Posted to Beaver Island Michigan Archives (public Facebook group) by Suzanne Jule on 2026-03-31 14:15:22. Caption as posted: "Photographed yesterday at Island Airways, a vintage 1957 Cessna 180 in mint condition, piloted by Paul Fullerton of St Ignace, who is airport manager of the St. Ignace, Mackinac County Airport. A photo of Fullerton is in comments below. Fullerton, whose friendship with Island Airways owner Paul Welke dates back to their childhood in the Detroit area, had flown to the island to visit his sister. "I can remember landing here when this was still an empty farm field. I helped pull stones out of this field and piled them far off to the side", said Fullerton, referencing the years when Paul Welke's"
Visual descriptionwritten by a machine · unchecked
A silver high-wing light aircraft with dark blue and yellow stripes is parked on a muddy airfield. Snowbanks, puddles, a traffic cone, a paved strip, and a line of leafless and evergreen trees are visible in the background. The registration N1806A is painted on the fuselage and tail.
A model wrote this. It was shown the image and the catalogue record together, and asked to keep them apart — what it saw is here, what the record told it is under "taken from the record" below. It is still wrong often enough to matter, about who is pictured, where, when, and what is happening. Read it as a way to find the image, never as evidence about it. If you can correct it, please do: write to michael.bommarito@gmail.com, or see how corrections work. Someone who recognises a face or a shoreline knows more than the model did.
Individual posters, credited per image
2,048 × 1,079 px · JPEG · 435 KB
Subjects and keywords
Text in the image
Transcribed from the object itself.
N1806A
Taken from the record
Not observed in the image — supplied by the archive's own catalogue, and repeated here so the two stay distinguishable.
The catalogue caption identifies the aircraft as a vintage 1957 Cessna 180 and says it was photographed at Island Airways. The caption names Paul Fullerton as the pilot and describes him as the airport manager of the St. Ignace, Mackinac County Airport. The image was posted by Suzanne Jule on March 31, 2026.
Rights and credit
Community source, no stated terms; published non-commercially with attribution to the poster and a link to the original post.
Credit this to Individual posters, credited per image when you use it.
Why this archive publishes it. Public Facebook groups and pages run by island organisations and residents. Each item credits the poster by name and links to the original post. Removal on request.
Material goes off the web without anyone deciding that it should: a host lapses, a gallery is retired, a link stops resolving. Holding a copy — with its provenance, its checksum and its holder's terms recorded beside it — is much of why this archive exists. If you are looking for something whose original has since gone, write to michael.bommarito@gmail.com and a full-size copy of what is held here will be sent to you.
Recorded verbatim from the provenance sidecar taken at retrieval — this archive does not restate a holder's terms in its own words, does not add a restriction the holder did not state, and does not abridge one.
Provenance
- Held by
- Individual posters, credited per image
- Collection
- Community photographs — public Facebook groups and pages
- Original
- https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10170409677081337&set=g.1178704363851871
- Copy taken
- 2026-03-31
- Title from
- the note recorded at retrieval
The file
| Rendition | Format | Extent | Size | SHA-256 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Master | JPEG | 2,048 × 1,079 px | 435 KB | cb5f6433c88c… |
Checksums are the values recorded when each copy was taken.
Download
- Web-sized image1200 × 632 · 103 KB · WebP
- The full-resolution original, from Individual posters, credited per image2,048 × 1,079 · 435 KB · JPEG
The archive holds its own copy of that file and will supply it on request; it is not re-served here, because the holder serves it better and a second copy is a second thing to go stale.
Cite this
“Posted to Beaver Island Michigan Archives (public Facebook group) by Suzanne Jule on 2026-03-31 14:15:22”. Individual posters, credited per image. Beaver Island Archive, https://beaverislandarchive.org/media/photograph/2026-03-31-10170409677081337/. copy retrieved 2026-03-31.
Built only from what the archive recorded: the names on the record, the title as recorded, the date if one was recorded, this page, and the date the copy was taken. Nothing is filled in to satisfy a citation style.