After months of preparation, the local Tri-State Chapter finally completed our first Family Fly Day mission this past Saturday. With beautiful weather and a great crowd of nearly 350 we had a wonderful inaugural event.
On hand for the day, we had help from the Warbird’s Museum with 3 of their aircraft and a fourth Navy Trainer from one of the local Sporty hangers, and then had six private aircraft of our own to conduct family rides. Also on hand was area Bagpipe musician Michael Gregario, local magician and PFC Tri-State member Jason Hallgarth, musician Chris Hodges, along with short talks by State Representative Tom Brinkman, and County Commissioner Bob Proud. Even making the flight were a couple of vehicles from the Batavia Fire Dept.
Before the day was over, our pilots were able to take almost 150 guest up for short flights around the Clermont County and surrounding areas. Many of the participants and kids were taking their first flights ever. Participating pilots were from the local chapter, the Pilots For Christ West Virginia chapter and one new pilot was assisting over from the Bethel airport. Planes used were several Cessna 172’s, a twin engine 320 Cessna, and a single engine Arrow.
Pilots For Christ provided hot dogs and refresments to the attendees and recieved a significant amount of help with our fund raising Amaizing Grace Kettle Corn booth which was on also on-site…We look forward to hosting another of these events sometime in the future and making new connections and friends within the community. For more, please call 513-600-1930… and check out our photo gallery on the Cincypilotsforchrist Facebook Page. https://www.facebook.com/Cincypilotsforchrist