You missed clarksburg, just south of KSAC. All grass and lots of cool old airplanes to look at.

buzzlatka wrote:You missed clarksburg, just south of KSAC. All grass and lots of cool old airplanes to look at.

I will land there even though it's not on the public airport list. I'm getting tired of plane jane vanilla airfields!

Let me know when, I will show up with a coke. The I'll show you the delta strip.

This is clarksburg landing the wrong way

Hi all, today I flew for about 5 hours and landed at 14 California airports, including Clarksburg! See buzzlatka's photo above Here's the rundown:

MCC McClellan: GIANT slab. Made me want to puke!
L36 Rio Linda: Small field, lots of little hangars and tailwheel planes!
EDU Davis University: Antique tractor museum on field.
2Q3 Yolo County: BIG runway. Yawn.
2O3 Angwin: Airport run by 7th day adventists, Saturday is out!
STS Santa Rosa: Control tower, museum and flying warbirds.
O69 Petaluma: Great food at the Two Niner Diner. I know I'm taking a chance on disclosing this here, but my San Francisco sectional blew out of door. I saw it in middle of taxiway on departure. Probably get CA litter fine.
DVO Gnoss: Bought new San Francisco sectional chart.
0Q3 Schellville: DC3's, other warbirds, close to Infineon raceway.
0Q9 Sonoma Skypark: Turned and burned, not much of interest.
APC Napa County: Another control tower slab.
CCR Concord: See above description. LOTS of planes based here.
O88 Rio Vista: OK airport out in the flats
CN13 Clarksburg-Borges: Highlight of day, landing on grass!!! There was ramshackle hangars, 3 Funk airplanes, a J-3, cool old houses and who knows what treasures in the big hangar?!?

Rio Linda

Angwin

Former NAAS Santa Rosa, fighter, torpedo bombers WW2/Korea

Mothball Fleet Suisun Bay

Hi all, today I hit 14 CA airports including the COOLEST CA public airport, 1C9 Frazier Lake, featuring a grass runway and a water runway!



I started out from Minden to Modesto, where I filled up with $4.22 100LL, the lowest price I've seen for awhile. This airport was right in my flight path:

O27 Oakdale!


I did not have time to collect my Coke. Upon leaving MOD I did what I can only describe as an "extremely low pass" at former NALF Crows Landing. Chart shows airport closed, but runways are not X'd, hmmm. From there Gustine, an old cropduster strip, then to South County which I think was Morgan Hill or Gilroy airport, Frazier Lake, Hollister with hangars full of warbirds, glider activity and fire fighting planes. Marina, which was Fort Ord airport, then along the Monterey Bay shorline to Watsonville, Half Moon Bay, and then the super-busy airports of: Palo Alto, Hayward and Livermore. Finally Byron and then home. I'll go back to Frazier Lakes grass strip with a tent and stay awhile next time!

Anyway, I'm up to 159 CA public airports including 76 in the Husky.

Bronco at CVH Hollister Muni

[quote="onthegas"]Hi all, today I hit 14 CA airports including the COOLEST CA public airport, Frazier Lake, featuring a grass runway and a water runway!

You're right! Used to fly down there from Napa airport, just to play on their smooth and irrigated grass . . . and to talk with the friendly folks you meet there.

bumper

Been to Spaulding at Eagle lake, just north of Susanville yet

I landed a spaulding about a year ago while diverting around some valley fog. It was real windy that day and we walked to a general store and had an ice cream and plotted out the rest of the trip.

Pretty much nothing but a portapotty on the field though.

Hi All,

Been awhile since I've got to do any CA airport collecting but last week I went on a bender and managed to bag 34 new airports bringing my total to 199. I would've had a good even 200 but Rosamond was closed while repaving. Here's the new ones:

Stovepipe Wells, Furnace Creek (First time to Death Valley: incredible), Shoshone, Baker, Barstow-Daggett, Southern CA Logistics (Victorville, former George AFB), Hesperia (cheap gas, good eats), Lake Arrowhead (still not sure if that's a public field or not...), Yucca Valley, Roy WIlliams-Joshua Tree (Dirt, yeah!), 29 Palms, Chemehuevi Valley, Desert Center, Chiriaco Summit (overflew the old Rice airfield also used in WW2 Desert Warfare training center and saw tank tracks), Salton Sea, French Valley, Perris Valley (sorry about dusting out the Otter!), San Bernardino (former Norton AFB), Rialto, Cable, Whiteman, Santa Paula, Oceano, New Cuyama, Tehachapi Mountain Valley, Mojave, California City, Trona, Lone Pine, Independence, and Bishop.

