We are a group of individuals with over 90,000 hours combined flight experience who are passionate about Cessna aircraft. We’ve spent the last many years running a member organization for Cessna owners and listening to owners and pilots like you. Our experience led us to believe that there was a need for a really superior organization for owners and pilots of Cessna aircraft and, with a little help from our friends; we set out to create the ultimate organization.

The Staff

Cessna Flyer Association
P.O. Box 381
Waupaca Municipal Airport (PCZ)
The Blue Hangar
Waupaca, WI 54981-0381
Phone: 920-867-2800
Fax: 920-867-2805

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Contact Information:

Website Assistance - E-Mail the Webmaster
Technical Support - E-Mail Technical Support
Parts Locating - E-Mail Parts Locator
Membership Services - E-mail Membership Services
Editorial Questions - E-mail the Publisher
Jennifer Dellenbusch - E-Mail Jennifer
Trevor Janz - E-mail Trevor

Jennifer Dellenbusch (Founder) has over 24 years of executive experience including many years of experience as Executive Director of a Cessna member organization. Certified Public Accountant. Eight parachute jumps out of (mostly) perfectly good airplanes. Jennifer is originally from Los Angeles, but now lives in Wisconsin. (Don’t ask.) E-Mail Jennifer

Cessna Flyer Association Co-Founder Trevor Janz grew up around airports while his father and uncle flight instructed. Trevor soloed at age 16, received his private pilot certificate at age 17 and attained his instrument rating at age 18. All of Trevor's private pilot training occurred in Cessna 150s and 152s. Trevor also has numerous hours in Cessna 172s, 182RGs and 177RGs. Trevor's career in aviation marketing and advertising has spanned over 20 years, and he continues to fly single engine aircraft. Trevor resides in Waupaca, Wis. (35 miles NW of Oshkosh) with his wife and two children. E-Mail Trevor

  Editor at Large

Thomas Block has flown nearly 30,000 hours since his first hour of dual in 1959. In addition to his 36-year career as a US Airways pilot, he has been an aviation magazine writer since 1969 and a best-selling novelist. Block has been the owner of more than a dozen personal airplanes including a Cessna 140, Cessna 170, Cessna 172 and L-19 Bird Dog. In addition, Block has had six non-marque airplanes that ranged from two- and four-seat singles on through a light twin, an amphibian and a motor glider.

  Contributing Editors

Kevin Garrison’s aviation career began at age 15 as a lineboy in Lakeland Florida. He came up through general aviation and is currently a senior 767 captain. When not frightening passengers, Kevin plays tennis and lives on a horse farm in Kentucky, where he writes unsold humor projects and believes professional wrestling is real and all else is bogus.

Michael Leighton is a 5,500-hour CFII/MEI/ATP and holds a type rating in CE-500 series business jets. He is a current NAFI Master Flight Instructor, a licensed and current A&P mechanic and a former FAA Accident Prevention Counselor. He is the assistant Chief Pilot of a Part 141 flight school and operates a Part 135 on-demand air charter company in South Florida. His influence for his articles comes from his own experience as an owner/pilot as well as an instructor. He has owned more than 87 aircraft including a Cessna 172, 172RG, A-150M Aerobat, Cessna 152, Cessna 177B, Cessna 414 and Cessna 501SP.

Charles Lloyd has logged 7,900 hours since his first flying lesson in 1954. He worked for Cessna Aircraft in Citation Marketing and Finance for 16 years. Charles’ current day job is as a Citation Excel Captain for a major fractional aircraft ownership company. He owns a 1966 restored Cessna 182 with a Garmin avionics installation and other modifications. Any comments you have, both the good and the “how can you write that.” about his articles are welcome. E-Mail Charles

Daryl Murphy has been writing about and flying a variety of aircraft for 36 years. In addition to Cessna Flyer, his work appears in General Aviation News and Aviation International News, and he has written five aviation books and one on automobile racing.

John D. Ruley is an instrument-rated private pilot, a freelance writer specializing in science and technology and a mid-career grad student (via distance education) in the Space Studies program at the University of North Dakota. He’s also a volunteer pilot for LIGA International, which flies medical missions to sites in northwest Mexico, past president (and current vice-president) of the Modesto Pilots’ Association and a member of the board of directors of the Mission Doctors Association. Ruley currently co-owns a Cessna 182P (Skylane).

Dale Smith has been in love with airplanes and flying forever. A prolific aviation journalist, along with Cessna Flyer, Dale writes for Plane & Pilot, Pilot Journal, Aviation Maintenance Magazine, Avionics News, Professional Pilot, Aviation Business Journal, Flight Training and other aviation magazines. When he’s not writing fun stuff about airplanes, Dale is also a principle partner in Flying Boat Creative Services, an advertising agency specializing in aviation. E-Mail Dale

  Photographers

Paul Bowen, a commercial photographer based in Wichita, Kansas, has been shooting aerial photography since 1972. He is credited with well over 700 magazine covers and countless advertising campaigns. Paul and his wife Gail live on a lake in Augusta, Kansas, with their children. Paul is best known for his vortices aerials. His three coffee-table books, Air to Air,, Volumes I and II and Air to Air Warbirds, have gained critical acclaim.

Austin Brown, owner of The Aviation Picture Library has lived and worked in Europe, the Caribbean, West Africa and the US and photographed extensively in these areas since 1980, on the ground and in the air. The Aviation Picture Library is a specialized source of over 400,000 original transparencies and prints covering all aspects of aviation. E-Mail Austin

Robb Gessert started flying gliders at age 14 and has since logged over 5,000 hours. Most all of his time being flown in jets with the military, corporate and airlines. He flies his 1946 Cessna 140, out of the Troy Airpark in Missouri, for fun with his wife Lauren and two sons.

 

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