jhbecker
Around The Moon
The Orcas Island EAA Chapter hosts a fly-in every year on the first weekend in August. There is no fee and there aren't any big time vendors selling their wares, but we get a lot of airplane friendly people to socialize with. The weather is usually great and it's a beautiful place to fly. The Fire Department holds a pancake breakfast fund raiser both Saturday and Sunday morning 7-11am. and the Kwainis Club operates a food shack until about 8pm Friday and Saturday and 2pm on Sunday. Plus, Eastsound Village is only a 1/4 mile walk down a lovely trail from the south end of the airport.
General Bill Anders (Apollo Astronout) lives on Orcas and usually has several of his planes from his Heritage Flight Museum located at Skagit Regional Airport (moved from Bellingham last spring) on the flight line to see. And "The Black Jacks" from Arlington, WA will do their usual formation fly-bys on Saturday. Plus a few of our own local warbird pilots do a couple low passes. Also, the Classic Car Club has their anual get together the same weekend on the south east corner of the airport grounds and the local RC Airplane club does an airshow (though that is about a one mile walk from the airport).
This year Oshkosh is the same weekend so we don't know quite what to expect for the turn-out. In the past we were usually a week later. Usually we've had anywhere from 150 to as many as 220 planes come in. Most come for the day, though many do "camp out under the wing". Camping is allowed on the airport year round, but the fee is waived for the fly-in weekend.
Below are links to the "Port of Orcas" and the "Orcas Chamber of Commerce" web pages if you want info about the airport and the island. I'll be helping park planes, Look for the guy with the "Sundowner N836KT" hat.
http://www.portoforcas.com/events/
http://orcasislandchamber.com/
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General Bill Anders (Apollo Astronout) lives on Orcas and usually has several of his planes from his Heritage Flight Museum located at Skagit Regional Airport (moved from Bellingham last spring) on the flight line to see. And "The Black Jacks" from Arlington, WA will do their usual formation fly-bys on Saturday. Plus a few of our own local warbird pilots do a couple low passes. Also, the Classic Car Club has their anual get together the same weekend on the south east corner of the airport grounds and the local RC Airplane club does an airshow (though that is about a one mile walk from the airport).
This year Oshkosh is the same weekend so we don't know quite what to expect for the turn-out. In the past we were usually a week later. Usually we've had anywhere from 150 to as many as 220 planes come in. Most come for the day, though many do "camp out under the wing". Camping is allowed on the airport year round, but the fee is waived for the fly-in weekend.
Below are links to the "Port of Orcas" and the "Orcas Chamber of Commerce" web pages if you want info about the airport and the island. I'll be helping park planes, Look for the guy with the "Sundowner N836KT" hat.
http://www.portoforcas.com/events/
http://orcasislandchamber.com/
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