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Hey....Wickenheiser Airport...love it!
Wickenheiser Airport..Tell me more about your Airport..and how it came to be.. drop me a note.
Todd Wickenheiser, Golden B.C. Canada.
They have aliens
Aliens are housed here in kennels and pens. They are shuttled in at night to avoid detection.
Hi, I like your layout! Lon mentioned your aeropuerto and
Hi Mr. Beene, I am John Higgins. I have a sgtrong interest in flying, have trained in Cessna's, Avid's, and Quicksilver two-place oh wing. Am interested in a pontonned plane i saw on the water near Crusier Haven. Can't get to it from the road. maybe you could help me jump in! (Just kidding) It looks like a quiksilver fitted with floats. Llike to meet you. John Higgins 925-209-7786 cieloesprit@hotmail.com
Kay's Restaurant
Very good. Seems to get a fair local non-airport trade in addition to itinerant pilots. The soft drinks are served in large mason jars, and the lemonade was delicious and welcome on a hot day. I had the ham-and-cheese club sandwich w/ fries. The tomato was fresh local produce; a good value at $6.50.
re: Nice little airport
Reply to @paulie: Yup, food is good there. Sat mornings folks from around Wisc fly in for breakfast. I haven't made that particular trip there, but I here that 10-15 planes will show up on a busy morning.
The terrain is quite pretty as the Wisc river has been a protected waterway for ages and very little development was ever permitted along it.
Can be slightly difficult to find. VOR or GPS will be your friend to get you close unless you stay pretty high so you can see down into the river valley to spot it.
re: Awful airport for visiting NYC
Reply to @david: The way to use ewr is to use airtrain - same with jfk - really cheap and easy - $5 or $10 + train ride, bypass traffic
re: anyone flown into here from Canada?
Yes, I've cleared customs at ART. Unfortunately, I had to wait 30 minutes, because the customs people forgot about the meeting and didn't leave the bridge until I called on my cell phone.
If it's VFR weather, a better option is 89N Alexandria Bay/Maxson Field:
http://www.ourairports.com/airports/89N/
It's much closer to the Thousand Islands Bridge, so it's easier for the officers, and you don't have to wait as long if they forget.
Syracuse (KSYR) also has customs nearby, as does Ogdensburg (KOGS), which is at the next bridge down from the Thousand Islands Bridge.
re: anyone flown into here from Canada?
I have, but only pre-9/11. It required 2 hours prior notice by phone, and don't you *dare* get out of the plane before the customs guy gets there. (Although it's ok to stand on the wing and pee if you have to - but only if you have a low-wing.)
anyone flown into here from Canada?
anyone flown into here from Canada?
Worth the journey
The Tuskegee Airmen Museum in Hangar One at Moton is a moving memorial for the intrepid flyers who beat the obstacles as black airmen in WWII. Their success is an inspiration for every pilot.
Pork ????
Really nice airport. Too bad it is deserted... looks like a pork project gone bad.
re: KCXY
Great airport, great service and great customer service personnel. An airport you have to give a try
re: KCXY
Reply to @TwinCoFlyer: That's great news! There were too many horror stories from UFS-Aero.
KCXY
Everybody should know that the FBO at CXY has been replaced. CXY Aviation is the new FBO. UFS-Aero is gone and thankfully so. NOW THERE ARE NO RAMP FEES, NONE. THERE IS STILL A LANDING FEE WHICH IS WAIVED FOR FUEL PURCHASES OR ANY OTHER SERVICES DONE BY ANY OF THE BUSINESSES ON THE FIELD. There are new hangers built and available. There are other maintanence shops. "Aircraft Maintanence Services" and "Wings and Things" to mention two. The new FBO is developing a new flight school and other facilities. Fuel is once again competitively priced. The Tower personal are great and very helpful. Give KCXY a try and I believe that you will not be dissatisfied.
Thanks for your consideration.
Bomb scare
Early in the morning of 1 August 2009, LaGuardia was evacuated because of a passenger carrying a fake bomb, resulting in huge delays:
http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2009/08/01/laguardia-evacuted.html
KSKA
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Find Gillespie Field Businesses
For a list of Businesses and Services at Gillespie Field visit GillespieField.com
Awesome Airport
did my first takeoff there! Left Traffic patern
Light rail into Boston
This station is about 4 miles from the west side of the field, and just over 2 miles' drive from the east side, on the Newburyport/Rockport light rail commuter line into Boston. The fare to Boston's North Station as of July 2009 was $6.25 ($3.10 senior/disabled), and you can take the subway from there to other parts of Boston.
