Lancair McMinnville, Oregon Fly In

Saturday, July 10, 2010

You’re invited to a Lancair Fly In at McMinnville, Oregon, identifier KMMV, Saturday, July 10, 2010.  We’ll meet at the airport Saturday morning and spend the day at the famous Evergreen Aviation Museum across the highway from the airport.  Lunch will be in the museum cafe. 

The museum has 150 airplanes, including a Lancair.  The most famous airplane in their collection is Howard Hughes’ Spruce Goose.  I thought I’d seen big airplanes before, but it is bigger than big.  A new space museum opened two years ago with missiles, space capsules, satellites, an SR-71, and many other exhibits related to space flight.  There is also  an IMAX theater.  Here’s the link:

http://www.sprucegoose.org/

The fly in is a week after the Fourth of July and two weeks before Oshkosh.  It’s the same weekend as the Arlington EAA fly in.  I recommend McMinnville on Saturday, spend the night at a nearby hotel, and then Arlington on Sunday.  It’s about 185 nautical miles from MMV to Arlington.  Or do Arlington on Friday and join us at MMV Saturday morning.  Here’s the link for the Arlington Fly In:

http://www.arlingtonflyin.org/default.cfm

No need to RSVP yet.  I’ll ask for a headcount a few weeks before the fly in.

Dennis Johnson

pinetownd@volcano.net