Lundberg Family.
John was the best pilot I ever had the pleasure to fly with, and he would have made a great instructor. This web page is dedicated to my good friends, John Lundberg and his family. I'll never forget their friendship and kindness.
Edited by David Barth December 2015. Photos were taken by David Barth, Sara Lundberg, and Linda Lundberg.
John, Amanda, and Josh Lundberg for local flight in a Cessna 172 from Jeffco Airport January 1984.
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| Amanda Lundberg with a Cessna 172. |
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| Amanda Lundberg. |
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John Lundberg preflighting the Cessna 172. In his right
hand, John holds a pitot tube cover that keeps
wasps from blocking the tube for the airspeed indicator. |
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John flew in the pilot's seat, I flew in the right
seat, Amanda sat behind John, and Josh sat behind me. |
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| Amanda Lundberg. |
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| Josh Lundberg. Cool sunglasses! |
John and Sara Lundberg on a flight in a Cessna 172 from Arapahoe Airport to Pueblo and La Junta, Colorado, April 1984.
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John preflights the plane while his daughter, Sara,
shows excitement for the flight. |
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| Me with John Lundberg. Photo by Sara Lundberg. |
In his right hand David holds a fuel testing tube used to make sure there is no water in the fuel tanks. John holds a checklist.
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| Sara walks from Flight Service with her Dad. |
Sara walks with her Dad from the flight service station at Arapahoe Airport after they filed a flight plan. Sara is carrying a clipboard with the flight plan information. John was an outstanding father who shared knowledge with his children, such as how to check the weather and file a flight plan.
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| Sara Lundberg, always in an upbeat, happy mood. |
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Sara petting a parrot at Flower Aviation in Pueblo.
The Lundberg family kept a pet Cockatoo at home. |
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Sara pets Flower Aviation's black cat.
The Lundberg family had a pet dog. |
John, his wife, Linda, and youngest daughter, Amanda, on a flight to the Platte Valley Airport in May 1984 for a picnic.
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John preflighted a Cessna 172 while his wife,
Linda, and youngest daughter, Amanda, looked on. |
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Jim Stewardson's 170 acre farm north of
Brighton, Colorado. |
Jim Stewardson also worked at Cobe Laboratories and was a good friend of John Lundberg and me. This view is looking to the southeast, and Jim's runway is in the center. It ran east-west.
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John, Amanda, and Linda at the Platte Valley
Airport for a picnic. |
Linda brought a lunch basket for us. The trip was an unusual treat for me. I never had a pilot friend like John and his family share so many fun times.
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| Old engine and rail cars. |
Just south of the airport a guy had an acreage where he collected old rail cars. He had laid a lot of track with the intent to open a railroad amusement park. By this time, the guy, whom I never met or or even saw, had passed away and the cars were in disrepair. Still, it was fun to walk around the area and imagine what might have been.
There was even a turntable for positioning engines for moving them into one of several maintenance rooms in the round house, but there was no round house. At the left is the engine house, but the roof was never completely shingled. Perhaps the guy ran out of money or passed away before it was finished. An engine and tender sat outside. I visited several times over the years and never saw evidence that anything ran. All of the rolling stock was in the same location on each visit.
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| Amanda stands in front of a railroad crossing sign. |
In the background, from left to right, are an old passenger coach, a box car, a caboose, and a water tank to supply water to the steam engine.
John and his wife, Linda, and I flew to the Limon Airport in June 1984 for a picnic.
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| John Lundberg preflighting a Grumman AA5A Cheetah. |
John is preflighting the Grumman AA5A Cheetah at Jeffco Airport prior to a flight with his wife, Linda, and me to Limon Airport for a picnic. It appears he is holding a checklist in his right hand.
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John and Linda at the Limon Airport on the Grumman
AA5A Cheetah plane in which John few us to Limon. |
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John and Linda at our picnic beside a building at
the Limon Airport. Linda packed a delicious
lunch for us. |
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| John and me at Limon. |
We are standing in front of the Grumman AA5A Cheetah at the Limon Airport after our picnic before flying back to Jeffco. Photo courtesy of Linda Lundberg.