Easy stop over
Nice air strip - looks like they may have either just built this, or they expanded it recently. FBO is a trailer, but very welcoming. Line crew (Kyle) was right there on the line with my rental car and tied the plane down. Very friendly and helpful. Hertz rental car had the car there on time, but it was dirty inside and out and was actually pretty tired for a rental - 38,000 on a rental is a lot - sounded like they were losing a wheel bearing in front - very loud - so not any kudos for them. Very convenient for me since I have business in both DC and Richmond - right in the middle and outside the SFRA - which is why I think there were some serious jets parked as well.
Local info
It doesn't seem to be widely known but, you can get lunch here at the Prudhoe Bay Hotel, a half-mile walk from the gravel transient parking area!
Former student at Lincoln Park Airport
This is the first time I have seen this website, and I am pleased to see the response from others about the airport.
Back in 1962 on my sixteenth birthday my grandfather paid for my first lesson.
The plane was a Piper PA-11, tail number 4549M. The instructor was H.T. Buckley.
The lesson was only thirty minutes but the memory lasted a lifetime. That day I was introduced to Ed Gorski and his wife, and other pilots were in the office on that day. After that first flight, I spent every dollar I earned going back for more, for I could not get enough of this new experience which completely changed my life. I remember after I had soloed once or twice Ed would ride in the back seat for the first couple of landings, to make sure I was able to handle the cross wind conditions, he always seemed to have a cigar in his mouth and yelling orders from the back seat about what I was doing wrong. When I fly today I can still hear his voice and it brings back back fond memories.
There is a lot more that I would l like to share about my experiences at the Lincoln Park airport but the website does not allow the space it would require. I thank you for the opportunity to share my experiences.
Robert J. Ruck sales@class1tool.com
0NJ5 Fla Net
Devil of a time in Flight Sim 2004 landing a Grumman Duck on this hard-to-find little strip, and I REFUSE to
use GPS on this trip !! If I can't eyeball it, I'm not setting down on it.
ramp fee
$25 bucks for me to drop off a friend from my C172 seems somewhat excessive. Understand they need to make money and have no issue with that, but attach a value to the service. I was at the ramp for a moment and they had their hand out. Will go out of my way to avoid Exec air again.
re: Fiddymint field gone!
Reply to @ptomblin: Yes, it's still in the database, but if you look closely at the satellite pic, you can see a network of residential roads starting on the right, then fading out where an older picture of the airport is stitched in. Switch from satellite to map view, and the roads continue right onto the airport property. I think we have to conclude that the FAA record just hasn't been updated yet (nobody bothered to tell them). I'm going to switch the airport to 'closed', at least for now.
re: Fiddymint field gone!
It's still in the 02July09 FAA database.
Fiddymint field gone!
Condo's built over it!
Jim V/Freedom Field
Better
this is really close to my home i like it cause then i dont have to drive far
Latest FAA data
The latest FAA dataset has this airport's id as "54X", but that could be a mistake on their part. They've made worse mistakes in the past.
Fond-ish memories
I remember many evenings spent in LAX terminal 2 in the late 1990s, waiting to catch the red-eye back to Toronto to connect on to Ottawa and get back to my young family. I hear a lot of horror stories about LAX and Air Canada now, but back then, before the merger with Canadian, Air Canada never left me stranded or let me down. I'd fight my way back to LAX from Long Beach through the rush-hour traffic, drop off my rental car, then find a plug, huddle in a safe warm corner, and work on my computer for a few hours, generally grabbing a bite from the Wolfgang Puck franchise restaurant thingy and happy knowing that I was on the first stage of my trip home.
I've been through terminal 2 a few times since, but not for the red-eye. Air Canada still generally leaves on time, but I'm not rushing back to young kids and a tired spouse any more, so it's more leisurely, and the terminal is just another dingy terminal.
Pemberton Airport, New Jersey
Pemnerton Airport is a " Down Home Type " Airport, and is a great place to visit. The Pilots, and regular folks are very nice. Jim 47N
The Original Berz Airport in Troy
I use to work at the original Berz Airport off maple rd in the 60's as a teenager for Milt Jr. and his Dad , who we all called "Pappy" he was a great man to work for and I think Sharon was the girl that use to talk to all the pilots. There was another elderly man that use to make coffee in the mornings for all the people that use to just hang out in the terminal, but can't remember his name right now. My father bought into a piper 180 and had it in a hanger, I myself use to fuel the plane and wash them I really enjoyed working there , except when we had to get up at 2 am in the morning and plow the runways because to much snow fallin that night. Jeff Moffett (geoffreyfaulknerz28_47@msn.com)
re: fuel purchase
The airport is shown on the sectional chart as a circle without the 3 bumps, which means no services. Your best option may be to go to KTPH.
fuel purchase
where does one buy fuel to refuel their plane
Airlines
Do airlines still fly out of Houlton?
