CRANLAND 28M MARSHFIELD 3B2 PLYMOUTH PYM MASSACHUSETTS

[Seaworthy]

Anyone headed to SE Massachusetts, CapeCod? I know this is not ideal cub country, but we have many miles of beaches to fly, whale watching over Stellwagen Bank, historical stuff and the Berkshire, and Adirondack Mountains two hours west.

Tom & Connie Constantine
510 Brook Street
Hanson, MA
781-293-7579
popasmoke@capecod.net

[Tim]

Tom
I've been over there a couple of times. I took my daughter to a collage reunion on the Cape. I droped her at Chattem, and looked around a little before heading home. I went back 3 or 4 days later to pick her up and looked around that day also. Nice part of the country. Didn't see any whales though.

Tim

[Seaworthy]

If you fly about 305 to 310 degrees Mag six miles off Provincetown that will put you in the area of Stellwagen bank where the whales are. A gent from PYM who has a KitFox Classic IV goes out there all the time in the summer. We also have a guy who is a fish spotter who flys out over the Grand Banks with a modified Cub(belly gas tank). He goes out for ten plus hours!! (?? two hundred plus miles to sea in a single engine!!) He blew a jug one day two years ago and flew about 75 miles with partial power and the engine held together all the way to Plymouth.

[Flying Miss Daisy]

The guy with the kitfox is not named Jim he has a kitfox with nubby tires. John

[Seaworthy]

Yes It's Jim Lionberger. In another life Jim was a USAF fighter pilot. I think he retired as a bird colonel.

[Flying Miss Daisy]

Hey Tom: I would not call the Cape total NON Cub country. There are three great grass strips in that area. On Cape you have Barnstable a beautiful old time grass strip. On the island of Martha's Vineyard you have Katama that is grass alongside a beautiful beach that you can walk a 150 yards to and put your feet in the warm Nantucket Sound and I have been into Myriicks over next to Taunton (TAN). I am sorry to say that in that neck of the woods the populous seem to like pavement a whole lot more than grass. Better to plow since no one even knows what skis look like. It is my understanding that Cranland has a strong EAA chapter that puts on a pancake breakfast on partial Sundays. If you could get the info on that we may be able to entice a few fellows to brave the dreaded boston class B airspace. John

[Seaworthy]

Cranland (28M) Fly in pancake breakfast the last Sunday of the month starting in April (it can be cold) and the last is in October. As a matter of fact I am one of the guys flipping pancakes.

One of the guys in EAA 279 Cranland has begun flight testing of his Newport which he put the finishing touches on last autumn. The A/C has flown, but the flight testing has been incremental as there have been a couple of close calls. We have a J-3 that doesn't fly much due to ongoing insurance issues--what's new?

Have been into Katama several times. Restaurant on premises and beach and showers on site. Will give W Barnstable a shot this summer. Myricks is permission only I believe.

[kase]

I towed banners out of 2B1 on the Cape for 3 summers. Nice airport with great people.

http://www.airnav.com/airport/2B1

[Flying Miss Daisy]

It was The town shut it down a few years back some problem with the operator??? It almost did not survive. It recently reopened under a new operator. I have not flown in and met this fellow. I also do not know the whole story of the previous operator. Any comments Tom C ? John

[kase]

Previous operator died in a plane crash. The land was owned by the Danforth family and they decided to sell. Thats when the city bought the ground and reopened the airport. The town had nothing to do with the airport untill they bought it last year.

[Flying Miss Daisy]

Thanks for the straight scoop. You always hear things third party and I was unsure of what happened. I guess the word was the uncertainty of what the town would do was the big topic at the hangar flyers row at PYM Cafe. John

[Seaworthy]

Ditto kase. The folks that owned it wanted to unload it and I believe that they sold it for less than fair market on the assurance that it would be kept as a small airport in perpetuity.

John---Sue McManus said to say Hi.!!!!