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re: location of indicator on map is wrong
I've made the change.
location of indicator on map is wrong
The green indicator on the map is sitting north/east of Darrow Field about 1/8 mile. The airport runs next to the dark green field just below and left of the indicator. If you look vary close you can read in white " Darrow Field ". Google has the field named Hettinger Pl. that also is wrong.
re: Guinn Flying Service
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Guinn Flying Service
Does anyone remember Helen and Joel Guinn that ran Guinn Flying Service out in Pearland?
Great Airport
Exclusive Charter Service has great service out of here,
suggest calling them for a Jet, flow with them for years now and always on the ball!
MIke D
Hap's Air
Great place to rent with. Always helpful and quick to help with questions. Can't find a better FBO.
Orangeville Airport
I got my PPL license there in 1971 with Townsend Air Service. It was also a Lake Amphibian distributor. Not sure what year it closed. Elton Townsend moved the operation to Muskoka Airport.
Prairie Jewel
A great place to fly to, situated on highway 24 which runs to Calgary to the north and Lethbridge to the south. Right next to the Vulcan airport is the golf club which boasts a great 18 hole course and you can take a short walk across a couple of fairways from the airport and have breakfast or lunch at the club house (spring thru fall only). Vulcan is a growing agricultural community about 90 minutes southeast of Calgary Alberta and lots of retired Calgarians are moving here to escape the hustle of the big city. The main part of town has shops and other restaurants to choose from. Population is about 3,000.
Runway
Bassano airport has a new re-surfaced runway 07/25 and is a great place to land, it has a pilots lounge with pay phone and washrooms. This airport is just off the Trans Canada highway. It also now has a flying school which just opened this year (2010). The town is only a short distance from the airport and has a couple of great restaurants to choose from. The local flying community and town puts together an awesome airshow each summer. This small farming community has some of the friendliest people around.
re: Lovely caribbean airports.
Here's a YouTube video of a landing — I love that they stop in time for the turnoff halfway down:
Lovely caribbean airports.
An airport with attitude. Cliffs and sea on both ends, only 1300 ft. long. Mountain on one side.
The Dutch engineers thought it couldn't be done. A french pilot said flatten the bumps, fill the holes and I'll land on it. They did and he did. Now it's rated as one of the world's most dangerous airports. Nevertheless, no serious accidents have occurred here. Just make sure you hit the numbers and that your brakes are in good condition. Otherwise, have a nice swim.
re: aka 6q6?
That seems to be a former identifier - I've added it to the keywords.
re: Hawke Field
Reply to @prattsoplenty: Thanks - I've changed the status of the airport to show that it's operational, and added a "private" tag.
re: Hawke Field
Reply to @david: I think it is just closed to the public. The owner has a very nice collection of airplanes including a couple of Harvards, a Waco bi-plane and others that he keeps there.
re: Hawke Field
Reply to @prattsoplenty: Is this no longer in use, or is it just closed to the public?
re: Leading Edge Aviation
Reply to @SPAflyer:
Not anymore, he ran the FBO in the ground with his "business skills", and the county decided to let him run it when they took over. Ain't inbreeding grand?
re: Ice Runway
Reply to @bcrosby: Also PPR as they have security up there. The other ice strip in the CFS is Gahcho Kue CGK2 which is PPR as well.
re: WoW!
There is not to much to comment about the Edzo airport!
El Monte Airport working on a Taxiway?
It seems like El Monte Airport is working on a the taxiway right now. The flight school called Universal Air Academy had many airplanes coming in and out of row 21. I saw N38700 flying too. I didn't fly it so I don't know how it performs but the paint job was still in fairly good condition. Yeah, they do have a "bunch" of Cessnas.
Look what I found - Ernest "Pete" Billow
http://www.eaa.org/apps/obituaries/MemorialWall2.aspx?ID=1006
Mel Ponton again
My first too.
I discovered Trinca in the winter of 1961. I was a senior at Netcong HS with a hankering to fly. I drove up to Trinca one day, didn't see anybody until I located the office. Pete was in there with another guy and I asked about flying lessons and how much they cost. Pete told me they were $12 an hour. At the time I could not afford the price of a full hour so Pete offered to give me half-hour lessons. Then he asked if I had ever been up in a plane and I said no. Then Pete said to the other guy there that a guy should not start taking lessons if he had not been up. Then he said he had to take one of the planes up for some exercise and did I want to go along with him. So, he took me up for the better part of a half-hour. The following weekend I started my half-hour lessons. Usually, at the conclusion of the lesson Pete would take over and we would go for a ride hedge hoping all over the surounding countryside. Boy, sure could he fly that J3.
There was a lady who kept a 172 at the field, here name was/is Roxanne Perona. Toward the end of my instructions Pete told me I should check out in the 172 because it was more appropriate for carrying passengers. It was a VERY windy day and my landings were rough to say the least. So Pete took it around with the intention of showing me how to do it. Well, he had as much trouble bringing it in smoothly as I did and after we were on the ground he taxied over to the office where Rozanne was standing. When he came out of the office he heard Rozanne say, "He isn't going to send you up by yourself is he?" and I told her that he had not said anything to me about going up by myself. Well, he must have heard what Roxanne said and as he was walking toward the plane he surprised Roxanne and I by saying to me, "Why don't you take it around the pattern by yourself a few times." Then he turned around and started heading back to the office and as he did he said to Roxanne, "You have to know when to get out of the airplane, Roxanne."
