Casablanca Air A Naples Flightseeing Adventure. When you've explored every level of the Greater Naples area, from the intimate shops on South Fifth Avenue and Third Street to the Pine Ridge enclaves, it's time to take to the wide blue yonder. Fran won the sensational half-hour flight during Casablanca Air's open house at the Naples Airport.
Every ride includes a photograph of the passenger topped with flight jacket, helmet and goggles.
Wright also owns a 1942 five passenger Beechcraft Model 18, which shares the hangar with the N3N-3, the only airplane ever built by the government and not by private industry. After donning the headgear and goggles, Fran took her position in front of Wright and the Waldo Pepper taxied from the hangar to the takeoff strip, then roared down the runway and into the clear, late-afternoon sky. The craft then whisked across Gordon Pass to Keewaydin Island, where the pint-sized ferryboat once cruised from the Port Royal point across the restless water to the Island. All the old cottages and habitations have been torn down in preparation for a planned upscale community. Clipping along at 100 mph, the plane then turned toward Marco Island, scanning its populated length from stem to stern with the beach-front civilization spread below like Aladdin's colorful carpet.