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PCToday Photo Gallery - 'Retired' Forest Service Plane Added to College Fleet

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A 1981 Beech BE-58P Baron, retired from the U.S. Forest Service, ended its final flight with a landing at the Williamsport Regional Airport in Montoursville late Friday morning, Acquisition of the twin-engine plane, to be used for instruction at Penn College's Lumley Aviation Center, was announced last fall. William P. "Scott" Welch, a licensed pilot and an instructor of diesel equipment technology at the college, made the whirlwind trip from Boise, Idaho, stopping overnight Thursday in Moline, Ill., (the flight was approved for daylight only), before taking off there at about 8:30 a.m.

— Photos by Tom Wilson, writer/editor
 


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William P. "Scott" Welch, center; talks with Robert M. Werkmeister, assistant professor of aviation; and Colin W. Williamson, dean of transportation technology.

William P. "Scott" Welch "unpacks" from his flight home

Students swarm around the Beech Baron after it taxied to a halt outside the Lumley Aviation Center.

Lumley
Aviation Center

Feb. 3, 2006

Latest instructional aircraft attracts close-up attention

Tail evidences U.S. Forest Service provenance

A student takes full opportunity to peek inside