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The fuel prices have forced us to raise our prices mid-season. Completing a 60 minute flight costs us $100 more than it did back in November. Expect our prices to fluctuate with fuel prices from now on since we simply cannot absorb such large swings in retail prices. Our policy of honoring pre-purchased flights for one year without penalty is still in effect. We'll be flying 7 days a week during the month of April. We have lots of activity on our ramp this time of year with visiting airplanes and most of the aircraft in the hangar flying almost every day. Come join in the fun! The Bell 47 is no longer available for flights at our facility. We hate to see it go, but we need to expand our facilities for our Museum and T-6 operations. Warbird Adventures has partnered with Southwest Airlines in the FineScale Magazine Warbird Adventure. You could win a one-hour flight in one of our T-6's and a pair of roundtrip tickets from Southwest Airlines. There are also model kits from Italari and Academy. FineScale Modeler® magazine is the essential tool for modelers of all skill levels. Learn how to create models of aircraft, armor, ships, cars and more. Enter today by clicking here. The city of Kissimmee has completed a very nice taxiway in front of our facility which will make airport access much better for our operations. It appears to have been finished ahead of schedule and it looks great. We'll post a picture once the lines have been painted We are terminating MASH helicopter operations as of this month. We've had a great run but the Bell 47 is now finally for sale. It will be available after November 13 for delivery to the new owner. It will be available for flights until it is sold, but the this is your last chance to fly this classic. For more information about the machine for interested parties, please contact Thom at thom@warbirdadventures.com It's been 3 years since our last price increase on our T-6 flights. The 15 minute flight has gone up by $5.-, the 30 minute $20.- and the 60 minute flight by $40.- on. Not bad considering the rise in gas and operating costs. We've have always tried to maintain the lowest prices possible for our customers and we'll continue that tradition. The option prices remain un-changed.. We have just opened the doors to our new Air Museum. See www.kissimmeeairmuseum.com for details on our exhibit. The admission is $5.- for adults and children under 12 are free. We have various aircraft, engines, memorabilia and projects on display. The exhibit is open Tuesday - Saturday 09:00 - 17:00. The Kissimmee Air museum is the home of the world's only flying AEROCAR and of course the White 1 Focke-Wulf project. The FW190A-3, Aka 'Black 3' has had the wings mated to the fuselage and the motor hung. This is the static display that is being assembled for the Norwegian Air Force Museum. It will be available to view at our facility for some time however. There's still a lot of work to be done. The flying specimen 'White 1' is also being built in our hangar. See http://www.white1foundation.org/ for more details on this fascinating project. The last picture is another one of our tenants. This flying PT-22 belongs to one of our pilots Sean Sweeney.
The summer tour continues in Geneseo NY. We'll be here until August 5. Direct line (866) 992-7247. Book your flight soon since we're running out of time and slots quickly!!! We've spent out time in CT at the Groton-New London Airport hosted by Lanmar Aviation. There's been a great turn-out and the weather has cooperated. Special Thanks to John Burton for making it all possible, he's the one with the small lobster...
The summer tour starts in CT this coming Friday. We'll be flying the two airplanes up north on June 6th. The month of June will be spent in New London, CT and the month on July will be in Geneseo, NY as usual. We will of course be available here in Kissimmee every day with the remaining T-6 and the Bell 47. The two T-6's on tour will return the first week of August. 9 years ago today we started operations in Kissimmee. It was just appropriate (and a coincidence) that we also just opened up our new helipad on west Hwy 192. You can see Mack and Graham with our very first customer (who also happened to be a return customer from a T-6 flight several years ago). Later the same evening we celebrated by riding our hydro-swing door to the hangar roof to enjoy the view of the airport and wave to the tower... The little one's name is Joshua and he's securely held in Graham-pa's lap.
The city of Kissimmee School of Government borrowed a corner of our hangar today for the class of 2007. They had an 'airline' theme. This is what the promotional video (where Graham is the super diva) was made for.
We had a Supermarine T-9 stop by overnight. Sun-n-Fun is in full swing and Bill Greenwood from Aspen, Colorado paid us a visit with his fantastic machine. In the background of the last picture you can see that the White 1 Foundation has started moving in with their FW 190 projects. More on this later. A picture of the finished hangar.
The Sebring raceway had it's 12-hour endurance race today. We were part of the opening ceremonies with a 3-ship fly-by. Pictures were taken on the way there. Thanks go out to Bob Tulius for the referral.
It's official, the porta-potty left today so we're moved in!.
The newly painted floor is finished. Very expensive but worth it in the long run. As you can see there is an airplane in the hangar already...
One of our pilot's have decided to get hitched, Ron Tinkham. We decided to get him a pedal plane for the ring bearer to pull the flower girl in. Of course we had to model it in front of the real thing. Good luck Ron & Andrea!
