Over the 4th of July weekends I ventured up to the PNW for a bit of aimless wandering around in the C120. Wow are there a lot of airports up there. And even better, a lot of open circles on the charts (public unpaved airports)...sure looking forward to getting back up there.

Those "State Airports" that OR and WA provide are all really an amazing resource. I wish CA had that sort of foresight to provide such cool infrastructure to the flying community.

https://youtu.be/9axEaG0z5bY

You really put in some miles on that trip! I recognize most of those airports, been into most of them in a 120 also! You landed at Fly For Fun in Vancouver where I grew up. My mom and dad still live there with his 120 in a hangar in the back yard.

I once fought for a bunch of them behind Mt. Hamilton.
Actually went to Sacramento with a stack of petitions.

The man was polite but gave me a lesson by saying,
You see that stack of personal letters?
Each single letter carries more political "weight"
than the hundred signatures on ONE of your petitions.

So Dstn- It is not that some of us did not try.

Chris C
Friend of Chris Martin

Rob, didn't realize you're from up there! Yeah Fly-For-Fun is a cool place. Is their's the 120 under the shade hangar on the south side? I tell you, all those neat grass strips around there will spoil a tailwheel pilot real quick.

Need to go back; lots more to explore. Camera was dead for a lot of the other ones. Managed 46 airports on the entire trip; about 26 hours of flying over 5 days. Sky Harbor east of First Air was probably one of the top ones of the trip. Also managed a few down in CA on the way back (Borges-Clarksburg, Bee Keeper's (no idea what the real name is), Red Hills). More videos to come.

-FlyingFiddler (Dustin)

Chris C, good to know the battle was fought. We'll see if one day we can shift the tide some and get back some of those lost strips. I keep a database of as many as I can in hopes that one day the opinions may change.

"Make Washington the safest state in which to fly" A little history of some of the Washington State owned airstrips
https://books.google.com/books?id=0_06S ... lt&f=false

Fiddler wrote:Rob, didn't realize you're from up there! Yeah Fly-For-Fun is a cool place. Is their's the 120 under the shade hangar on the south side? I tell you, all those neat grass strips around there will spoil a tailwheel pilot real quick.

Need to go back; lots more to explore. Camera was dead for a lot of the other ones. Managed 46 airports on the entire trip; about 26 hours of flying over 5 days. Sky Harbor east of First Air was probably one of the top ones of the trip. Also managed a few down in CA on the way back (Borges-Clarksburg, Bee Keeper's (no idea what the real name is), Red Hills). More videos to come.

-FlyingFiddler (Dustin)

No, my dad's hangar is the 2nd from the west end on the north side. You probably saw John's 140. Hopefully you didn't miss Daybreak (WA46) when you were up there. It's marked private but they allow anyone to go in there. Let me know if you're ever up in the Sacramento area and I'll show you some cool strips.

My dad's 120 at W56


Daybreak

Good show. The first few were my backyard.

tcj wrote:"Make Washington the safest state in which to fly" A little history of some of the Washington State owned airstrips
https://books.google.com/books?id=0_06S ... lt&f=false

What an awesome link!

Everyone owes themselves a little while to read that magazine from 1954!

Amazing how little has changed about our planes....

robw56 wrote:..... Hopefully you didn't miss Daybreak (WA46) when you were up there. It's marked private but they allow anyone to go in there.

Daybreak is one of my favorite strips.
The Swansons are extremely generous to welcome the public to land picnic and camp there uninvited.
I'm sure that some folks have abused that generosity (I saw an example of that once),
I just hope that no one goes too far & fucks it up for everybody else.

Fiddler wrote:Over the 4th of July weekends I ventured up to the PNW for a bit of aimless wandering around in the C120. Wow are there a lot of airports up there. And even better, a lot of open circles on the charts (public unpaved airports)...sure looking forward to getting back up there.

Those "State Airports" that OR and WA provide are all really an amazing resource. I wish CA had that sort of foresight to provide such cool infrastructure to the flying community.

https://youtu.be/9axEaG0z5bY

Great video.

I've been to several of those places, but would you be willing to maybe label them? I don't know if that's easy or not to do on a video, but I'd like to research the ones I've not been to.

Welcome to our neck of the woods.

Speeding the video up like that allows compressing a lot of landings into a shorter amount of time, but we had to be pretty quick on the draw to recognize things. I identified several strips in the middle of the video, but there were a bunch at the beginning and end that I didn't know or that only looked kinda familiar.

Wow the speed mods you've done to that C120 are incredible!

At about 3:00 is that Lake Wenatchee?

Nice job on the video! Thanks for the tour. I recognize most of the strips you ventured to, but some were a mystery to me. Good to know there's still some that I haven't been to yet. That's one of the best things about flying, exploring new strips and making new friends!

Here's the strips from the video. I think I got all of them. Hit a total of 46 airports on the whole trip; just didn't have the camera on for all of them. Will post the California strips some day.

Ashland
Salem
Lenhardt
Mulino State
Aurora
Workmans Airpark
Stark's Twin Oaks
Skyport
Cedars North
Fly For Fun
Goheen
Tieton State
Lake Wenatchee State
Skykomish State
Monroe (First Air)
Harvey
Whidbey Airpark
Blue Ribbon Airpark
Copalis State Beach
Elma
Chehalis
Woodland State
Grove
Country Squire
Sandy River
Cascade Locks State
Hood River
Madras
Sisters
Sun River
Beaver Marsh State