Born & raised in Anchorage, Alaska in 1954, Lars Opland has
rarely been beyond the sound of aircraft engines. His earliest memory
is a view of the Anchorage rail yards down the aluminum wing of a
banking airliner, with thin clouds passing by in the
"foreground". Lars says "My mother identifies this
with a flight from Cordova to Anchorage in a DC-3 when I was 3."
Fly-in fishing trips with his father, 4 years in the Coast Guard &
several jobs in isolated locations around Alaska have provided Lars
experiences as a passenger in a wide assortment of flying machines
from Cessnas and Widgeons to a Sikorsky helicopter, C-130's and jumbo jets.
Never a licensed pilot, Lars' interest in aviation has been from a
historical perspective and model airplanes have been his life-long
hobby, finally evolving into a business venture, Khee-Kha Art
Products, Khee-Kha
Art Products, kitting the overlooked bush planes of the Golden
Age of flying.
