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History of "Searcy Field"
Searcy Field (now Stillwater Regional Airport) was a storage and disposal site for 475 combat airplanes after World War II. Paul Mantz purchased all 475 aircraft for $55,000 in 1944. He kept only 12 of them, selling the rest for in parts and for scrap. Between that and the sale of the fuel drained from the fleet, he made a nice profit. The remaining aircraft he used in the making of Hollywood movies.
Gorgeous
Another one of my Favs!
Bronson Creek
This gravel strip is still in great shape and the camp is alive and well in the summer months (Summer 2007). My favourite airport ever.
American naval base
Although this base is located in Cuba, it's under American control due to a long-term lease signed -- its the U.S.'s oldest overseas base, and the only one in a hostile country. It has received a lot of news coverage recently because of its use as a prison camp during the Afghanistan and Iraq wars.
World War II history
During the second world war, Gananoque (pronounced "gan-an-AH-kway") was a relief landing field for the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan (BCATP) No. 31 school in nearby Kingston. It has had little modification since, and still maintains the classic BCATP triangular shape (with three runways so that taildraggers could always land into the wind) and, I believe, some of the original World War II structures.
Very narrow strip - watch for muddy spots!
This strip is at the bottom of the canyon, parallel to the river. The lower portions are prone to flooding and the mud is very heavy - your wheels will get bogged down. If it looks wet, do NOT land here! Otherwise, it is a spectacular setting and a wonderful place to hike and take photos.
Nice Little Place!
Very quaint old-style country airstrip. Self serve fuel, friendly people. There is a Husky dealer (Wayne Clements) on the field. You can buy a nice house on the property close to the hangars or the strip.
Good Fuel Stop at Wichita
There is a full-service FBO here. The airport is at the north edge of town, away from the complicated airspace around the other (12+?) airports at Wichita. Fuel is expensive, but they have lots of hangars in case of thunderstorms during an overnight stop. Lots of hotels with shuttles to pick you up.
Historic airport (kind of)
The Nut Tree shopping center is an easy walk from this airport. The Nut Tree was, in the 40's and 50's, a rest stop half-way between San Francisco to Sacramento on U.S. 40. That was when U.S. 40 was a 2-lane road. The Nut Tree was a "Destination" that boasted its own airport. Nowadays, the Nut Tree is just another shopping mall surrounded by suburbia and the drive from S.F. to Sacramento takes an hour and a half on I-80. Even still, it is a good place to go if you're looking for an easy flight to something more than a just a restaurant.
This is the "training airport" for the KSAC flight schools
This airport is about 10 nm S of KSAC. This is where the pilots flying out of KSAC (including me) go to practice touch-and-go's, emergency landings and so forth. It can be quite busy on VFR weekends.
Great place to take a date
The town of Columbia is a restore Gold Rush town and is a very short walk from the airport. Many restaurants and shops.
Need to be a little careful landing.. it's easy to come in too fast on final.
BE-20 CHARTER
Friendly people and cheap gas.. 3.50 a gal. for Jet A. Very quiet.
Tough to find, at night.
For some reason I had a super hard time finding this airport at night coming from the south east.
Did a touch and go to build some night x-country time on runway 27. Tower guy was super friendly.
Closed in 2006
From 1964 until it closed in 2006, this airport was home to the Northwest Antique Airplane Club and the annual Evergreen fly-in. It was sold in 2006, but as of early 2008, had not yet been redeveloped.
re: Where it all began
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re: Mathis Airport
1550 feet long, according to the FAA.
Mathis Airport
This one's Short
One of Georgias finest
Many of my family members live here so I visit often. Friendly service, courtesy vehicles, jump school.
