Warbird Information Exchange

Thought I would let all of you in on a secret that we have not advertised for a particular reason....no parking available for transients. June 22-28, 2009 will be the 50th Reunion of the National Waco Club at Wynkoop Airport (6G4) in Mt. Vernon, Ohio. This will be the largest gathering ever of Waco Aircraft. As of today we officially have 79 Wacos pre-registered. Many rare and one-of-a-kind Wacos will be attending. There are various activities planned each day. It is free and open to the public. The catch is that the airport is NOTAM closed to all NON-WACO Airplanes the entire week as we simply have nowhere to park transients, even if they only want to stay for a few hours. We do not want to turn away a Waco because a Piper Cherokee has taken a parking space.

The good news is that all transients can land at Knox County Airport which is 2 miles south of Wynkoop Airport. We will have shuttle service available every day from 0800-2000 on the half hour. This should give anyone the opportunity to see these great old airplanes.

Some of the highlights are that we are expecting at least one of every model of Cabin still flying today, the rare Waco CRG and S3HD will attend, we currently have 11 RNF/INF/KNF models attending (never more than 4 together in 50 years). An example of nearly all the open models will also be in attendance. Lots of flying every day, various dinners each night on the airport (limited seating), several flyouts to other locations (Troy, Ohio to the Waco Museum being one), and a general good time for all. We welcome anyone from WIX to attend and if you want to volunteer for anything from fueling to parking we could use the help.

Never again will we see such a gathering of Wacos so if you are a buff then here is your invitation.

Andy,

Any chance you can post a schedule or planned schedule? Wife looking for hotel rooms for night of 27th. So any idea what we may see on the 27th or 28th? When do most depart for home? Thanks

Ps....you bringing more than one plane?

dave

Schedule of events:

Cookout Tuesday night sponsored by the Club

Wednesday fly-out to Mt. Victory, Ohio for breakfast. Pork Chop dinner Wed. night at airport.

Thursday fly-out to Troy, Ohio to the Waco Museum and lunch. Thursday night 30's style dinner dance with live 17-piece band and catered steak dinner.

Friday rain date for fly-out to Troy, Waco Forums during the day and Corn Roast dinner at the airport.

Saturday pancake breakfast by the local airport group and the Banquest Saturday night

Flying every day without a given schedule. Best days will be Thu- Sat. Forget Sunday as everyone is gone by 10am. I am bringing 3 of our 4 Wacos to the event...Waco RNF, Waco YKC-S and our Waco 10 on a trailer.

The Wed, Thu and Sat night dinner tickets must be ordered by this Wednesday.

I'll be driving down from Detroit on Friday morning. I'm really looking forward to seeing all of those great aircraft.

What an outstanding gathering. Perfect weather basically the entire week. We had a total of 52 Waco airplanes attend, making this the largest gathering of Wacos ever, anywhere. We had 20 Cabin models and 32 opens. We had 7 RNF/INF/KNF models attend and 5 Straightwing models, both of those being records as well. The largest model represented was the UPF-7 with 12.

Everyone arrived home safely and we had no issues during the entire week. The two years of planning really paid off. I'll post photos and descriptions within the week.

Great news, Andy! Happy to hear it was well attended and a safe event. Cant hardly wait to see some pictures!

Dan, here is one to hold you over till I can get through the 800+ pictures I took at the event. I am sure Andy will put up some in short order. I am leaving for a trip in 20 minutes, so here is a teaser!

dave