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Bernard Pietenpol knew about the Heath, but didn't base his design on it. The Heath has a wire braced steel tube fuselage instead of the wooden truss of the Pietenpol, and the Heath is quite a bit smaller and lighter, and only one seat. There are other notable differences as well, but both are...

Thanks to all for the input. As you can imagine the Pietenpol group is fairly close knit, and I know the Pietenpol in Sonoma, it belongs to Walt Bowe. Also I'm involved with the Golden Age Air Museum in PA and have flown their Pietenpol a number of times. I would guess that there are 15 to 20...

Gar is a good friend, and knows about the project. So here are a few opinion questions for the Model A crowd: We think the engine is the same one that was put on the airplane in 1934, so we want to keep as much of it as possible, but are there things that should be replaced as a matter of...

We now know that the Centilli brothers and Al Weller built the airplane, finishing in June, 1934, and had the standard Pietenpol landing gear, but added the non standard propeller spinner. It was yellow and black in a scheme copied from another popular homebuilt airplane of the time, the Heath...

Using the number 14143 we were able to check FAA records and found out that this airplane was built in Grand Rapids, Michigan in 1934 by two brothers, Charles and Walter Centilli, and as word spread in our airplane community somebody recognised the 'plane and said that there had been an article...

Now for the research part. I thought that the airplane looked familiar, and when I got back home I realised that there had been photos of that exact airplane posted on Facebook just a few weeks earlier. The color scheme was very unique, and the landing gear had been modified to be unlike any...

A friend of mine and I recently saved a 1934 Pietenpol Air Camper airplane and are in the process of rebuilding it to fly again. It showed up on a trailer at the Pietenpol fly-in at Brodhead, Wisconsin in July, and had we been there a day earlier we would have saved a lot of money. As it was we...