New control tower
The FAA has started building a new 336-foot control tower for the Memphis airport, close to the existing one -- it will be finished in 2011:
Direct flights from Dayton to Myrtle Beach start 23 May
Offered by Southern Skyways:
Gimli Glider
This is where the "Gimli Glider", an Air Canada Boeing 767, made its famous power-off emergency landing in 1983:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimli_Glider
Air Canada retired the 767 from its fleet nearly 25 years later, on January 24, 2008, sending it to a bone yard in the Mojave Desert:
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/manitoba/story/2008/01/24/gimli-glider.html
Cessna 172 accident
On Saturday, 12 January, 2008, a Cessna 172 crashed into Old Tampa Bay about 800 feet short of the runway at St Petersburg Clearwater:
http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/brief.asp?ev_id=20080123X00090&key=1
Midair collision near airport
Two Cessna collided a mile southwest of the Corona airport on Sunday 20 January 2008, killing all four occupants and one person on the ground:
15 new gates in Concourse B
Dulles has just opened an extension with 15 new domestic gates in Concourse B. JetBlue, Virgin America, and AirTran are coming in first, and American and Delta will take some of the gates later:
Airport Identifier: 2FA7, Home of Aeromarine West Indies Air
Kathrinstadt Airport is a private airport located approximately 25 miles southwest of St. Augustine, Florida. Because it is registered with the FAA as a “Private Airport,” access is restricted, and limited to aircraft who receive landing clearance from the airport manager. Kathrinstadt Airport, besides being modeled after a 1920's style aerodrome, is also noted as being the maintenance airfield of Aeromarine West Indies Airways Corporation, an up-and-coming scheduled passenger airline service and aviation center.
Operational specifics are as follows:
Coordinates: Latitude 29° 38' 7" and Longitude 81° 27' 55"
Airport Identifier: 2FA7
Landing Surface: grass (turf)
Runway Length: 700 ft.
Runway Width: 110 ft.
Orientation of Runway: 09-27 (east-west)
Obstructions: trees at both approach ends of runways
Airport Indicators: lighted windsock, lighted segmented circle
Traffic Pattern: right traffic Runway 9 and left traffic Runway 27
Unicom frequency: 122.9
Operations: VFR only
Based Aircraft: 2 aircraft currently based at this airport (1 multi-engine and 1 single-engine)
Facilities: there is one maintenance hangar located at the center/north side of the runways.
Airport Hours: airport is attended 7 days a week, 24 hours a day.
Security: 24 hour armed security, electric/barbed wire fencing, motion sensing cameras.
Contact information: the airport manager can be contacted via email at Aeromarine.Airways@yahoo.com or by phone at the Aeromarine Office @ 386-325-3534.
Services: general mainenance facilities for Aeromarine West Indies Airways Corp only.
Information about Aeromarine West Indies Airways can be found at: http://aeromarine-airways.com/
Operational warnings: besides being restricted to those aircraft who secure clearance from the airport manager, extreme care must be exercised with regards to operations. Kathrinstadt Airport is to be considered for use by STOL aircraft, aircraft with STOL characteristics, and ultralights only! Also, ONLY experienced airmen are to be granted operational clearance to use Kathrinstadt Airport, and this at the airport manager’s discretion.
The airport manager can be contacted via e-mail at the following:
Kathrinstadt_Airport@yahoo.com
The airport address:
Kathrinstadt Airport
10460 Turpin Ave.
Hastings, Florida. 32145
The airport manager can be reached via Unicom, or by phone at the Aeromarine office:
Unicom frequency: 122.9
Flight office: 386-325-3534
Good place to land in an emergency
This is an abandoned former cold war military runway which is still in better shape than some places where I've had to pay landing fees. It's right by highway 117 if you need to be rescued.
Only public fuel stop in the Saguenay region
Popular fuel stop on your way up north.
Only fuel in Quebec city area
The only seaplane base that has public fuel in the Quebec city area. Lac St-Augustin is closer to downtown but they don't take visitors anymore.
Good fuel stop
Ste-Véronique is one of the few places in the Laurentians where there is public fuel available. Lots of room, quick service.
Alpine Air Beech 1900 crash
A Beech 1900 on a mail run went down 7 miles short of runway 35 on 14 January 2008:
http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/brief.asp?ev_id=20080117X00067&key=1
Marina Venise
Marina Venise is also close to downtown, but no easy public transit connexion to Montreal. 100LL available but no maintenance. There is also a helipad.
Boisvert & fils
Probably the closest seaplane base to downtown Montreal. 100LL and maintenance available. Dock for about 3 planes, and a ramp an tractor. They take your plane in and out of the water if you stay longer than a few hours. About 100 yards from a bus stop; 15 minutes drive from downtown. It's just outside of the CYUL tower control zone; if you arrive via the VFR corridor to the north (over the Riviere des Prairies) below 1300 you don't need a transponder code or prior ATC clearance. Local frequency is 123.2 (uncontrolled airport).
