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Fly Girls

Reminder Publications Assistant Editors Katelyn Gendron and Courtney Llewellyn rode "shotgun" in a fully restored 1942 PT-23A, piloted by Harland Avezzie, vice president of the Pioneer Valley Military and Transportation Museum's Board of Directors.
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Reminder Assistant Editors Katelyn Gendron and Courtney Llewellyn took a 'vintage' look at the Pioneery Valley in a fully restored 1942 PT-23A courtesy of P.V.M.T.M. Vice President Harland Avezzie.
Reminder Publications photos by Katelyn Gendron and Courtney Llewellyn
Members of the P.V.M.T.M.'s Board of Directors are hoping to build a hangar, similar to the one here, that will house functional modes of military and civilian transportation.
Reminder Publications photo by Courtney Llewellyn
Harland Avezzie, vice president of the Pioneer Valley Military and Transportation Museum, gives Reminder Publications Assistant Editor Katelyn Gendron a thumps-up before taking off with her coworker, Reminder Publications Assistant Editor Courtney Llewellyn. Avezzie found the 1942 PT-23A aircraft in Somers, Conn., over 20 years ago. It took him four years to restore it.
Reminder Publications photo by Katelyn Gendron
Up, up and away...Katelyn and Harland take off from Barnes Airport.
Reminder Publications photo by Courtney Llewellyn
P.V.M.T.M. Vice President Harland Avezzie's fully restored 1942 PT-23A aircraft.
Reminder Publications photo by Courtney Llewellyn
Reminder Assistant Editor Courtney Llewellyn prepares for takeoff.
Reminder Publications photo by Katelyn Gendron
P.V.M.T.M. President Leo Dube uses all his might to crank up the 1942 PT-23A aircraft for takeoff.
Reminder Publications photo by Katelyn Gendron
(L-R) P.V.M.T.M. President Leo Dube, Assistant Editor Katelyn Gendron and P.V.M.T.M. Vice President Harland Avezzie pause for a photo before takeoff.
Reminder Publications photo by Courtney Llewellyn