A few weeks back I had the opportunity to spend a bit of an afternoon photographing the Mishawaka Pilots Club Airport, a small airport outside of Elkhart, for a community section feature. While I was there, the club’s president, Dee Davis, took me up for a few laps around the airport in the air.
![Mishawaka Pilots Club Airport Dee Davis, club president of the Mishawaka Pilots Club Airport, circles around the airport during a flight on Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2012, near Elkhart. (James Brosher/South Bend Tribune)](https://www.brosher.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/20121114MishawakaPilotsClub0084.jpg)
![Mishawaka Pilots Club Airport Tom May, the airport manager, circles over a neighborhood bordering the Mishawaka Pilots Club Airport on Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2012, near Elkhart, Ind. (James Brosher/South Bend Tribune)](https://www.brosher.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/20121114MishawakaPilotsClub0195.jpg)
![Mishawaka Pilots Club Airport The Mishawaka Pilots Club Airport is seen from the air on Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2012, just outside of Elkhart. The airport includes a paved runway (left to right in frame) and a grass runway (top to bottom in frame). (James Brosher/South Bend Tribune)](https://www.brosher.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/20121114MishawakaPilotsClub0063.jpg)
![Mishawaka Pilots Club Airport A wooded area southeast of Baugo Bay is seen from the air on Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2012, between Osceloa and Elkhart. (James Brosher/South Bend Tribune)](https://www.brosher.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/20121114MishawakaPilotsClub0114.jpg)
![Mishawaka Pilots Club Airport After a flight, Dee Davis cleans a few bugs off the windshield of his plane on Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2012, at the Mishawaka Pilots Club Airport just outside of Elkhart. Davis is the club president. (James Brosher/South Bend Tribune)](https://www.brosher.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/20121114MishawakaPilotsClub0006.jpg)
jim heater says
so kool to see i remember my uncle forrest lee milbourn started out with you back when you first opened he had an old piper cub i think have tons of old slide of the plane my dad and him would go to rockford illinios for shows and once rolled off the runway in to a corn feild