Plane spotting road trip : Day 7 July 2nd 2024 Aberdeen ID => Missoula MT - 5 airfields
A beautiful warm and cloudless day, we left our friends in Aberdeen Idaho and headed north along SR39 and soon after about 30 miles passed through the small town of Rockford. I am not sure I would call it a town and I am not sure the farm strip at the north of it is worthy of the title municipal airport bestowed upon it, but there we are - its code is K2U4 and is right on the side of the road. There were three aircraft present, a straight tail Cessna 150, a PA28 stripped of paint and a Czech Zlin Savage Cub, one of the many Piper Cub clones out there. I didn't know it was built by the Czech company - and I d idn't get the registration... Zlin Savage Cub Next SR39 runs into the town of Blackfoot where we made a slight detour to the north of the town - this place was worthy of being called a town! - to McCarley Field, a more aptly named municipal airport (code (KU02). There were quite a few GA types and the only thing a bit different was an Air Tractor f...