Al Shirk Next to his Airplane

This black-and-white photograph shows Al Shirk kneeling in front of his airplane. He faces left, in profile, towards the front of the airplane, which faces right. The plane is a small propellor plane. The picture is in an unidentified location, on what appears to be a flat, gravel and dirt surface, with the edge of a wing of a different plane visible in the back right. No buildings or other features are visible. 

The photograph was taken by his son, A.V. Shirk, who writes: "In the 1950s, my father, Al Shirk, owned a small airplane, a two-person Ercoupe...in which he would take my mother, my brother, my sister or me flying all over central Ohio. On some of these occasions, I took my Speed Graphic press camera and took pictures. When I wanted to take a photo, I would pull down the window of the cockpit, and Dad would then turn and bank, to give me a good view. I suppose holding a large camera, with a leather bellows, that close to the slipstream would strike some people as chancy, but nothing untoward ever happened. We lived, at that time, at 525 Meadoway Park, in Colonial Hills."