The Marine painted T-6 got a face lift today.
Graham and the Airport director filmed a promo video for the airport today... I think they're going to Hollywood!.
The hydro-seeding begun today. We should have green grass in a few days
We have had our parking lot paved and the transformer upgraded to the specified 37.5KW.
The sidewalks were completed today.
The portion of the ramp where the future pull-through structure will stand has been poured.
I've had a technical problem with my camera (as in not being exactly sure of it's whereabouts...) which is why we don't have any updates from the beginning of November. I have however borrowed a camera for the last few days. The offices have been painted, the tile floor installed, the hung ceiling grid installed with AC duct outlets and lights. The backflow preventer for the sprinkler system has been installed and flushed. The telephone lines and cable has been installed and all the electrical outlets and switches installed. Yesterday we poured the concrete slab for the future pull through and tomorrow morning we'll have the ramps in place. The kitchen cabinets are installed and the bathroom are virtually finished. The last picture was from this evening when we masked off the side of the hangar in anticipation of the ramp pour. The concrete splatter is very hard to remove from the sheet metal once it cures.
The dates and locations for our summer tour have been set: CLICK HERE for details This trench drain is being installed at the south end of our access ramp to taxiway Charley.
Drywall is looking better and better every day. Here we caught Robbie sleeping on the job again, and yes, the roller is moving.
You might be a Redneck... If you enclose your roller with plastic wrap and duct tape to protect yourself from the freezing Florida weather. It was all the way down to 50 degrees today. In other words, very, very cold...
The water oil separator has been set. This unit along with the sprinkler system allows us to legally perform heavy maintenance in our hangar (unlike most hangars at Kissimmee airport). without them it could only be used for aircraft storage. We have welded together railings around the stair cases and a loading gate for the upstairs open storage. This allows forklift access.
Drainage is finally being installed. The first layer of the firewall has been hung and the insulation for aforementioned wall arrived today. Two old friends stopped by to check on our progress (Gari Murphy and John Schaffer). They helped out extensively to repair our hurricane damage last year and are now restoring a Focke-Wulf 190 across the street.
Graham and I made a roof inspection today. It should hold up well. The drywall has arrived and the installation begun.
Plumbing rough-in is completed, door frames are being installed and the HVAC ducts are all in.
The door seems to work fine with the sheet metal installed. The drainage pipe finally arrived 8 weeks behind schedule. I guess we're not the only ones doing construction... The sprinkler assembly is complete. Now all we need is the exterior hookup. Leon's making good progress on the framing and the last picture is a view from our second story of our temporary shelters and office trailer . The shelters will be for sale soon.
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The last piece of sheet metal has been installed and the hangar is now almost a fully enclosed box. We're still missing the glass store-front door and the windows on the top floor in order to be completely secure. We have made temporary window inserts upstairs to protect the wood from any wind driven rain... Which we of course get on average once a day.
The floor is finished and the framing upstairs has begun. The header above the hangar door has been sheeted and the rubber flap that protects the top of the door installed.
We now have glass on the bottom floor (except for the front door). The only sheeting left to do is the Eastern wall and hangar door.
The window frames for the lower floor were installed this morning and Leon & Sandy started the upstairs flooring.
All the floor joists are in place and we stacked the flooring upstairs today. We'll begin the flooring installation tomorrow.
The northern and western walls are complete and work has begun on the south wall. The sprinkler installation started today and most of the rough-in will be completed today.
We were working on the staircases this morning and finished the western installation. Most of the longer joists have been placed.
The floor joists for the second floor arrived over the weekend and we started installing them this morning. The second picture is over the tool room where the joists are spaced only a foot apart in order to handle pretty much any load we put on the storage area above. The black-iron pipe for the sprinkler system arrive today. They'll start installation in a couple of days. The sprinkler installation is required if you want to be able to perform maintenance in your hangar, which of course we do a lot of. It's very expensive, but even though nothing we do is a real fire hazard, those are the rules. We also have to install a 2-hour firewall between the office and the hangar which consists of two 5/8 sheets of drywall. The office pad is raised 3 1/2 inches over the hangar floor in case of fuel spills and every little orifice is sealed. The doors to the hangars will be fire proof steel doors with automatic closers and the air conditioning will have baffles. It's much more involved than Hangars built even just a few years ago.
The framing of the office block is progressing quickly. The last reinforcement brackets on the hydraulic door were welded in place today and we opened it for the first time. Some of the guys decided to take a test-ride...
The Western rollup door was installed yesterday and it works beautifully. The sheeting of the western wall has begun and the framing is making good progress. We also tested the hydraulics for the hangar door. We won't be opening it until all the sheeting is in place for more rigidity. We also have a couple more brackets to weld on its support structure before the big test. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
