Drop Dead is dead wrong. Air Adventures West has only occupied the Armstrong property as a DZ since 1991. The original Taft DZ was run out of the Taft Airport, starting sometime in 1960. I started jumping there in July, 1962. In early 1963, Art Armstrong moved the DZ to his private property where Air Adventures is now. It stayed there until Art died in 1990 and Air Adventures West ( Bill Jones ) leased it in 1991. Dave Chrouch had a video operation at Air Adventures West. In 1998 he left Air Adventures West and started his own operation on the Taft Airport and called it Skydive Taft. Thus the Taft DZ has traveled full circle and returned to where it began. Bill Newell SCR#3, D-2644, SCS#69, NSCR#747, SCSA#11Quote
