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Archive Home > 2011 > July > 04 > Teen flying high on his sweet 16

Teen flying high on his sweet 16

Third in a line of family pilots, Davis Weiss takes his first solo flight

By Jessica Prokop / The Bulletin
July 4, 2011

ROSEBURG —

Summer arrived June 21 with blue skies and little wind, a perfect day for friends and family to watch a 16-year-old and third-generation pilot make his first solo flight in the family’s 1955 Cessna 170.

Roseburg High School sophomore Davis Weiss spent his 16th birthday taking off and....

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