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over about two or three years using mod-
el airplane drawings, pictures, and some
Left: The Howard DGA-6 replica “Mister Mulligan” was conversations with Harold Neumann,”
built by Jim and Bob Younkin and first flew in 1982 explains Rozendaal. “It’s a TLAR airplane
(photo by Kelley Hammond). – That Looks about Right.”
Below: Doug “Rozy” Rozendaal (right) with his Younkin flew the plane quite a bit as a
“co-pilot in life and flight”, Kim Pardon (left, photo by traveling airplane, since it can fly cross-
Denise Decker). country at over 200 knots at 8,000 feet.
Eventually it wound up spending a lot
of time in a museum in Fayetteville, Ar-
kansas close to Younkin’s home in Siloam
Sadly, Mister Mulligan was destroyed Springs. They would also fly it from time-
in 1936 when it crashed after a propeller to-time, including trips to Oshkosh for
failure on the way to Burbank for the Ben- the EAA airshow.
dix race. Both Howard and his wife were Over the years, Rozendaal had become
injured in the crash, but both survived. close friends with the Younkin family,
while mentoring Jim’s grandson, Matt,
tHE MisTer MuLLiGAn REpLICA who was starting to fly the Twin Beech
Fast forward to the late 1970s, and Jim airshow act his dad Bobby had once pio-
Younkin, the father of airshow legend neered. Through that friendship, Doug
Bobby Younkin and grandfather of cur- was introduced to Mister Mulligan and
rent airshow star Matt Younkin, was at got to fly the airplane on several occa-
Oshkosh hanging out with some of his sions. After Jim Younkin passed away
cronies. One of his friends challenged in 2019, the Younkin family wanted the
Younkin to build a replica of the DGA-6, plane to have a good caretaker, so they of-
and never being one to back down from a fered Doug the opportunity to buy Mister
challenge, Jim and his brother Bob built Mulligan.
the airplane in relatively short order. “We came to terms, and I bought the
“They finished it in 1982, building it airplane,” says Rozy. “It was in the middle

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