Cancelled Air Shows for 2009

[EDowning]

Just been informed that the Cape Girardeau Show and the Goshen Shows are both cancelled. Real bummer, both great shows that I had been planning to fly in.

Last edited by EDowning on Tue Feb 03, 2009 11:28 am, edited 1 time in total.

[tom d. friedman]

the economy strikes again..........

[hang the expense]

Tip of the iceberg I am affraid.Everybody hang tough.

[Liza]

Additional shows which have cancelled...

Lake in the Hills, IL - airport construction
Midsouth Airshow, TN
Kaneohe Bay MCAS, HI
Rome, GA - postponed to 2010
Millville, NJ (still trying to do something for '09, but not likely)
Martinsburg, WV
Dyess AFB
Shaw AFB
Mankato, MN
Owensboro, KY - postponed to 2010
Grissom ARB
McConnell AFB - because they didn't get the Thunderbirds

[bilwor]

Davis-Monthan AFB postpone for another year so as not to conflict with Luke AFB. They will each be in alternate years (Odd numbered years, Luke; even numbered, D-M )

[mlenoch]

The Heritage Flight Conference will go on. DM AFB - 5 to 7 Mar 09.
VL

[kalamazookid]

Big shame about Goshen. Great show, and probably the only place in the world where you can see Amish kids running around with USAF stickers on their clothes!

[Tim Savage]

Just been informed that the Cape Girardeau Show and the Goshen Shows are both cancelled. Real bummer, both great shows that I had been planning to fly in.

That is too bad about GSH. It has become a family tradition to go up there with our airplane(s) every year. Unfortunately, GSH is the heart of the recreational vehicle business, and it obviously isn't doing too well. The unemployment rate in that county is over 15% right now. I lived there will growing up and it is usually feast or famine. The industry will bounce back and my guess is Freedomfest will as well. Randy and the gang there at GSH did a great job of bringining in sponsorship from all the industry and a lot of those now closed plants would rent chalets for their company picnics. Better for the airshow to keep their powder try and come back with another great event in the future.

I can't help but think if the media would stop talking about how bad the economy is we would all be better off.

I am not sure this is a good barometer, but 60 miles south of GSH, where I live, you can't get a seat in a restaraunt without waiting an extended period of time on the weekend. I can't help but think if that things were really so bad nationwide that people would be willing to plunk down $15 bucks a head for food. Then again, I am not an economist by any means....

[oscardeuce]

I understand there will be no show in Akron Ohio this year either.

[richkolasa]

Big shame about Goshen. Great show, and probably the only place in the world where you can see Amish kids running around with USAF stickers on their clothes!

Cleveland has that too. I guess they're mostly Mennonites, not sure.

Rich

[Liza]

More cancellations:

Runway Day at Piedmont Triad Int'l Airport
NASA Air & Space Show - Moffett Field
Ramona
Lancaster, Ohio
Wings Over Pittsburgh

Non-US:

Bierset Heli Days
Ursel Wings and Wheels will be wheels only
San Javier (Murcia) AIRE 09
Old Station Fly-in and Air Show (Australia)
Augsburg Airshow
Internationale Belpmoostage
Kecskemet International Air Show (Hungary)

[k5083]

Big shame about Goshen. Great show, and probably the only place in the world where you can see Amish kids running around with USAF stickers on their clothes!

Cleveland has that too. I guess they're mostly Mennonites, not sure.

Rich

Plenty of Amish attend Reading. I think there is even a horse-drawn carriage parking area.

August