Online Barnstormer: Airplane Toyboxes from TJs Flying Circus

About me

I am EAA member #99884 and Young Eagle Pilot #4 and enjoy volunteering for Young Eagles Chairmen Cliff Robertson, General Chuck Yeager and Harrison Ford. I have won 3 awards at Oshkosh for restorng Best-in-class 1946 Ercoupe and won First Place & Peoples Choice at the National Ercoupe Convention. I have flown classics, warbirds, and high performance airplanes and have flown sail planes, Hangliders, Powered Hangliders and Ultralights. I started with a Rogallo hanglider in 1972. I became knowledgeable in electrical and mechanical processes, tolerances, safety, reliability and quality building and flying RC planes since grade school. I own a 1972 Jobe Rogallo Hanglider, Icarus V, (predacessor to the modern day ultralight), and owned 1946 Ercoupe(s). FOR HISTORIANS - Many famous people started out flying in an Ercoupe including John Travolta, Johnny Carson, Sam Walton and Pappy Boyington (Pappy's first GA airplane).

Thursday, April 12, 2018

Airplane Toyboxes from TJs Flying Circus

The Original Airplane Toy Box

Airplane Toy boxes were created because I didn't have time to build a peddle plane for my 5 year old sons birthday. The peddle planes you see at EAA are fantastic and the plans are very detailed. The plans are overwhelming and my Dad (Grandpa Olson) and I only had a couple weeks to build an airplane for my son TJ birthday. The peddle plane looked like the same amount of time to build as my ultralight. which took a year. We bought a piece of plywood on Saturday, a sixpack of beer and created plans on a napkin to create the first airplane toybox. It took a weekend to build and a weekend to paint.

Click Here for all the airplane toybox models. What I am most proud of is that Paul Poberezny posed with his P51 airplane toy box in his basement with two thumbs up. KidVenture also has a couple Christian Eagles toy boxes at Oshkosh and the EAA Chapter house usually has theirs out on the deck for kids to play in. You can paint or body wrap toy boxes. You can build your own Airplane Toybox out of a sheet of plywood using detailed plans for $20 (call 515-620-9585) or build it with free plans