What's in a name?
I love this repaint! Flew in and out of Flabob a bunch of times in our Twin Beech and it never felt quite long enough. Someone said a C-47 flies like a Twin Beech on ludes, so if it wasn't too heavy.... Looking forward to trying it out.
Where did the name come from? In 1943, the little airstrip in Riverside CA was bought by Flavio Madariaga and his partner Bob Bogen. Flavio and Bob combined the letters of their first names to come up with "Fla Bob" which is how it was listed in the earliest airport directories. Then it became "Fla-Bob," then "FlaBob," and now "Flabob."
It was briefly known as the Flabob Air Terminal and Massage Parlor thanks to Flavio's sense of humor. Seems a balsa-wood barn had been built on the strip as a prop during the filming of the mid-70s The Amazing Howard Hughes, (Tommy Lee Joes' first big role) and Flavio pulled together some other odds and ends to create this picture.
