CPA Fly-In History

Tour of Hayes Aviation aircraft paint shop; discussion of paint stripping, priming, costs, and aircraft in various stages of paint/rebuild

E-bike ride to Fort Lewis College, Bar D Chuckwagon Supper Show, Million Dollar Highway drive, Old Hundred Gold Mine tour, Mayflower Mill

First CPA trip there; hot springs pools, Pioneer Museum, Badlands Traveler aircraft kit factory tour, Wind Cave National Park, Mammoth Site, World Fos

Taco bar lunch, river rafting float with Liquid Descents, happy hour with aviation-themed Bingo, dinner at Los Amigos

Lake cruise, Cedars Floating Restaurant, Bird Aviation and Invention Museum tour, shipping-container control tower tour

4th of July Freedom Festival and fireworks, Berkeley Pit mining history, World Museum of Mining, underground Butte tour incl. Evel Knievel's jail cell

Trail End State Historic Site mansion tour, Kendrick Park, Brinton Museum (Western/Indian art), 1892 ranch house tour, Eaton's Dude Ranch BBQ

Visited New Mexico Space History Museum, White Sands National Park, McGinn's Pistachio Land, Tularosa Basin Museum, and group dinner at Lescombres Win

Rimrocker Historical Society museum, Colorado Cooperative Company irrigation history, Cottonwood Syphon, historic town of Ute/schoolhouse, Apple Core

Strataca Salt Museum underground salt mine tour, Kansas Cosmosphere space artifacts, The Clayworks art gallery