Image: Steve Lunde
Max Conrad Field bears the name of the legendary Winona-born aviator. The aerodrome’s greeting heralds from atop the main hangar. The aerodrome has about 10,000 take-offs and landings a year. The greeting is marred somewhat confusingly by the battered silhouette of the name of a historic Florida manufacturer of light airplanes. Piper has had good and bad times. Since 2009 Piper has struggled toward revival under the ownership of the southeast Asia sultanate of Brunei.