Aviation instructor included in article about museum's 'labor of love'
Monday, October 2, 2023
Photo by David Tulis, senior photographer, AOPA
![Michael Damiani](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2023-10/MikeDamiani_AOPA.jpg?itok=wKI0GLzj)
A member of Penn College's aviation faculty is pictured in the October issue of AOPA Pilot magazine, a publication of the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association.
An article by Emma Quedzuweit, assistant editor, details a "painstaking labor of love" by volunteers at the Golden Age Air Museum in Bethel – volunteers that include Michael Damiani, an instructor at the college's Lumley Aviation Center.
Damiani serves part time as the Berks County museum's director of maintenance and as a staff pilot, maintaining and operating a fleet of vintage aircraft and engines. His photo accompanies "Biddle Bones," Quedzuweit's extensive piece about the quest to recreate a SPAD XIII belonging to Pennsylvania native Charles Biddle, a WWI veteran of the U.S. Army Air Service.
The pages are reprinted here with permission of AOPA: