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Pietenpol Field Hangar

Pietenpol Field Hangar, moved to EAA Airventure Museum Pioneer Field in 1984. Photograph by Wikimedia Commons user FlugKerl2.

Pietenpol Air Camper

Pietenpol Air Camper G-OHAL, Continental C90-14F powered, built 2008, flying at Old Warden on September 7, 2008. Photograph taken by Wikimedia Commons user TSRL.

Pietenpol Air Camper

Home-built Pietenpol Air Camper (UK registration G-BUCO) at Kemble Airfield, Gloucestershire, England. Photograph taken by Wikimedia Commons user Arpingstone.

When Bernard Pietenpol started to build airplanes in his Cherry Grove workshop, he had never actually piloted one. He only learned to fly once he had built his first plane. Nevertheless, Pietenpol's popular designs for lightweight, easy-to-construct airplanes made him the "father of the homebuilt aircraft movement."

Reverend John Sornberger's car

Photograph of a car straddling a railroad track. The car was used to transport Reverend John Sornberger to lumber camps, c.1930.

Carlson kiln

A Milwaukee Road train pulls up to G.A. Carlson's limestone kiln, still in existence today, on the Mississippi River side of Barn Bluff, c. 1895. Red Wing became known as Minnesota's "Lime Center" in the 1870s as local quarrying firms and their kilns reduced limestone to lime.