Pilot and Assistant Airport Manager Eugene Fairfield was visiting with Nick Knobil at Knobil’s hangar at Wiscasset Municipal Airport Sept. 1, when a 2021 Corvette pulled up. Marilyn Poliakoff, at the wheel, and husband Alex smiled and talked with the men and Wiscasset Newspaper on the bright morning with the windsocks moving.

What color should the car be called? “Flash silver,” Alex Poliakoff answered, still smiling. The couple have their 27th anniversary in October. Alex Poliakoff has been a flight instructor 55 years – now with Wiscasset-based Flighttime. He helped start it in 1998.

Inside the hangar, Knobil got back to work at a drill press. He was preparing to put an ornament, a fake air pump, on his Snoopy plane, the Sopwith Camel he built.

Also at the town-owned airport, pilot and Airport Advisory Committee Chair Steve Williams arrived with older brother Philip, visiting from Lucedale, Mississippi. Philip Williams serves with nearby Mobile, Alabama’s Civil Air Patrol.

Fairfield, of Westport Island, is a Bath Iron Works retiree, a black belt and owner of a 1963 Cessna 150 and a 1957, red, white and blue 172 he calls “Uncle Sam.”