28th Sentimental Journey to Cub Haven.

Sorry I was a little late with this one. The '28th Sentimental Journey to Cub Haven' was held Wednesday, June 19th to Saturday, June 22nd, 2013.



However according to to their website there will be an all you can eat 'Pancake Breakfast Fly-In or Drive-In' held Saturday- July 27, and Sunday-Sept. 29, 2013 at William T. Piper Memorial Airport, Hangar 1; 8am - 12:30pm. There also will be "Discovery Flights by AvSport of Lock Haven..$60.00 for 30 min.".

With the news that the board of LVIA might be willing to turn over Easton's Braden Airfield operations to pilots, this may be something that could prove useful for them to look into doing as well.

The Website for EAA Chapter 70 (Braden Air Park) doesn't list any upcoming activities like those up in Lock Haven, Pennsylvania. Perhaps if someone from Braden comes across this video it will inspire them to emulate what the 'Cub Haven' folks are doing up there. This would serve two purposes. #1 Raise money. #2 Make the public much more aware.

I'm reluctant to see any more of these closed. We already lost the small airfields in Kutztown in 2009, Trexlertown in 1966 and the Bedinsky Airfield, Mahanoy City at some point between 1975-2011. Most of these were turned into malls. We have plenty of malls, but airfields can never be replaced once they are gone.

CLICK HERE for a list of Abandoned & Little-Known Airfields in the Allentown Area


DID YOU KNOW...In 1909 two planes took off from the Allentown fairgrounds and that in 1910 pilot Glenn Curtiss took off in his plane, using 19th Street as his runway, and flew over the Allentown Fair, in what was the first known heavier-than-air flight in the Lehigh Valley!