Tue, Jul 04, 2006
Over 100 Planes Relocating To Nearby Fields
Aero-News has learned that after 60
years of operation, the historic Evergreen Airport (59S) in
Vancouver, WA has held it's final fly-in event... a bittersweet
farewell party that saw over 250 guests and over 50 airplanes in
attendance. Founded in 1946 -- and home to the Northwest Antique
Airplane Club (NWAAC) and the Evergreen Fly-In since 1964 -- 59S
will be closing forever in mid-July.
This past Saturday, July 1 saw Evergreen "Friends and Family"
get together for the last NWAAC meeting there, followed by a
barbecue and pot luck, slide and movie shows of past events, and
sharing of stories of days gone by. From this point forward, the
meetings will be held at the satellite clubhouse at Scappoose
Industrial Airpark (SPB).
Meanwhile, the more than 100 airplanes that called Evergreen
home -- some for well over 40 years -- have had to find new places
to roost at nearby airports in Washington and Oregon.
The annual Evergreen Fly-In that began in 1964 moved to
McMinnville (MMV) in 2004, as the threat of impending closure made
long term planning too uncertain. The NWAAC Fly-In is held the
third weekend of August.
Since 1946, Evergreen has been a place where a flyer could stop
for small town hospitality, kids could earn flight time washing
planes, students could learn to fly in taildraggers or contemporary
planes.
Until the flight school closed recently, Wally's original
training fleet included several 1946 T-Crafts and a Cub -- and
folks were welcome to wander around, poke a nose into an open
hangar and say hello.
A multi-use business park -- sporting with airport design cues
-- will replace one of the last, great, old airports in the
Vancouver-Portland area. Somehow, that just don't seem right...
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