Back to Vintage Mooney Group Home Page Friday Harbor Fly-In
August 21-23, 2009

Hosted by
Jeff Mirsepasy
with James Crossley

 

This was our first fly-in to the great northwestern corner of the continental USA, Friday Harbor on the San Juan Islands of Washington state.  What a fantastic and beautiful location for a fly-in.  If there was any doubt about expanding our region from the southwest to the western USA, that doubt was doused by this fly-in.  Thirty three planes flew in for the fly-in and most stayed for the weekend or longer.


Approach to Friday Harbor


Some of us wanted to land on these short fields
that we found on the way!  Maybe a future fly-in!

We had more first time Vintage Mooney Group pilots and passengers fly-in than we could remember.  It seemed like everyone had a wonderful time.  New and old members were mixing all day long making new friends and catching up with old friends.

         
   Hobnobbin' on the ramp all morning long on Saturday            James Crossley, his wife and friends preparing the BBQ

We would all like to extend a warm Vintage Mooney Group Thank You to Jeff Mirsepasy for proposing and hosting our fly-in and to James Crossley for providing his warm hospitality, his hangar, his family, and food!  We'll just have to go back next year, if they'll have us.  The staff at KFHR were simply wonderful.  They were actually excited to have us fly-in to Friday Harbor.  Obviously, they just don't know us.

      
        Going around the hangar introducing ourselves                       Our food host and U2 presenter, James Crossley
       There were a lot of new faces.  It's pretty exciting!                                       Thank You James!

  
                                    A huge hangar filled with lots of great people, good times, and airplane stuff
                           There was plenty of food, plenty of space, and plenty of wonderful people here.

 
                                                                                                            Our newest member, Turbo, who brought Chris along
                                                                                          with him!  You should see Turbo's new panel.  Great
                                                                                          taste.  He's trained Chris well.

     
                A little horsin' around after lunch                                                 Vintage Mooney Group Stonehenge

   
       Cigars, wine, and Wild Turkey with friends at the B&B before a roast beef dinner at the American Legion

   
On Sunday morning, several planes went island hopping to Lopez Island and Orcas Island as well as flying
around the tens of islands within a few minutes by Mooney.  The base leg to Orcas Island is shown on the left with the lighthouse on Stewart Island (which is the northwestern most corner of the continental USA.


All good things must come to an end.
Here's Kevin & Darci Smith's awesome M20K homeward bound!


Photos courtesy of members Phil Corman, Kevin & Darci Smith, Jeff Mirsepasy, and Cordell Bahn