flew to 21 different airports during those years, including Catalina Island and Big Bear.įlying wasn’t Dave’s only hobby as a youth. Then it was on to Hemet and back to Corona. One of Dave’s favorite flight paths took him from the Corona Airport, where the Cessna was kept, south to about where I-15 and Hwy 74 meet, then east over Canyon Lake and on to the French Valley airport where he would have lunch. The man was a certified flight instructor and had his own Cessna 172 that he and Dave, or Dave himself, took up for day flights around Southern California. But he is thankful for the decade of flying he had before then with a coworker from a company he worked for in Temecula. An enlarged photograph of a small plane’s cockpit hangs above his desk, providing flights of fancy to distract him from work or TV.įor health reasons, Dave had to give up flying about four years ago. On the wall of the man cave is a propellor a friend bought for Dave from a garage sale.
Dave obtained the seats from an aircraft “boneyard” in the high desert. Barbara isn’t a fan of flying in small aircraft but has heartily endorsed Dave’s interest over the years, creating tasteful displays of memorabilia to honor his hobby.Īnd if she’s so inclined, she can sit with Dave in “first class” any time she pleases – that is, if she wants to venture into his man cave at the back of their three-car garage to join him in a set of double seats from the first class section of a 747 aircraft.
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He learned to fly and received his own pilot’s license soon after graduating from high school. David and Barbara Spraul humbly acknowledge the gratitude of the community for their sponsorship of WarBirds West, a San Diego-based salute team that flew six passes of Beechcraft T-34 Mentor aircraft over Canyon Lake on November 11.ĭave is the one who loves airplanes. It’s no surprise that the sponsors of the Canyon Lake Veterans Day Ceremony flyover are fans of flight – well, one of them at least.