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Kingsbury Aerodrome Revisit

Two years ago, we discovered the Kingsbury Aerodrome, not more than thirty minutes from where we live.   Its not advertised broadly, perhaps because those who need to know about it already know about it. The Kingsbury Aerodrome is a privately held 501(c)3 organization that is home for the fair and open house of the Pioneer Flight Museum.  For this, don't think of a Museum like a building housing all sorts of artifacts.  Think instead of a budding effort by an owner of a sod airstrip and a perhaps a 100 acres of once pastureland, plus some metal barns that are in the first stages of becoming storage places for vintage aircraft.  And another vital component is the large number of members who are volunteers to take care of the site and help with the annual fly and drive in. We missed last years fly in because we chose instead to go to Alpine to the convention of the Center for Big Bend Studies---its always on the same date as the fly-in.  This year we chose the Fly-in as we did not l