My weekly BC aviation updates and travel blogs

Thursday June 27th 2024 ... After a night in Pendleton OR, before heading out on the road again we headed up to the Eastern Oregon airport (code KPDT) which is on a plateau on top of a hill at the north side of the city.  As a result, it was incredibly windy - on this day anyway - and you can see miles and miles of rolling countryside every direction.  It was served by Horizon Air up to 2008 to Seattle, then taken over by SeaPort Airlines with a Pilatus PC12 to Portland as an Essential Air Service until their bankruptcy in 2016.  It is now continued by Boutique Air also with a PC12 and one was present next to the small terminal.  Fedex Feeder also have C208 Cargomaster flights to La Grande OR and Spokane WA.  There was quite a nice selection of GA, some fairly rare, but the hi-light was a pair of Vietnam veteran Chinook helicopters now operated by the Oregon Air National Guard, though photographing them was hard.  There was also a Huey shell I have still ha...

I (and my non aviation interested but very patient wife) took an 11 day road trip from my home city of Vancouver BC to visit friends in very rural Idaho and took in almost 40 airfields in the process!   As a preface, I am interested in every aspect of aviation and its history.  I am an old fashioned, traditional plane spotter where I collect as many registrations as possible and I enjoy finding rare types whether it be airliners, general aviation, helicopters or warbirds and looking into the history of the frames.  I was amazed as looking them up how many are service veterans from Vietnam and other conflicts, which to me brings the hobby life. For more information like this on all of my photos plus the other aircraft not rare enough to be listed here, you can visit my Flickr page under my name Vernon Harvey, I have albums for every  airfield.   https://www.flickr.com/photos/23870098@N04/albums After using the Peace Arch border crossing from Douglas in ...