Krosswind Aviation LLC

I bought a 1965 Beechcraft Bonanza while I was still a student pilot. This is what happens next.

I'm based out of KFMY (Fort Myers Page Field), and I run a software company — not a career pilot, not an aviation family. In September 2025 I bought N2015W: a Beechcraft S35 Bonanza. Continental IO-520, retractable gear, technically advanced, complex and high-performance. Then I started training in it.

I'd gotten close once before. 54.6 hours in a Cessna 172 and a checkride on the calendar — then I caught COVID, ended up in the hospital, and the certificate never happened. A few years later I'm back at it. Instead of restarting in a 172, I bought a Bonanza S35.

So that's the channel: finishing what I started, in a real airplane. Cockpit footage, lessons, maintenance squawks, and the part nobody posts — what it actually costs. Loan, insurance, annual, fuel. Real numbers, no spin.

Krosswind Aviation LLC | KFMY
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