Aircraft Information
> Aircraft Make: Angel Aircraft Corportation. Model: AAC 44. Nickname: none?
> Aircraft Mil Civ Description: Airplane ME Piston
> FAA Category and Class: Airplane Multi-engine Land
> Engine Description: Twin piston
Aircraft Experience
> As of: 6/25/2024
> Number of Hours Flown: 1.4
> Number of Times Flown: 1
> Other Aircraft Models Associated: none
First Flown Information
> Sequence First Flown: 137
> Date First Flown: 6/26/2003
> Location First Flown: Orange City, Iowa (KORC)–now closed?
> Who and/or What Organization First Flown With: Carl Mortenson, CEO of Angel Aircraft
Recollections:
This was another amazing experience given to me by the FAA. I went to Orange City, IA (in a Beech 58 that was unknowingly out of annual…but that’s another story!) to visit the Angel Aircraft Corporation. Google this company for more, but what an amazing place and family. The Model 44 received type certification and was intended by the Mortenson family to be a twin engine missionary aircraft. Sales unfortunately didn’t materialize. My mission during this visit was to validate their production flight test procedure as part of the AAC’s application for a Production Certificate. I flew with the Model 44’s designer and company owner Carl Mortenson in serial number 1. As nice a man as ever walked the earth, Carl had an engineering acumen that matched. We prayed before we flew and then flew the Production profile on this unusual twin-pusher design that was capable of landing and taking off from extremely short and rough jungle strips, with room for a stretcher behind the two pilots. The machine handled very well and passed all of it’s checks. I left Iowa feeling lucky to have flown this unusual machine and to have met Carl and other members of his family.
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