Who are these guys?

We are a group of individuals with over 90,000 hours combined flight experience who are passionate about Piper aircraft. We’ve spent the last many years running a member organization for Piper owners and listening to owners and pilots like you. Our experience led us to believe that there was a need for a really superior organization for owners and pilots of Piper aircraft and, with a little help from our friends; we set out to create the ultimate organization.

The Staff

Piper Flyer Association
P.O. Box 381
Waupaca Municipal Airport (PCZ)
The Blue Hangar
Waupaca, WI 54981-0381
Phone: 920-867-2800
Fax: 920-867-2805

Contact Information:

Website Assistance - E-Mail the Webmaster
Technical Support - E-Mail Technical Support
Parts Locating - E-Mail Parts Locator
Membership Services - E-mail Membership Services
Editorial Questions - E-mail the Publisher
Jennifer Dellenbusch - E-Mail Jennifer
Trevor Janz - E-mail Trevor

Jennifer Dellenbusch (Founder) has over 24 years of executive experience including many years of experience as Executive Director of a Cessna member organization. Certified Public Accountant. Eight parachute jumps out of (mostly) perfectly good airplanes. Jennifer is originally from Los Angeles, but now lives in Wisconsin. (Don’t ask.) E-Mail Jennifer

Trevor Janz (Co-Founder) grew up around airports while his father and uncle flight instructed, soloed at 16 received his Private Pilot's License at the age of 17. Attained his instrument rating at age 18, while working at a local FBO and ran out of money...had to finish school and get a job. Trevor was director of sales and marketing at an aircraft exhaust system company and later sold advertising and was manager of member support of another Cessna member organization. Trevor continues to fly single engine aircraft and aspires to get that ME rating...someday. Trevor resides in Waupaca Wisconsin (35 miles NW of Oshkosh) with his wife and two children. E-Mail Trevor

  Editor at Large

Thomas Block has flown nearly 30,000 hours since his first hour of dual in 1959. In addition to his 36 year career as a US Airways pilot, he has been an aviation magazine writer since 1969, a best-selling novelist, and the owner of more than a dozen personal airplanes.

  Contributing Editors

Chuck Clapper is a 20,000 hour pilot whose first airplane was Cessna 170. Former Marine Corps fighter pilot who flew F-8'S in Vietnam. Combat decorated vet. Chief Pilot for Florida Airmotive, flew DC-3s and Beech 18s. Former airline pilot. Owned a North American T-6 Texan for 15 years. Raced at Reno. Rated in airplanes, ME, seaplanes, helicopter ME helicopter, instrument helicopter, CFIH, Typed in DC-3, Martin 202, 404, Citation, Saberliner 70 and 80. Owned a flight school. Holds an A&P license with inspection authorization. Is recognized by the FAA as a reglatory expert. Chuck lives with his wife Connie in Florida.

Norm Ellis Norman Ellis is an instrument-rated private pilot, who has flown twenty-three different general aviation aircraft types. His dad first introduced him to aviation in 1957 in the back of a Champ at Torrance Airport, California. Ellis comes from a family of aviators. His first job was in Orange County, CA, at the Air Museum owned by Frank Tallman and Paul Manz. Ellis has been a Mechanical Design Engineer Consultant for the past last 16 years and has been in the profession 28 years. He holds three Multi-STCs on five different Type Certificate aircraft that are certified on 88 aircraft with 30 more pending. E-Mail Norm

Kevin Garrison’s aviation career began at age 15 as a lineboy in Lakeland Florida. He came up through general aviation and is currently a senior 767 captain. When not frightening passengers, Kevin plays tennis and lives on a horse farm in Kentucky, where he writes unsold humor projects and believes professional wrestling is real and all else is bogus.

Kevin Knight learned to fly in north Texas in 1984 before heading to New Zealand for an academic fellowship. After logging 100 hours in the world's most beautiful country, he returned to the barren wastelands surrounding Dallas where he owns one-fourth of a 1970 Cessna Centurion. To pay for his instrument flying (and instruments), he publicizes medical technology breakthroughs and has written or photographed for more than 300 publications.

Michael Leighton is a 3,000 hour CFII/MEI/ATP and holds a type rating in CE-500 series business jets. He is a current and active flight instructor, a licensed A&P mechanic and a former FAA Accident Prevention Counselor. He operates a part 135 on-demand air charter company in South Florida. His influence for his articles comes from his own experience as both a pilot and an instructor.

Charles Lloyd has logged 7,900 hours since his first flying lesson in 1954. He worked for Cessna Aircraft in Citation Marketing and Finance for 16 years. Charles’ current day job is as a Citation Excel Captain for a major fractional aircraft ownership company. He owns a 1966 restored Cessna 182 with a Garmin avionics installation and other modifications. Any comments you have, both the good and the “how can you write that.” about his articles are welcome. E-Mail Charles

Daryl Murphy has been writing about and flying a variety of aircraft for 36 years. In addition to Cessna Flyer, his work appears in General Aviation News and Aviation International News, and he has written five aviation books and one on automobile racing.

John D. Ruley is an instrument-rated private pilot, and a freelance writer specializing in science and technology. He’s also a volunteer pilot for LIGA International, and past president of the Modesto Pilot’s Association. (www.ligainternational.org)

Dale Smith has been in love with airplanes and flying forever. A prolific aviation journalist, along with Cessna Flyer, Dale writes for Plane & Pilot, Pilot Journal, Aviation Maintenance Magazine, Avionics News, Professional Pilot, Aviation Business Journal, Flight Training and other aviation magazines. When he’s not writing fun stuff about airplanes, Dale is also a principle partner in Flying Boat Creative Services, an advertising agency specializing in aviation. E-Mail Dale

  Photographers

Paul Bowen, a commercial photographer based in Wichita, Kansas, has been shooting aerial photography since 1972. He is credited with well over 700 magazine covers and countless advertising campaigns. Paul and his wife Gail live on a lake in Augusta, Kansas, with their children. Paul is best known for his vortices aerials. His three coffee-table books, Air to Air,, Volumes I and II and Air to Air Warbirds, have gained critical acclaim.

Austin Brown, owner of The Aviation Picture Library has lived and worked in Europe, the Caribbean, West Africa and the US and photographed extensively in these areas since 1980, on the ground and in the air. The Aviation Picture Library is a specialized source of over 400,000 original transparencies and prints covering all aspects of aviation. E-Mail Austin

Robb Gessert started flying gliders at age 14 and has since logged over 5,000 hours. Most all of his time being flown in jets with the military, corporate and airlines. He flies his 1946 Cessna 140, out of the Troy Airpark in Missouri, for fun with his wife Lauren and two sons.