They’ve landed on dry lake beds in Nevada, farm fields in Montana, sandbars in the Skagit River.
Next, Kyle Fosso and Sam Hagan, both 22, intend to touch down in all 50 states on a year-long airplane journey starting in April from Anacortes.
They plan to document the entire trip on video and share it online along the way.
“We’re aiming to show people from a unique point of view what their country’s like,” said pilot Fosso, who will fly a 1954 Cessna 170B airplane he restored himself.
In a small airplane, you can fly almost anywhere you want and don’t have to stick to big airports or cities, he said.
“We want to find places that aren’t attractions, but they’re places and maybe people don’t know much about them, and we just want people to know they’re there,” Hagan said.
The pair has been planning the trip for the past two years, but the adventure began with the purchase of the Cessna plane when Fosso was 15.
The Anacortes native was working for a mechanic who suggested he buy an “airplane project” like a wing. He ended up buying a whole airplane, a wrecked seaplane in six pieces that had crashed in 1974 in Alaska and had been sitting in storage in Lynnwood for 40 years.
At that point, the 15-year-old only had a dozen hours of flying under his belt, but admired the airplane of an Anacortes pilot that was the exact same make, model and engine of the wreck.
“I bought (the plane) before I was
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