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During the last month I've delivered and picked up several airplanes. Listed below are some of my favorite stops (chime in with you favorites).
Centralia Municipal, Illinois (ENL)
A perfect T-craft airport, nice people, old timer named Les runs the place--he's full of aviation history.
Tuscaloosa Municipal, Alabama (TCL)
Nice airport, good service, friendly people in the tower,very nice J-3 shooting touch and go's when I landed.
Jeffco, Denver Colorado (BJC)
Another controlled airport with a friendly tower. Everything from a Cub to a Spitfire to a Gulfstream on the ramp.
Marysville Union County Airport, Ohio (MRT)
Very nice airport with friendly efficient service.
Trenton, New Jersey Mercer (TTN)
The Collings Foundation B-17 and B-24 were there when I landed. The owner of the T-34 that I was delivering took me to a great restaurant overlooking the runways.
Pikeville, Kentucky Pike County-Hatcher Field (PXT)
Beautiful scenery, nice airport, good service. The FBO has a loaner car to go to town.
Norfolk International, Virginia (ORF)
Class C Airspace so most of us probably won't take our Taylorcrafts there. I was picking up a Bonanza and runway 5 was active, which took me out over the Atlantic into a picture perfect early morning sunrise.
Lewisburg, West Virginia Greenbrier Valley Airport (LWB)
Great place to land with a broken engine. Roanoke Approach gave me priority and vectored me to the ILS into Greenbrier without me having to use the "E" word after the head on number 2 cylinder split open on the Bonanza that I was taking back to Tulsa for an engine overhaul The airplane owner waited about 5 hours too long for a major! The guys at Rader Aviation helped me change the cylinder after my boss overnighted one to us via UPS and I was on my way back to Tulsa the next afternoon. I'm happy that this didn't occur on the takeoff from Norfolk!
Garry Crookham
N5112M
Tulsa
Centralia Municipal, Illinois (ENL)
A perfect T-craft airport, nice people, old timer named Les runs the place--he's full of aviation history.
Tuscaloosa Municipal, Alabama (TCL)
Nice airport, good service, friendly people in the tower,very nice J-3 shooting touch and go's when I landed.
Jeffco, Denver Colorado (BJC)
Another controlled airport with a friendly tower. Everything from a Cub to a Spitfire to a Gulfstream on the ramp.
Marysville Union County Airport, Ohio (MRT)
Very nice airport with friendly efficient service.
Trenton, New Jersey Mercer (TTN)
The Collings Foundation B-17 and B-24 were there when I landed. The owner of the T-34 that I was delivering took me to a great restaurant overlooking the runways.
Pikeville, Kentucky Pike County-Hatcher Field (PXT)
Beautiful scenery, nice airport, good service. The FBO has a loaner car to go to town.
Norfolk International, Virginia (ORF)
Class C Airspace so most of us probably won't take our Taylorcrafts there. I was picking up a Bonanza and runway 5 was active, which took me out over the Atlantic into a picture perfect early morning sunrise.
Lewisburg, West Virginia Greenbrier Valley Airport (LWB)
Great place to land with a broken engine. Roanoke Approach gave me priority and vectored me to the ILS into Greenbrier without me having to use the "E" word after the head on number 2 cylinder split open on the Bonanza that I was taking back to Tulsa for an engine overhaul The airplane owner waited about 5 hours too long for a major! The guys at Rader Aviation helped me change the cylinder after my boss overnighted one to us via UPS and I was on my way back to Tulsa the next afternoon. I'm happy that this didn't occur on the takeoff from Norfolk!
Garry Crookham
N5112M
Tulsa
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