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Sat Oct 13, 2012 8:40 am

McKinnon Airpark - Sandy, OR - OG29

McKinnon Airpark - Sandy, OR - OG29 has been purchased and will no longer be an airport 2012 flyin drivein was the last one. It will become a herb farm. The runway will be dug up and plowed.
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Sat Oct 13, 2012 8:53 am

Re: McKinnon Airpark - Sandy, OR - OG29

suck!!!
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Sat Oct 13, 2012 9:36 am

McKinnon Airpark - Sandy, OR - OG29

That's the shits. Glad I got to go once.
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Sat Oct 13, 2012 7:11 pm

Re: McKinnon Airpark - Sandy, OR - OG29

Is that the gold miners place?
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Sun Oct 14, 2012 7:06 am

Re: McKinnon Airpark - Sandy, OR - OG29

The Gold Miner strip is a different one, Sandy River,OR,-- O3S.

Rob, you are going to need a snorkle to get home! Been raining hard, maybe a break in the wet stuff,
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Sun Oct 14, 2012 1:54 pm

Re: McKinnon Airpark - Sandy, OR - OG29

That is sad!

In the same vein, some say that China is building 5 airports for their general aviation for every 1 closed in the US.
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Sun Oct 14, 2012 2:03 pm

Re: McKinnon Airpark - Sandy, OR - OG29

That's sad to hear! I never made it out there. Regretfully every year I never made time to go to the fly-in.
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Sun Oct 14, 2012 2:11 pm

Re: McKinnon Airpark - Sandy, OR - OG29

Neat place, but way to many trees there. #-o
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Sun Oct 14, 2012 3:51 pm

Re: McKinnon Airpark - Sandy, OR - OG29

Terry wrote:Neat place, but way to many trees there. #-o


:lol: :lol: 8)
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Mon Oct 22, 2012 10:22 pm

Re: McKinnon Airpark - Sandy, OR - OG29

Terry wrote:Neat place, but way to many trees there. #-o

They are kind of hard to taxi around... :)
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Tue Oct 23, 2012 2:48 am

Re: McKinnon Airpark - Sandy, OR - OG29

S39Pilot wrote:That is sad!

In the same vein, some say that China is building 5 airports for their general aviation for every 1 closed in the US.


Is there an "Ohio Bush Planes do China" in our future?
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Mon Nov 19, 2012 8:52 pm

Re: McKinnon Airpark - Sandy, OR - OG29

Seems a shame. I was also quite disappointed to find out a couple of years ago that the Evergreen Museum in not-so-far-away McMinnville has never done anything to document or preserve the legacy of McKinnon Enterprises Inc. or otherwise recognize its contributions to aviation in Oregon. McKinnon Airpark would have made a neat little fly-in museum for that.
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Tue Nov 20, 2012 10:11 am

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I didn't realize untl just now that McKinnon Airpark & the McKinnon conversions had anything to do with each other. Maybe some memoribilia could be gathered up & donated to a museum- the one at Hood River might be more appropriate than the one at McMinnville.
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Tue Nov 20, 2012 2:12 pm

Re: McKinnon Airpark - Sandy, OR - OG29

I was told the hangar that they did the conversion work in is there and the guy who owned the airport( now passed away) had a lot of photos on the walls documenting the Widgeon and Goose conversion work.
Rudderbash may know more about this.
I had the okay to go in there, but never did. My bad.

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Tue Nov 20, 2012 2:18 pm

Re: McKinnon Airpark - Sandy, OR - OG29

Very unfortunate. I enjoyed that place on more than one occasion.
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Tue Nov 20, 2012 2:56 pm

Re: McKinnon Airpark - Sandy, OR - OG29

Bummer. The wife and I went there in 08. It was fun and a great airstrip.

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Mon Feb 15, 2021 1:29 pm

Re: McKinnon Airpark - Sandy, OR - OG29

McKinnon is for sale again. Here is the barnstormers post: https://www.barnstormers.com/ad_detail.php?id=1636136
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Tue Feb 16, 2021 9:40 am

Re: McKinnon Airpark - Sandy, OR - OG29

Awesome property!
Sure a shame that that great hangar is being used for a "food processing business" instead of aviation.
Maybe whoever buys it will remedy that.
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