Regional Contest Takes Place Each Year In February

Bearhawk tells ANN that Jonathan Battson has taken top honors, for two years running, in his Bearhawk in a New Zealand STOL Competition. The regional contest takes place each year in February. Battson and his Bearhawk continued their winning ways by a wide margin.

"We managed to clean up the heavy touring category again this weekend, convincingly this time with a total combined distance of 71m compared to 108m and 131m for second and third place. There was less wind than usual, so I was pleased with the landing," he commented.

"This year we had a couple of key people from the Valdez STOL contest here, Lon and Bob. Lon organizes the Valdez event, and Bob and his son Bobby (Breeden) have won numerous times. They liked the event and said the flying was as good as they see in Valdez… except here the action is faster and the crowd is much closer to the action which they seemed to like. They said we have less Super Cubs than in Alaska," stated Jonathan.

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