Another year come and gone at Blakesburg, and it was a good year with more than 320 airplanes - official count to come soon. Several days of very hot gave way to rain showers Saturday afternoon, but the showers lifted leaving cooler temps and beautiful CAVU air and sunsets Saturday and Sunday. The flying was good Thursday and Friday, and it became glorious on Saturday and Sunday evening.

Over the next couple of weeks I'll be publishing photos from the fly-in, publishing the award winners list, chapter challenges, and generally trying to catch up from two weeks of flying. In the meantime I've had a few hours from an mid-afternoon stop on the trip home to post some photos.

If you have photos of the fly-in that you'd like to share, please send them to me at webmaster@antiqueairfield.com and Brent Taylor antiqueairfield@sirisonline.com. I'll be editing down a set of photo pages from the fly-in for permanent viewing on this site.

Russell Williams

Monocoupes were the featured aircraft at this year's fly-in, and there was an excellent turn out. Here's a montage of scenes around the 'Coupes. Photos by Gilles Auliard and Don Thun.

James Savage converted photos from Saturday morning at the Blakesburg 2011 fly-in into videos for your viewing pleasure. Thanks James!

Bob Juranich has flown his Command-Aire 5C-3 for the first time this weekend out of Auburn Airport, Auburn WA. Restoration work was performed by the Juranich family and Bob Johnson. The aircraft now has a Continental 220 and flies well.

Over three hundred airplanes have been on the field by Saturday morning. Here are a couple of photos from Friday evening by Don Thun.

Here are a few photos of the action at Blakesburg on Thursday, courtesy of Richard Hawley.

A hot and windy Thursday saw the arrival of more planes and people at the 2011 AAA/APM fly-in. Total aircraft count at present is 198 with a wide variety of aircraft from points as far away as Maine, California, Washington State, Texas, Arizona, New York, Georgia & Oregon. Enjoy tonight's night shot featuring a Stearman 4E.

Day one of the AAA/APM Fly-in has come to an end. Though hot and humid we ended the day with 90 aircraft on the ground at Antique Airfield. Included are several Wacos and Stearmans, two Travelairs, six Monocoupes and one Mullicope, a very rare Rearwin 8090 and the replica Stinson "O".

Brent Taylor

Tonight's Antique Airfield night shot features a Monocoupe 110 spl. and a Monocoupe 90aw.