With better weather on the way (it was here last week, we’re hoping it will return soon), we’re getting ready to host our first theme day of the summer. And to celebrate warmer weather, we’re going to kick things off with an open cockpit day on Saturday, June 12. If you have an open cockpit airplane, we encourage you to fly in and enjoy a relaxing day in the North Cascades. And if you don’t we encourage you to fly or drive in to have a look at some of the open cockpit airplanes that will be here at 3W5.
In preparing for open cockpit day, we realized one of our most active open cockpit airplanes wasn’t even on our website yet, so we finally added the Waco INF to the website. The Kinner powered INF is from 1930 and is flown regularly when the weather is good here in Concrete and we’ll be flying it on June 12.
Of course we will also have several of our other open cockpit airplanes out of the hangars including the PT-19, the Baby Great Lakes, the Rose Parakeet and we’re hoping to get the Baby Ace in the air.
Of course there are lots of other airplanes to look at as well. If you haven’t seen our Bulldog project, it’s sitting in the shop with its new engine, right next to the open cockpit Waco QCF-2 fuselage.
We’ll start pulling airplanes out of the hangars around 9am and will have the grill out with some hamburgers and hot dogs. We hope you’ll join us on June 12 to celebrate summer with some open cockpit flying.