I stayed over at Imperial County Airport at the Airporter Inn. There is a new La Hacienda restaurant in Imperial within a 10 minute walk from the airport. You oldtimers may remember an eat joint by the same name right on the field that was really great but torn down many years ago. The new place has the same great food: shredded beef tacos and special quesadillas and more! I gave my nephew a tailwheel endorsement while in Imperial. We flew along the border out to Ocotillo and landed at a dirt strip in El Centro. Sad to see McConnell airport, a duster strip on the south side of Brawley lost to yet another WalMart.

The third night of the trip found me at Santa Maria's Radisson. Really nice hotel with view of plane on ramp out my third floor window! Now that I have just over 100 hours in the bird I feel pretty good about getting into some backcountry strips and will get to do some on my flight this summer to/from EAA Arlington fly-in this July. Hope to see some of you there.

Cool thread, I missed this the first time by.

I Minnesota, they have a program like this, they even have passport books and rubber stamps at each airport.

Have fun with your list!!

Since this new version of PHPBB doesn't allow you to post direct HTML for security reasons, you must now use BBCode to post your Google maps. It's pretty simple though, and I updated the tutorial.

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My map. Just a start. Green is turf.

Here's my up-to-date California public airports "been there" map:

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[googlemap]http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=101818750016433346721.0004691f9f7b73cd032f0&t=h&ll=38.169114,-107.929687&spn=0.328219,1.713867&z=7[/googlemap]

Hi All, today I added 6 more airports to my tally bringing the total to...205! 49 more to go. Today's airports: Tracy New Jerusalem, Tracy Muni, San Jose Reid-Hillview (no food on field), Turlock Muni, Mariposa-Yosemite (Airport Cafe and Bar (!) 5 minute walk...more like biker bar so I felt right at home there) and Pine Mountain Lake (Big $$$ hangar homes). Then I flew over some real backcountry over the Mokelumne Wilderness area on the way to Markleeville and then back to Minden.

USFS Heliport, I'm surprised that Bumper isn't parked next to the Helo!


Damn nice Dam, Donnell Lake, Middle Fork Stanislaus River, says Flynengr...verified by Google Maps


Iceberg Wilderness near Ebbets Pass, CA Hwy 4


Kinney Lakes, near Pacific Crest Trail, north of CA Hwy 4


"The Office"


Carson Valley, really green for 3rd week of June!

Good stuff onthegas, keep it coming, and fly safe.

Rob

You know onthe gas, I thought that book laying on your office dash said "Right Guide" and I was thinking to myself "Well, I am glad he has the correct book with him!"

Nice pictures!

Onthegas,

Wish I could help you with absolute certainty regarding the name of the lake, but if I had to take my best guess it looks like Donnell Lake, it is about 3 mi SE of Spicer. Spicer is an earthfill dam, and the terrain flattens out considerably on the north side (where the campground/boat ramp is). Do you have your SPOT track linked somewhere?

Flynengr

BTW keep up the good work, I have just passed my 90th CA public airport earlier this month.

Flynengr, you have a really good eye! Yes, the photo is indeed that of Donnell Lake and I will correct the caption. Thanks!

I now have only 30 airports to go for all the CA Public Airports! On July 10 I took off from Minden and landed at Willows CA for a fuel top off and breakfast at Nancy's Airport Cafe. The chicken fried steak and eggs would have to hold me until dinner at Bel Di's on the Rogue River. I had intended landing at Crescent City and the Arcata Eureka area airports but was stymied by fog. Same thing happened the next day, fog until just north of Shelter Cove, then OK down the coast to Little River. Made 19 more CA airports with 1 new OR airport (Illinois Valley) and 3 other landings for fuel/food/stayover (Beagle Sky Ranch OR).

Day 1: Minden to Willows (food/fuel) Upper Lake Gravelly Valley, Round Valley Covelo, Ruth, Hayfork, Hyampom, Dinsmore, Hoopa, Happy Camp, Gasquet, Illinois Valley, Beagle Sky Ranch (food, stay overnight, ride motorcycles).

Day 2: Garberville (some fuel), Shelter Cove, Little River, Willits, Ukiah, Boonville, Ocean Ridge, Healdsburg, Cloverdale, Lampson and Davis (top off fuel), Minden.

Long way back to catch Crescent City, and other 5 other coast airports. Will look for good wx forecast or get instrument current!