When I dragged my DH into a LQS while on vacation, he went nuts over a WW2 planes panel...so I ended up making him the quilt pictured below (it kind of grew). My LAQer did a great job with it.
Soooo I'm suggesting that you can probably buy fabric related to one of his interests.
WW2 Airplane Quilt
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