A candid snapshot of a young man and an older woman posed before a small high-wing civilian trainer aircraft, the type commonly used in the era's Civilian Pilot Training Program and early flight instruction. Though informal rather than an official service photograph, images like this illustrate the everyday world of light aviation that surrounded and fed into military pilot training pipelines, including the Navy's V-5 Aviation Cadet program, during the 1930s and 1940s. Project: 218579