Pete was a hell of a pilot and a hell of a man. I had heard that he died sometime back - not sure when. I would love to go back up to Trinca and spend some time with him. I guess I should have gone sooner. Let me extend my best wishes to all of you who are "graduates" of Trica. It was a great place to fly. - Mel Ponton, Bloomsbury, NJ
Checked Baggage
If you are carrying electronics (laptop, camera, cell phone, iPod), don't check your baggage. It will be stolen!!!
History Dog Creek Airport
History Dog Creek Airport, becker@ goldcity.net 250/983/3319
Ihave many pictures and much information
While you're in Montmagny...
one of the pilots for Air Montmagny also produces and sells maple syrup from his farm. 7.50$ CAD a can and it's very good. Available from the FBO.
recent visit
visited recently. every pilots dream. great people.
An employee named Lugga
About 15 years ago I met a man that worked at your airport named lugga, I don't recall his last name, I went on a hunting trip with him. My name is Billy Bankston, I live in Dallas Texas, e-mail is 1billyb@windstream.net, if you know this person, I would really love to say hello to him after all these years. If anyone could help me, I would really appreciate it.
awsome new terminal
the best terminal in alberta for an airport this size,manager is excellent
New Runway
Summer of 2009 saw a new paved 4,000 ft runway added (13/31). Lights coming soon.
December of 2009 the restaurant was expanded. Great food.
runway
we have re- done 27 and 09 so it is now all open
Goldfield
Strange yellow "x" markers at each end of well maintained runway. Accident w/172 four passengers, hot day, therefore airport determined to be "undafe". Short walk to town - the "x"s have more to due with liability then actual closure. Interesting town, be sure to visit the Court House / Jail !
Dyer
Excellent mechanic - Dick Tremaine at SE end of field. Dick is famous for flying to where you were forced to land and then getting you to fly again. A good man to know in time of need. 775-572-3059
KMMH
$25 Landing Fee or Fill Up with very expensive fuel !
Sweetwater USMC
Not visible from the nearby highway. Had tie downs for C130's added last year - public & open
good camping
re: Former site of Republic Aviation factory
Reply to @david: The original tower as well as 2 of the hangers remain on the east side of the field. One of which houses the American Airpower Muesum. They have a nice collection of war birds. Memorial day, and Labor day, they usually have airshows, with a few nice fly-ins.
Murphy Hot Springs
Wonderful camp site - fine views - silent. Long walk into Hot Springs - all services there closed, but somewhat interesting no the less. Wonderful country to SW & SE - very much worth the ride.
Chicken Strip
1300 ft usable, el = 1300 land to north, uphill. Landing & departing is at right angles to military buzz path to hot springs - caution advised - no radar advisory below about 9000. monitor 126.55 - may learn of low level activity in Saline MOA. Runway maintained by users.
Fuel
So far the mogas there has been found to be alcohol free. The store and cafe are fun, hot springs to the north.
They don not seem concerned with a taxi to the pumps - landing or departing via highway.
Post-quake: airport of entry
Private GA relief flights are landing here to clear customs, instead of at PAP:
Post-quake: donate instead of flying
Since traffic is heavy and landing slots are needed for larger aircraft that can carry more cargo and personnel, AOPA recommends that instead of volunteering to fly down supplies, small-aircraft owner/pilots donate what the flight would have cost them:
Post-quake: U.S. airliners returning empty
U.S. airlines are flying in relief supplies, but because of a lack of functioning security screening, the U.S. won't let them evacuate most American visitors back out, so the flights are returning empty:
http://www.usatoday.com/travel/flights/item.aspx?type=blog&ak=15626.blog
Dwight Airport
I had visited this airport on foot back in 2007. It says on the map that it's closed, but it's really a private grass/dirt airstrip. I wasn't able to get in touch with the owner at the time.
past times
My wife spent her formative years here when her dad was stationed here in the late 50's early 60's His name was Harry Bisset ex Royal Air Force WWII Bomber crew Master Air Eng.
Great place
This is one of the best around if you like small town living and really nice people. When you are feed up with the new yorkers this is the place for you.
airplane CIS injection
Reply to @flybob:
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856-283-7503
no winter maintenance
shows o winter maintenance. Lookig to see if it is open at all in the winter. Will check cfs or notams.
re: Hansen Airfield
super cool folks. I recently completed a water improvement contract for BC Parks at Smelt Bay adjacent to Hansen airfield, Bought gravel from Jim and Diane, got to know them a bit, very nice folks, real salt-of-the-earth people. Watch out, 4 hours will pass and you'll still be drinking coffee, hearing great stories from Jim and Diane. The guy has a nice new little Hitachi excavator and an old Cat dozer, that airstrip is getting better and better.
have fun flying here....
Runway numbers
The new runway numbers are 33 and 15.
Mustang Beach
Wow, this is a COOL beachside resort. A throwback to the surf towns of the 60's and 70's. Everyone takes it nice and easy, certainly a drastic change from the hustle and bustle of nearby Houston (about 1.5 hrs away by Archer or the like). It's a little far from town, but there is a cheap bus that runs roughly hourly, and inside the "FBO" building there are phone numbers for local taxi service that will pick you up in a few minutes.
Free Wifi!
🔗 Mon, 15 Mar 2010
— @david at Ottawa Macdonald-Cartier International Airport, Canada
YOW now offers free WiFi to everyone in their departure areas. With short security lines and free WiFi, the airport really beats the crap out of bigger ones like YOW and YUL. Customs lines can be long in rush hour, but are pretty good the rest of the time.