Beware of traffic from nearby Mascouche airport (CKS3) to the north. It's advisable to monitor 122.65.
Also there is a private strip and seaplane docks between Boisvert and Masouche called Contant/Laval Aviation.
Norcross?
I doubt this is correctly located as it appears to be in the middle of the interchange at I390 and Scottsville Rd. Their address is on Airpark drive which is a few hundred metres down the road. Come to think of it, I think there is a building down there with a windsock on the roof.
"Montreal's US airport"
Plattsburgh International (a former air force base) is 100 km from downtown Montreal (Canada), and draws heavily on Montreal for its airline business. Several carriers, including Allegiant and Xtra, offer flights to destinations like Myrtle Beach, SC and Niagara Falls, NY. General aviation has moved here from nearby Clinton County (PLB), which has mostly shut down.
TSB final report for Caravan crash
The Transportation Safety Board of Canada has released its final report on the Cessna 208 Caravan that crashed in January 2006 while trying glide to the Port Alberni Airport after an engine failure (five out of eight occupants survived):
http://www.tsb.gc.ca/en/reports/air/2006/a06p0010/a06p0010.asp
EAA skiplane fly-in, Saturday 26 January 2008
The Oshkosh Pioneer Airport has enough snow on the ground to host the fly-in on 26 January. More information is available at the Air Venture Museum site:
Fun airport!
I had to divert to Bancroft during a XC. What a great approach and departure! Reminded me of flying floats all over again. Lots of fun, and friendly people.
Smoking areas at Indianapolis International
The airport has reactivated its five designated smoking areas until 30 June 2008. After that, smoking will be permanently banned anywhere on airport property except inside privately-owned vehicles:
Nice strip
One of the best grass strips I've seen
Waterloo-Wellington stopped selling fuel
As of 1 September 2007, the Waterloo-Wellington Flight Centre stopped selling fuel, so it's available only from Flite Line.
re: Information?
It looks like a private grass strip on a farm. There are lots of those around, but they don't usually show up in the CFS. Contact info for the owner is in the CFS, so you can call him for permission in late May, once the ground is hard enough to use the runway.
Information?
This airport is listed in the CFS, however I can't seem to find any photos of what the field looks like.
I would like to visit some family in Cobalt, Ontario and flying to New Liskeard would be ideal.
Is this airport still available, or has it been abandoned?
American architecture exhibit
Until 24 February 2008, the Tulsa airport is running an exhibit showing (pictures? models?) of the top 150 buildings, bridges, etc. in the U.S., as selected by the American Institute of Architects:
Former site of Republic Aviation factory
This mall is built on the site of the former the Republic Aviation Corporation. During World War II, it built over 9,000 P-47 Thunderbolts together with several other aircraft. Fairchild bought out the company in 1965, and the plant closed in 1988. The last building was demolished in 1997 to make way for a mall expansion.
My base airport
Great GA airport on the edge of DFW. It's thriving: just renovated runway and plans for new tower next year, increasing traffic.
Building map
There's a building map and legend available here:
Area 51
This airport serves the infamous "Area 51", and the identifier "(K)XTA" looks like a parody of space alien conspiracy theories ("XTA" = "extraterrestrial"?):
http://www.aopa.org/aircraft/articles/2008/080110area51.html
New service from Skybus
Skybus will begin scheduled service to GYY from Greensboro, NC on 13 March:
New service from Skybus
Skybus will begin scheduled flights from Columbus, OH to ILG on 7 March, and from Greensboro, NC to ILG on 13 March 2008:
Customs
🔗 Fri, 15 Feb 2008
— @david at Cornwall Regional Airport, Canada
This is a good place to clear Canada Customs flying to Ottawa from Boston or New York (during normal business hours only). It's a small, uncontrolled airport, but it does have a non-precision instrument approach, and you can use the TAF for Massena, NY (KMSS), right across the St. Lawrence River. When I stopped on Valentine's Day 2008 on my way home from Boston, the Unicom was staffed and helpful, and the runway, taxiway, and apron were all clear, despite a heavy snowfall the day before.