Acrylic on canvas, 16 x 12 inches.
This is my friend’s Beechcraft Baron #704CC in its natural habitat. Charlie Charlie is well known in the San Francisco Bay Area aviation community, having for years been owned by David “Scotty” Morris. He and the plane were regulars flying in and out of the plane’s home base at SFO. When Scotty passed away in 2013, shortly after the original version of this painting was finished, ownership of the plane passed to his son. I am honored that the family used a black-and-white rendering of this painting on Scotty’s headstone. There were some issues with the background of the original painting, so I re-painted it in 2016 and that is what is presented here.
I am pleased that this painting was on the cover of the American Bonanza Society Magazine’s May 2017 issue, in conjunction with an article I wrote about the plane for their “Beechcraft of the Month” feature.