Carl M. (Nick) Nicholson was an OX-5 Aviation Pioneer. He was taught to fly in the mid 1930's at Broken Bow, Nebraska, by Jack Jefford of later Alaskan flying fame.
During World War II he was a primary flight instructor for American and British students at Spartan School in Tulsa, and Miami, Oklahoma, flying Fairchild PT-19's.
After the war he flew corporate aircraft, then started Faulkton Air Service in South Dakota. Later he was a seaplane instructor at Swan Island on the Willamette River in Portland, Oregon, then flew Stearmans dusting and spraying crops and forests. The first Douglas B-18A he modified and flew at Salem, Oregon, is in the Air Force Museum.
He received his Air Transport Rating in the 1949 Dl8S Twin Beech, N522B, that is
in the National Air and Space Museum. After years of flying corporate executives, he
owned and ran General Aircraft Supply in Phoenix, Arizona, until his retirement. A book
of flying stories about him and his friends is Nick the Renegade Barnstormer.