Forrest Barber: Sad Day

[Woody]

Forrest Barber passed away today. I just saw this post. A wealth of Taylorcraft knowledge just left us.

[Hank Jarrett]

A good friend for over 40 years. I wish I had spent more time with him.

[Robert Lees]

Not wholly unexpected.

He was quite instrumental to me during the rebuild of my UK-registered Taylorcraft. I flew in to and drove into Barber Field several times in the 2001-2002 time period to wrack his brains. I think he helped me format my rebuild so as to help others.

Rob

[Robert Lees]

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(Left to right) Me, Fred Rex, Forrest, Jon (Capt Jon) Timlin. 2001 at Barber field for the annual Taylorcraft fly-in.

[mikeg]

Another flying buddy gone all too soon.
Mike Girdley
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[taylorcraft_52]

I just saw my former CFI last week and he informed me of the news. As it turns out he did his tailwheel training with Forrest many moons ago when he was living in OH and remembered him fondly. I never knew Forrest as I got into the T-Craft game just a year or two ago but this is a big loss to the whole community without question.

[Laz]

sorry to hear of his passing