OY-JET
If you want to see cluelessness in action, google for the OY-JET video. A jet registered in Denmark "landed" at Bader Field, landing downwind on a runway NOTAMed against jet operations, touched down at about the half way point on a runway that would have been too small for that jet even without a tail wind and without leaving half the runway behind them, skidded into the bay, and then after everybody was evacuated one of the jet engines seemed to start up and start pushing the plane around the bay.
re: Just had to get this one in while it is still on the map
Reply to @XingR:
And that's one of the excuses they always use for closing airports. They build these monstrosities near the approaches (even though there are usually lots of other places they COULD build them) and then later claim that "it's dangerous to have an airport near all these people." In this case, they even build a sports stadium basicaly *ON* the airfield. *sigh*
Ride with Ed in 1954 (Tri_Pacer)
I'll keep it short, me and friend Garry Flipped a coin for the right seat on a ride, garry won and as we were flying gracious Ed asked if he knew something about flying, He said yes and Ed said take over and Garry gripped the control wheel then Ed asked for a turn and Garry quickly performed a split-S (which would have made an SBD pilot envious) and had me viewing the Totowa Drive-In parking lot thru the windscreen. Ed calmly cut the throttle and very gently recovered to straight and level. Cigar smoking Ed never lost it and just verbally said thats not how you do it.
Just a little 50s aviation trivia involving some past events. Garry went on to get his license many years later, and a 172.
Rich S.
re: Talkeetna Airport Noise Pollution and Invation of Privac
Talkeetna airport opened in 1949. Unless you're over 60 years old, the airport got there before you did.
Talkeetna Airport Noise Pollution and Invation of Privacy
The Talkeetna Airport and the massive amount of summer tourist flights (mostly going to Denali) is a major contributor to noise pollution and invasion of privacy in the small town of Talkeetna and the surrounding area. The local residents who live here all year and don't make money off tourism should have the right to enjoy their summers also without having to wear ear plugs just to get some piece and quiet. The small planes constantly going over our homes sometimes too low is also an invasion of our privacy and a major annoyance. The only locals who are for tourism are the ones making money off them. Tourism has ruined Talkeetna it has become a town of tourist whores.
re: Berz Macomb Airport
I used to fly into Berz occasionally when I lived in Troy. In fact, I bought my first airplane there. My partner took flying lessons there and he happened to see a for sale sign in the window of a Piper Arrow just at the time we were looking. Sorry to see another nice GA airport gone in favor of urban sprawl and more sorry to hear of Milt's passing. He was a true friend of aviation.
Tom Altobello
re: Burke
Reply to @jerryp: Looks like it's close to Progressive Field as well. I might fly in for a baseball game this summer.
re: FBO and airport fees
Reply to @david: I was there today and once again I had to pay a $150.00 ramp fee, and what did I get for it? NOTHING!!! The TV never works and now they do not have a crew car. I asked them twice and thought maybe someone would offer us a ride but they told us twice that we could walk to the stripmall. Unless I absolutely have to go to KCXY I will go to KMDT!!!
my first solo
I took flight training and took my first solo flight out of GHG (formerly 3B2). It's a lovely place, right on the beach and managed by great people and a comfortable, new facility. This is a great place to fly!
re: What is it actually called?
This airport is called "Denali Airport", but it's private. I suspect you're looking for the nearby "McKinley National Park Airport" (PAIN) that belongs to the Park Service:
What is it actually called?
What is the specific name of the Denali Airport. Im doing a project on the Denali National Park and need the name of it.
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Nice town
Nice airport.
Use shuttle to town $ 2.00
Great American Airport!
Venice Municipal Airport is a wonderful airport. It is steeped in history, big and safe, and beautifully located.
French Valley Airport
Great food.
Andover
🔗 Thu, 20 Aug 2009
— @Aristotle at Aeroflex-Andover Airport, United States
It has a nice park attached to it. Bring food and drinks (nothing to buy there) and enjoy the view of the lake and the little Piper Cubs landing on the grass runway. It's a great place to practice short field landings. There is water on both ends, so you can come rather low and cross the threshold lower that usual. All times I have been there, I never used more than half the runway for a complete stop.