6A COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL May 31, 2017
Friendly skies
Cottage Grove couple living their dream with matching planes
By Ben Sclair
For 23 years now, Donna Svoboda
and Dennis Reynolds have traveled the
country together, in different airplanes.
She in her Citabria, him in his Pacer.
For The Sentinel
No longer. Sort of.
After nearly four years of building Donna and Dennis will fl y the
skies in their matching – but different – Bearhawk Patrols.
Delivery of their kits was in February 2013 at their Cottage
Grove home. Dennis’ fi rst fl ight was on January 25, 2017 Donna
fl ew a day later on January 26. “The weather went sour on us,” said
Dennis. “So I fl ew mine Sunday and Donna fl ew hers the next day.”
So after four years of building, what was that fi rst fl ight like?
"Awesome. That's all can say. It was just awesome,” said Donna.
"I’ve been fl ying behind a 115 horse power Citabria for 23 years.
You couldn't slap that smile off my face.”
“After the fi rst fl ights, we both looked at each other and decided
that four years was well worth it,” continued Dennis.
Prior to building their Patrols, Donna had no aircraft building
experience while Dennis recovered and converted his Tri-Pacer to a
Pacer back in the 1980s. And “I’ve been building a Mustang II for
too long a time. It’s still not fi nished.”
The pair approached their Patrols like a job. "The four years was
pretty much every day,” noted Donna. "When you approach a proj-
ect like that, you know it's huge. But I had no idea how huge. I told
myself, this is my job. I'm going to get up and I'm going to go to
work, and go out there about nine o'clock. We'd come back at fi ve,
every day.”
It helps that both are retired. Donna from a local power company
in Michigan where she fl ew pipeline patrol in a Cessna 185 “which
was an awesome way to earn a paycheck.” Dennis retired after 37
years with the Chrysler Corporation.
Aside from visiting a couple of newborn babies and attending
a funeral back in Michigan, Donna and Dennis worked the builds
nearly every day.
“No vacations,” continued Donna. “I wanted this done and fl ying.
I’m not a builder, I’m a fl yer.”
When Donna and Dennis completed a task on one Patrol, they
immediately moved over to the other one to complete the same task.
They found that to be the most effi cient use of the experience they
were gathering.
The only challenge the duo ran in to was painting. “That’s a sore
subject,” noted Donna.
“I think that was the most painful part of the whole process,”
continued Dennis. “We’ve discovered that if we had to make a
living painting, we’d starve.”
Sadly, for them, they hired out the painting after four months of
trying to make it work. Donna noted, the paint is anyone’s “fi rst
impression of the plane,” and they wanted it to look sharp.
THE PLANES
Why'd you select the Patrol? "Dennis’ investigating found the
Patrol,” said Donna. “He pretty much talked me into building it, for
the purpose of the characteristics of slow fl ight and the fast speed
on the other end. Tandem seating was what we were looking for."
“We ordered the quick build kit with the quick build wings,”
said Donna. “I would never have done this if we had to do it from
scratch.”
“Having to build two airplanes, we wanted the best head start we
could get,” continued Dennis.
In the end, aside from paint color, the two Patrols are nearly iden-
tical. Donna doesn’t have a skylight, Dennis does. Dennis has an
ADS-B In receiver, Donna doesn’t. The planes differs in weight
by just two pounds.
Each Patrol has an ECI O-360 spinning a Whirlwind con-
stant-speed propeller and “they just perform beautifully”.
COMMUNITY
Dennis noted that both Bob Barrows (the original designer of the
Patrol) and Mark Goldberg (owner of Bearhawk Aircraft) provided
invaluable help to Donna and Dennis. "Any questions we had or
any issues, they were quick to give advice or help us out.”
"There’s also a very active Bearhawk forum that you can get just
about any question answered by someone who's been there before
you,”said Dennis. "That’s a great helpful."
No dust will be collecting on the Patrols this year. Donna and
Dennis plan to join Patrol designer Bob Barrows and othersat
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Next summer… "We've been wanting to do an Alaska trip and
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The guy who bought Dennis’ Pacer is in Alaska and they’re
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Regardless, it is easy to hear the excitement in their voices.
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