The last Kinner Sportwing flies again BY DENNIS K. JOHNSON MANY PILOTS-and likely all museum curators-believe that the last existing example of an antique aircraft should stay safe on the ground, preserved inside a darkened museum gallery. Certainly, it shouldn't be flying into the vagaries of wind and weather, susceptible to the reliability of antique aircraft engines. David Devries of Windham, New Hampshire, isn't one of those pilots. After finding the last existing Kinner Sportwing, a oneof-a-kind aircraft from the Golden Age of flight, he rescued it, had it restored, and then flew it home. This airplane will not be confined to a museum-not just yet. P H OT O G R A P H Y B Y M I K E F I Z E R 50 | AOPA PILOT January 2020