______About the Propeller Shop

Contact the propeller shop directly: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it  

The Ole Fahlin Memorial Propeller Shop is located on the grounds of the Wings Of History Air Museum. It is a commemoration of one of the world’s great propeller makers as well as a continuation of the shop that Ole Fahlin started during the early 1960’s in Santa Clara, California. In fact, the first propeller that Ole made in his new shop was for Larry Steven’s WACO-10. This aircraft and its Fahlin propeller was on display in the museum at one time.

 The shop has been located in various parts of the Santa Clara Valley over the years with the longest period, eighteen years, being in Cupertino, California. It was once located at Hill Country in Morgan Hill.

Throughout the shop’s more than thirty-year history there has been a surprising continuity of machinery, presses, tooling, etc., used in the shop. Many of the tools and much of the equipment that Ole used to make propellers are still used today by Guy Watson, Herb Robbins, and a few others. Guy started working with Ole about 1973 and has been building propellers ever since, first under the Fahlin label and later, after Ole retired, under his own Watson label.

The Ole Fahlin Memorial Propeller Shop is the only west coast FAA Authorized Repair Station for wooden propellers—Certificate #WOKR 041-L. The shop specializes in custom built, experimental and antique wooden propellers such as would be encountered in the earlier years of aviation, 1903–1935. The propellers are built by the 'Watson Division' of the Wings of History Air Museum.