Aviation | Douglas Johnson

• GUNFIGHTER ON PARADE

  Gouache, Linen panel, 8" x 10". Gunfighter is a 1945 North American Mustang P-51D, and is part of the Commemorative Air Force stable of historic aircraft. It is fitted with a second seat in the place of radio stacks beh…

• PRESSING ON...

  Oil, Linen panel, 18" x 24". Captain Chuck Yeager flew his P-51D "Glamorous Glen III" alongside Bud Anderson in the 357th Fighter Group based in England during WWII. Both were aces, several times over. Here the group is…

• FLY FISHING

  Oil, Canvas, 24" x 36" x 2". 1939 Cessna Airmaster on Wipaire floats. Cessna produced fewer than 10 of these examples, which were intended to compete against the DeHaviland aircraft for the bush pilot marketplace. Unfor…

• BRISTOL FIGHTER F2B "BRISFIT" 1916

  Oil, Panel, 9" x 12". The Bristol Fighter, also known as the "Brisfit" or just "Biff", was first built by Britain in 1916, with various models produced into the late 1920's. The type evolved with better and more powerfu…

• FOKKER EV D-VIII 1918

  Oil, Panel, 12 x 9

• SPAD VII with FRENCH PILOT 1917

  Oil, Panel, 12 x 9. Painted on site, in plein air.

• CURTISS JENNY JN-4H 1917

  Oil, Panel, 9" x 12". The Curtiss Jenny JN4 was the predominant US military trainer before and during WWI. Thousands were sold after the war, and many barnstormers crisscrossed the country offering rides and shows. For…

• THE COMM SET

  Watercolor, Paper, 14 x 18

• SHOW SMOKE

  Oil, Panel, 8" x 10". A P-51 awaits its turn to demonstrate power and grace amidst an active afternoon airshow.

• SOPWITH IN SUNSHINE

  Oil, Panel, 10" x 8"

• ANGELS 40 AND CLIMBING

  Acrylic, Canvas, 36" x 36" x 2". Modern-day knights of the air ascend into rarified air to prepare for combat.

• SURVIVED ANOTHER MISSION: CONTEMPLATION

  Oil, Panel, 16" x 20". A tough mission in the South Pacific during WWII; back home, but with the glassy stare of shellshock...

• PREPARING FOR DAWN PATROL

  Oil, Canvas, 30" x 40" x 2". A crew prepares for a dawn patrol for this intrepid pilot and his Sopwith Camel behind the front in WWI. This painting won fourth place award at a STAAA Spring Members juried art show in 202…

• IT'S TIME TO GO

  Oil, Canvas, 30" x 24" x 2". "That's all brother" was the lead aircraft in an aerial armada of over 800 aircraft that carried paratroopers and equipment behind enemy lines the night before D-Day (June 1944). Here, the s…

• LAST FLIGHT OVER RABAUL

  Oil, Canvas, 15" x 30" x 2". Last flight of the B-24B Leila Belle, a Liberator that never returned from a raid on Rabaul in 1943.

• THROUGH THE LAST GATE

  Oil, Panel, 14" x 18". A timed racer blasts through the last gate of an aerial gauntlet pitting the best aerobatic pilots in the world against each other. Here the course is just offshore, with the throngs of spectators…