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10.00" x 6.50"
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10.00" x 6.50"
Air Oregon Metroliner Wood Print
by James B Toy
$55.00
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Air Oregon Metroliner wood print by James B Toy. Bring your artwork to life with the texture and added depth of a wood print. Your image gets printed directly onto a sheet of 3/4" thick maple wood. There are D-clips on the back of the print for mounting it to your wall using mounting hooks and nails (included).
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After airline deregulation went into effect in the 1970s, United airlines... more
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NOTE: The logo watermark will not appear on purchased products.
After airline deregulation went into effect in the 1970s, United airlines dropped service to Oregon's capitol city, Salem. A small regional airline came in to fill the void. Air Oregon served Salem for several years using small turboprop Swearingen Metroliners, which were quite popular with commuter airlines at that time. Most of the Air Oregon fleet were white with yellow, orange, and red stripes.The brown, white, and green colors on this particular airplane were introduced later in the airline's history, and as near as I can tell it was the only Metroliner in the fleet that had this color scheme, but it was the first one I saw, so I assumed they all looked like this. I made this image in February 1980 at McNary Field in Salem. The plane was just about to depart, one engine is running, while the left one will be started momentarily.
I flew on Air Oregon just once. Much to my disappointment my plane was an e...
About James B Toy
In the fall of 1959, Mr. Toy entered this world at a place called Carmel on California's Monterey Peninsula. Nine years later his family pulled up stakes for the rain-soaked city of Salem, Oregon where he never quite fit in. When he was 12, he and his mother viewed an exhibit of photographs by a Salem newspaper photographer, which inspired him to take his first photography class. During his teenage years he gradually developed his eye for composition and his skills with light and exposure. Though he did not pursue photography as a career, he has continued to document his observations of the world on small frames of film. In 1984, Mr. Toy and his wife Heidi returned to the Monterey Peninsula where his heart belonged. In 1997, on a bit of...
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