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Island Airways announces summer pilots and parachute-jumping visit, 1988

Also Island Airways 1988 summer staff · Paul Lindsey parachute jump

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Date1988-06
WithinBeaver Island
ErasModern era
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Summary

The June 1988 Beaver Beacon reports that Earl and Sally Barnes would fly for Island Airways for a second summer and that former summer pilot Paul Lindsey planned a July 4 visit and parachute jump.

Evidence limits

This is an airline community notice; it does not establish the season’s full flight schedule, pilot roster, or whether the planned jump occurred.

Sources

  1. Reports Paul Lindsey’s planned July 4 visit and parachute jumping, Earl and Sally Barnes’s second summer flying for Island Airways, and Ellen Welke’s loon observation. The holding institution's portal restricts automated access; the archive holds a copy of this issue and can provide it on request.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1988-06_Beaver-Beacon
  2. The held twenty-page June issue PDF is paired with the canonical OCR source.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1988-06_Beaver-Beacon

Added 4 August 2026. Recent changes

Cite this article

Beaver Island Archive, “Island Airways announces summer pilots and parachute-jumping visit, 1988”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-island-airways-summer-pilots-1988/, accessed [date], citing “Island Airways News,” Beaver Beacon, June 1988. (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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