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Airport Steakhouse - Mattoon, IL (KMTO) - Saturday - June 6, 2026

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Airport Steakhouse - Mattoon, IL (KMTO) - Saturday - June 6, 2026

Fly into Coles County Memorial and join us at the Airport Steakhouse. Home of the Elephant Ear Tenderloin. The restaurant is located on the field. Arrive by 11:00am CDT.

NOTAM: Runway 06, Runway 11, and Runway 18 (grass) are Right traffic.




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Do I see that you have not landed in Maryland? Let me extend an invitation to KHGR Hagerstown, where they have a first class restaurant on field, KMTN where we have a good restaurant a few blocks away, or any other airport you wish.
 
6008D is finally wrapping up the autopilot install next week, but I’ve also got conflicts tomorrow. Really looking forward to getting back in the air and meeting for lunch! Chris
 
FWIW: for interesting BAC past experience; Jane and I got stuck at MTO with a flat tire on Sunday Sept 23, 2023 when returning from BACFest2023 in Oskosh! The restaurant was closing, but invited us in anyhow, and cooked us an "elephant ear" tenderloin which we shared and greatly enjoyed. We had to RON waiting for a very nice lady mechanic on Monday morning.
If that wasn't enough experience at MTO, my son was flying to OSH last year with me (so we could do the FISK approach one time together while I can still do it), weather was moving in so we stopped at MTO for fuel and decided to RON due to the very bad WX. It happened that the EPA had shut down the water system in Mattoon due to serious contamination! So we quickly got back airborne, and flew to Champaign IL to RON, paid to hangar the plane, and resumed out flight IFR the next day to Mason City Iowa to meet up with Trumpet for a Friday 2 ship "flight of two" into OSH on Friday morning. Quite an experience passing thru MTO a few times! Please tell the staff that my wife and I really appreciated their hospitality in 2023.
 
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