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Photos: Cedar Rapids area pilots plan flight around the world
Dec. 26, 2019 8:00 am, Updated: Feb. 5, 2020 3:14 pm
Pilot Peter Teahen and co-pilot John Ockefels plan to leave in late March on a 20,000-mile mission to fight polio
Pilot Peter Teahen looks toward the horizon while flying above the Cedar Rapids area on Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2019. Teahan and his co-pilot John Ockenfels will depart in late March for a flight around the world in Teahen's single-engine aircraft. (Andy Abeyta/The Gazette)
A 1978 Piper Lance II piloted by Peter Teahen and co-piloted by John Ockenfels taxis down a roadway at the Eastern Iowa Airport in Cedar Rapids on Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2019. (Andy Abeyta/The Gazette)
Pilot Peter Teahen fills up one of his tanks with fuel at the Eastern Iowa Airport after a brief flight over the Cedar Rapids and Iowa City areas on Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2019. (Andy Abeyta/The Gazette)
Pilot Peter Teahen and co-pilot John Ockenfels fly over the Cedar Rapids area on Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2019. (Andy Abeyta/The Gazette)
Farmland surrounding Cedar Rapids is seen from aboard a 1978 Piper Lance II aircraft on Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2019. (Andy Abeyta/The Gazette)
A commercial airliner comes in for landing in the distance as pilot Peter Teahen and co-pilot John Ockenfels pull the 1978 Piper Lance II aircraft out from the hanger at the Eastern Iowa Airport in Cedar Rapids on Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2019. (Andy Abeyta/The Gazette)
Pilot Peter Teahen holds the controls during a flight above Cedar Rapids on Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2019. (Andy Abeyta/The Gazette)
Pilot Peter Teahen and co-pilot John Ockenfels consult one another while stopped on the ground to refuel Teahen's 1978 Piper Lance II aircraft at the Eastern Iowa Airport in Cedar Rapids on Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2019. (Andy Abeyta/The Gazette)
A 1978 Piper Lance II piloted by Peter Teahen and co-piloted by John Ockenfels taxis down a roadway at the Eastern Iowa Airport in Cedar Rapids on Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2019. (Andy Abeyta/The Gazette)
Pilot Peter Teahen looks over his aircraft checking the rivets on the wings after checking the fuel before a flight at the Eastern Iowa Airport in Cedar Rapids on Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2019. (Andy Abeyta/The Gazette)
Pilot Peter Teahen steps into his 1978 Piper Lance II single engine aircraft in Cedar Rapids on Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2019. (Andy Abeyta/The Gazette)
Co-pilot John Ockenfels steps up to the wing of the aircraft to join pilot Peter Teahen in the cockpit in Cedar Rapids on Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2019. (Andy Abeyta/The Gazette)
Pilot Peter Teahen scans the skies during a flight over Cedar Rapids on Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2019. (Andy Abeyta/The Gazette)
Pilot Peter Teahen (left) and co-pilot John Ockenfels take off from the runway at the Eastern Iowa Airport in Cedar Rapids on Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2019. (Andy Abeyta/The Gazette)
Co-pilot John Ockenfels (left) helps pilot Peter Teahen (right) push the aircraft back into the hangar at the Eastern Iowa Airport in Cedar Rapids on Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2019. (Andy Abeyta/The Gazette)
Co-pilot John Ockenfels (left) and pilot Peter Teahen (right) get the 1978 Piper Lance II aircraft stored away in Teahen's hangar at the Eastern Iowa Airport in Cedar Rapids on Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2019. (Andy Abeyta/The Gazette)
