With a little help from a Swedish Aviation blog on facebook, I managed to find a picture of the very aircraft, in which I slipped the surly bonds of earth for the first time. The owner and pilot was a neighbor. I think it must have been in 1983. I was 10-11 years old.
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Cool…that looks like a fairy-tale with the flowers…!
I did an N number registration search for my first aircraft, a Cessna 152 N45905. Looks like it was deregistered in 2004 and exported to Latvia…! The new owner of the N45905 registration number is a United Airlines Boeing 787-800!
I don’t even know how I’d begin to search for where it is in Latvia. It’s a 1978 Cessna 152 with serial number 15282942.
And I also wonder how they got it there. Sounds like a good flight to attempt from where I used to fly it… 
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@Troll. That is very cool. There’s nothing like your first. What a small rudder she has, though. Otherwise, very cute, looking a little like the Swift, a plane I would love to get my hands on.
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Wow. Isn’t that something. That makes at least three planes I’ve flown in the past that went on to later be destroyed in accidents. Fate is the hunter indeed.
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If its any consolation my first 152 killed around 10k chickens when it finally met its end crashing through the roof of the chicken shed on the turn onto base leg… The student walked away without a scratch but God did he ever stink of chicken s***
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The infamous base turn stall, no doubt.
Morale of the story.
If you stall out in the base turn, try to do so over a chicken farm and go to Mudspike.com and read up on why an aircraft can stall at any speed.
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Got It in one.
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Mudspike spin recovery technique: flaps out, stick (all the way) forwards, opposite aileron, rudder into turn.
60% of the time, it works every time.
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I’m glad I stopped reading that thread it was making my brain hurt lol
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Ahahaha! You evil man!! 
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I always lock up when I don’t see a DDI with explicit instructions.
Heh, I got that reference…
“That doesn’t even make sense”
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OK…um…I thought the Mudspike spin recover was, Hit Pause. If in DCS, exit from flight, otherwise if in FSX, switch to Slew mode, slew to a recoverable altitude, set aircraft in a stable flight attitude, exit from slew and unpause.
…what am I missing? 
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