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Comanche Fly-in March 31-April 2, 2006
Maintenance Seminar
Famous Cosmosphere and Space Museum
Amish and Antique Shopping
Indoor Water Park
All in Hutchinson, Kansas www.visithutch.com
We've arranged an extra hour in this weekend so you can have time for all the fun as Daylight Savings time begins. This will be my fourth visit to Hutchinson. I live near Fort Worth and I keep coming back for more. This is a joint fly-in and all ICS members are welcome.
• Friday, March 31
3:00-5:00 PM registration at Airport Conference Room. Receive your Chamber of Commerce goodie bags and Wells Aircraft hot fresh cookies. Sign-up for “Show and Tell” slots. There will be a nominal registration fee used to cover the cost of the transportation. Best estimate is $15-20 per person. Saturday Box Lunch during Maintenance Seminar will be an additional charge.
5:00-6:00 PM 10 minute slots for each attendee to stand in front of their plane and do a little “Show and Tell” as a way for everyone to get acquainted. More time can be added if needed.
6:00 PM Dinner at the excellent Airport Steakhouse. Business is so good that the restaurant has been expanded since I was last there. The food is great and the view of the ramp is wonderful. How cool will it be to have a lovely meal in sight of your plane!
• Saturday, April 1 Maintenance Seminar
9:00 – 10:00 AM Late Registration at the Maintenance Seminar location
10:00 AM - Maintenance Seminar Start. Bob Weber speaking. I heard Bob speak at the Manassas convention and want to hear him again. There’s always something to learn.
Robert Victor from Topeka, KS has volunteered his 1965 PA-30 to be on jacks. A bonus will be that we can see his newly finished panel overlay.
11:30 AM – Box Lunch
Noon – 1:30 Bob Weber available for questions.
As an aside, it was fascinating to have my plane in his shop. The stabilator AD was signed off but guess what? It was done for one of four attachment points and two more were loose. That wasn’t why the plane was in the shop but they checked it anyway and I’m so glad they did.
• Saturday, April 1 Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Museum
Open 9 AM to 9 PM
1:30 – 2:00 PM Transportation from the Maintenance Seminar to the Museum
2:00 – 5:00 Maintenance Seminar attendees may enjoy the museum at their leisure
Notes: See www.cosmo.org for a discount coupon for each of the three venues of the Museum with the Apollo 13 Command Module, SR-71 and so much more, the IMAX theater with “Mystery of the Nile” and “Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon” showing on alternating hours beginning at 1 PM, the Justice Planetarium Theater and Dr Goddard’s Lab. I keep coming back because there is so much to see. This is a Smithsonsian-quality museum with a rare and wonderful ‘let me tell you the story’ approach to displaying artifacts. It is fascinating to all age levels. There is a full service café and extensive gift shop.
• Saturday, April 1 Other Activities – one van will be available to shuttle to these locations - some are walking distance
20,000 sq ft indoor space-themed water park adjoining the hotel
150 downtown antique shops near the historic Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe railroad
Nearby Amish community stores located about 20 minutes southeast of town have baked goods and handcrafted products.
Contemporary Shopping mall across from the hotel.
• Saturday, April 1 Dinner at the Blue Duck Bistro www.blueduckbistro.com
5:30 PM Meet in the Lobby of the hotel for transportation to dinner
6:00 PM Dinner at the Blue Duck Bistro where the menu has a wide variety of entrees
• Sunday, April 2 Transportation to the airport between 8:00 AM – 9:00 AM
• There is commercial air service to Wichita, Kansas if your own plane is not available. It is about a one-hour drive from Wichita to Hutchinson.
• We’ll be staying at the recently renovated Grand Prairie Hotel and Convention Center with their Indoor Water Park www.grandprairiehotel.com. Our rate is $79 plus tax and that includes 4 passes to the water park. Call (866) KS-SPLASH for reservations code word is ‘Comanche”. Note that they have the largest Houlihan’s on site.
Put this on your calendars now and plan to enjoy the education and fun that always comes with a gathering of ICS members. Contact Pat Keefer at pkeefer@charter.net to be added to the notification list.
Wishing you Blue Skies and Tailwinds,
Pat
Patricia Jayne (Pat) Keefer
ICS Member 08899
President, U.S. Air Race, Inc.
President, RTW (Round the World), A Motivational Company
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