Wings A-Blazin, Hermann’s aviation-themed restaurant on East Fourth Street, will soon have seating on the second floor. It will also have an airplane coming out of the ceiling and walls.
When Leif Johnson came across an experimental airplane in Sullivan that was rendered un-airworthy, he jumped on it. He wanted it for the restaurant that his wife, Beth, co-owns with Robert Riddell, a long-time friend of the Hermann couple.
The story of how Johnson picked up a unique airplane came about after last spring’s flood. The plane might have been worthless, but it had some value to him.
Johnson, a commercial pilot, had to move his private plane from the hangar at the Hermann Airport because of major flooding, and temporarily parked it in Sullivan. While he was there he noticed a plane in the hangar that was burned.
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