In the year 2000 Bob & Anita Campbell purchased the Randolph Airport form Joyce Wicks. A year later they had built their beautiful retirement home upon the property and became official residents of the area.

Bob retired from Ford Motor Company in St. Louis after a career that took him from Ford in Chicago to the St. Thomas Plant in Ontario and then to St. Louis. He retired in January 1996 and returned to Western New York that same year. After living at Chautauqua Lake for a few years he developed a desire to live on a small grass strip. He grew up in Cattaraugus County and learned to fly at the Randolph Airport as a teenager. He earned his license to fly before he got his license to drive an automobile.

Bob and Anita were childhood sweethearts; however they married different people, raising their families hundreds of miles apart. They both lost spouses to cancer and after 40 years reunited and were married in May of 1998.

Anita retired from the Christina School District of Newark, Delaware as a manager in the Business Office and after retirement worked in Legislative Hall for the State of Delaware and for Cape May-Lewes Ferry, Lewes, Delaware. Now she is in charge of the Cub Cadet grass mowing brigade of (1), chief gardener and official airport greeter.

Currently they own a 1946 Cessna 120, N76944. The engine has been overhauled and upgraded to 90 HP.

Bob installs skis for winter flying. Bob and Anita are members of the International Cessna 120-140 Association and Bob has been recently designated State Representative for Western New York.

They are EAA (Experimental Aircraft Association) members and Bob is president and Anita secretary of EAA Bradford Chapter 467 of Bradford, PA.

Both are active in the Lions Club of Little Valley, NY.

Between them they have four children and eleven grandchildren.

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