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. In fact, the first propeller that Ole made in his new California shop was for Larry Steven’s WACO-10, this aircraft and its Fahlin propeller are on display in the museum. The shop has been located in several parts of the Santa Clara Valley over the years with the longest period of eighteen years being in Cupertino. Its most recent location was 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. 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 an 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.

Guy Watson in the Ole Fahlin Memorial Propeller Shop