Yanks Air Museum, Chino, Ca.

Flying to Chino with Peter....

  Coming from the East, I just head for El Monte Airport, Mt.San Antonio College, then fly a heading towards Chino and overfly the prison on the downwind just east of the airport. Be sure and talk to SOCAL in this area (usually 125.5, followed by 135.4 MHz) as there are departures coming out of Ontario and Bracket in this area.   The tower will nomally have you join the right downwind for 26R.

  Chino ground will direct you towards Yanks Air Museum. We parked just outside the rear fence of the Museum near the F-15. We called them on the phone and they opened up the rear gate for us so we didn't have to walk all the way around, awesome! Incredible Museum here, plan on spending more than a couple hours. There are more warbirds flying out of Chino than anywhere in the country, in addition to 2 huge warbird museums at Chino, you'll never know what you'll see flying overhead.

  Be sure to check out the new FBO Flying Tigers Aviation too. Wow, it's like a mini-museum in there dedicated to an incredible moment in aviation history. If your looking for somewhere fun, and need fuel, stop by and see this place. All kinds of unique snacks, drinks, gifts and neat things to look at. Definitely beats the typical vending machine junk we see at a lot of airports. It's nice that it’s also located on the same side of the airport as Planes of Fame and Yanks. Just look for the cool watchtower with the .50 cal pointing out! I hope we see more Flying Tigers FBO's in the future.






















Link to the Yanks Air Museum website...

Flying the Poker Run to Riverside Airport (KRAL)




Flying the Annual Poker run with the Airventurers. Pick up 4 cards at El Monte, Brackett, Cable and Rialto. Pick up the 5th card at Riverside where we reveal the winners, award prizes and have lunch.



















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Burger Run to Norms Hanger, Bracket Field, KPOC

We rented a beautiful "Glass Cockpit" model Skylane182 from Mach1 Aviation at KVNY.  Flying to Norms Hanger Coffee Shop, La Verne,  with a stop at El Monte.  Mike got to test out his new Go-Pro camera.  We'll try it again with the audio cable next time.    If approaching from the West, along the 10 freeway, the tower will have you report Kellog Hill, followed by left downwind for 26L.   The staff at Norm's is very friendly and the food is good.    You can pick up a beacon code from ground control if you want to go south from here and transition the Ontaio Class Charlie.  Be sure and stay over the lake shoreline on climbout from runway 26 and head for the Puddingstone Dam.   This way you don't overfly the homes on the hill north of the lake, or the RV park east of the lake.     We had trouble getting this plane started after lunch.  We got a jump start from an FBO at KPOC and finally got it started, for an uneventful return flight home.






















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