Without realizing it at the time, Air Zoo co-founders Suzanne and Pete Parish went to work curating our founding collection. After serving with the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP), Sue met and married Pete, a former WWII Marine Air Corps aviator. In 1959, Pete purchased half interest in a single-engine 35C Bonanza, and, before long, the couple purchased a Stearman Biplane. Next came an AT-6, followed by a Grumman Wildcat. When word traveled about a partially assembled P-40 in Addison, Texas, Sue couldn’t resist. It was the combat plane she had always dreamed of flying as a WASP. Following a detailed restoration, this desert pink Flying Tiger became Sue’s trademark aircraft. That very airplane hangs in the Air Zoo’s atrium today.