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Pea Pod Pusher Dave Powell’s Anderson-Greenwood AG-14 by

Quite often, one of the driving factors in choosing a sport aircraft is trying to find something just a little “different.” Let’s face it, it’s fun to have people come up to you at the gas pump with the familiar “what is that?” look in their eyes. Dave Powell of Rogers, Arkansas, knows that look well, and even after he tells them his airplane is a 1953 Anderson-Greenwood AG-14, the questioning look doesn’t disappear: The AG-14 is one of those airplanes that’s about as far out on the

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edges of aviation history as a flying machine gets, even though it’s not that old. Dave, however, didn’t restore the AG-14 because it was unique. He started the project because his father had worked for Anderson-Greenwood from the mid-1950s on, beginning shortly after the AG-14 era, and he liked the family connection. Plus, it was to be a father/son project. Dave says, “The first project was just finding an AG-14. Only five were built, but two were supposedly somewhere

in the Houston area, where the company was originally located. It took a little sleuthing, but we finally found them separately owned by two close friends who had plans to restore them together. But they weren’t pretty. “I talked one of them into selling me serial number five—the last one produced—and then set about trying to find all of it,” he says. “It was totally disassembled and about 75 percent complete and spread throughout bedrooms, his garage, and backyard.