http://www.kernvalleyairport.com

Welcome to the KERN VALLEY AIRPORT BACKCOUNTRY FLY-IN located in the beautiful southern Sierra Nevada mountains of Southern California. Bring your planes and your families as we will have backcountry strip flying for the pilots, river and camping activities for the non-pilots, and fun for the whole family. Plenty of airplane camping is available at our airport campground with bonfire pits and basic shower/toilets. Breakfast and lunch is available at the airport café, and we’ll arrange for group dinner plans including a BBQ and a run to the famous Kern River Brewing Company.

WHAT TO DO:
• Airplane camping with bonfire pit and basic shower/toilets at large airport grass campground
• Tri-Tip BBQ cookout
• Excellent river rafting (with convenient pickup and drop off directly at the fly-in campsite), mountain biking, hiking, 4x4'ing, fly fishing, rock climbing, lake stand up paddleboarding, whitewater and lake kayaking, hot springs in the local area with guides available
• Rafting/kayaking/rock climbing/lake stand up paddleboarding: Contact Sierra South Mountain Sports for the ‘Kern Valley Airport Fly-In special rate’ (800-457-2082)
• Possibly live music
• Airport café open for breakfast and lunch from 7am-3pm. Excellent omelets and burgers!
• STOL performance evaluation
• Introduction seminar to our favorite southern sierra backcountry strips; high country and low country, some landable, some not.
• Special discounts on hotel lodge accommodations in Kernville

RAFFLE PRIZE GIVEAWAY!
We're gathering some great sponsors for our raffle prize giveaway to raise money to improve our airport campground for you!! You guys are gonna love what we have to offer with swag, gift certificates, and gear so far from:
The RAF (Recreational Aviation Foundation): swag and gear!
The Kern Valley Airport Cafe: gift certificate
Kernville's Cracked Egg Cafe: gift certificate
Kernville's Sierra South Paddle Sports: two free lickety blaster riverraft runs!
Alaskan Bushwheels: 1) one 50% gift certificate for any bushwheel they sell and 2) A SET OF 31" ALASKAN BUSHWEELS!
Kernville's That's Italian restaurant: a $25 gift certificate!
And soon hopefully some other local Kernville lodges, restaurants as well as prize sponsorship from Aircraft Spruce! Stay tuned for more to come!
Kernville's Ewing's Restaurant: gift certificate
Kernville Inn: one night stay gift certificate

Great idea, thanks for posting this. I will try to be there in either the 172 or the Firestar. Which strips are people going to fly out to? How many of them are do-able in an old 145HP Cessna if for some reason the Firestar is not done yet?

Mrs. P, Carly and I will likely be in attendance in the training-wheel Maule! Don't count out MIT for fuel--cheaper than L45 and home to a bunch of us!


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Sounds fun, we'll plan on being there unless I'm gone for work.

Sounds good to me too. Haven't been in that area in a loooong time.
Gary

In my backyard...kinda, I'm in.

BradleyP wrote:Mrs. P, Carly and I will likely be in attendance in the training-wheel Maule! Don't count out MIT for fuel--cheaper than L45 and home to a bunch of us!

Make sure that you get The Professor (Pete) to bring the Cracker Jack in to this event. By that time he should have all his test flights done on the engine.

still a long way off but sounds good....

EZFlap wrote:

BradleyP wrote:Mrs. P, Carly and I will likely be in attendance in the training-wheel Maule! Don't count out MIT for fuel--cheaper than L45 and home to a bunch of us!

Make sure that you get The Professor (Pete) to bring the Cracker Jack in to this event. By that time he should have all his test flights done on the engine.

Oh no, whatever involves the professor should be kept at the south end of the field, and preferably somewhat hidden from public view.

I am unfamiliar with the current project...please enlighten me!


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Well, we got a list of strips in mind, but for now, they are kinda on the downlow until 1) we completely finish building the newest one, 2) a few more permissions are obtained for all you guys to come in to some of the other ones, and 3) we get a full list with specs put together so everyone has the information they need to make good flying-capability decisions before they go in... More to come soon!

Keep checking the http://www.kernvalleyairport.com/newsevents.html site for more news and the latest schedule.

BradleyP wrote:
Oh no, whatever involves the professor should be kept at the south end of the field, and preferably somewhat hidden from public view.

I am unfamiliar with the current project...please enlighten me!

We must be talking about a different guy. Pete Plumb is definitely one of the most talented and capable people in aviation.

Pete is the #1 aircraft wood structures expert west of the Mississippi, if not the entire country. His aircraft wood work is nothing short of a work of art. Pete has taken it upon himself to design and manufacture a "certified aircraft quality" engine to meet the demand for a safe, reliable 4 stroke aircraft engine in the 60HP range. He has created a balance between a proven safe "gold standard" design, the best advances in modern CAD/CAM manufacturing, better materials, and better quality control than the "gold standard" engine upon which this is built.

He will bring this engine to market at a very attractive price, and he will offer the engine as both a factory build AND a "scrounger's special" where a homebuilder can save thousands by using many parts from a plentiful used engine.

Now, he is about to start testing the engine, and he will test it on an aircraft that he conceptualized, designed and engineered himself from scratch.

Either you're talking about a different guy, or (in order to look down your nose at Pete even a tiny amount) your name is Ed Heinemann, Kelly Johnson, Gerhard Waibel, or Geoffrey DeHavilland.

Sorry, my sarcasm font was turned off.... Pete is a legend and I have the utmost respect for him and what he does for the industry. He owned the volksplane my dad's class built in high school and loaned his 150 to a good friend of mine to start flight training.

What wasn't sarcasm is not being aware of his current project!


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I'll forgive your sarcasm font issue if you forgive my smart ass issue

We're all good! Seriously though... I run into Pete from time to time but never actually knew the depth of the projects he's working on! I will be sure to stop in next time I see the open hangar door!


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Updated the event details at http://www.kernvalleyairport.com.

We now have a brand new pair of 31" Alaskan Bushwheels to giveaway and tons of other raffle prizes!!

Unfortunately I won't be here for this event, sounds like a good time and it's basically in my backyard. Have fun out there!

I'm planning to bring my son down for this and the Planes of Fame airshow. Hopefully the weather improves up here!

I was there with a buddy for the work party last Saturday. It's a beautiful place with a real nice camping area with lots of amenities (no, these are not mosquitoes although one did bite me). The Kern river (not too close but not too far) is high so be careful... Take a trip into town for some local color; you might meet a genuine desert rat of the human kind.

The turnoff to camping is near the approach of 17. Depending on your plane, you might be able to land on the numbers and turn right into camping. Otherwise, first taxiway off to left and left again to go back toward camping.

I will not be there this year but maybe next.... Enjoy

Blue skies,

Tom

Looks like the weather is going to move out of the area by this weekend so I'm planning on heading down with my son. Should be fun ... it's been a very long winter!!!

I will be driving in Friday afternoon to attend. Would love the opportunity to tag along in the right seat with someone on Saturday or Sunday and visit a few backcountry strips. If anyone is open to my tagging along please post here or PM me. More than willing to pay my share of the gas and or give the person one of my Gopro Camera mounts.

I will have a few of my mounts at the flyin for sale as well. I may also have a mount or two people can borrow for the day but that would require a user provided camera as my loaner gopros are already spoken for. There will also be a few in the raffle as well.

Best regards,

Marc Webster
Cloudbase Engineering LLC
www.cloudbaseengineering.com