Mooney Fly-In, SMX

[MooneyMitch]

Informal event this is.  Santa Maria, CA, Sunday, February 26, arrive 11 AM, 12 noon lunch at Pepper Garcia Mexican restaurant on field.

1:30 PM tour ArtCraft Paint facility.  

Park your plane on ArtCraft ramp, located just North of tower.  Easy to see and access.

Some place fun to fly and a reason to fly.......

MooneyMitch

[kmyfm20s]

Sounds fun! Will do my best to be there!!

[Bennett]

Great idea. I'll try to join you.


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[Ron McBride]

Hopefully We can join you also.

Ron

[thinwing]

Me too!

[MooneyMitch]

That's terrific!  It will be so very nice to see you all.   

Hope the weather is good and all that.......I have eaten at Pepper  Garcia's alone many times, but it sure will be super fun to have great Mooney company this time. 

[MooneyMitch]

Oh, and if you want to make a little weekend get away, our new Starlight Dreamband is playing great listening and dancing music Saturday night (25th) at the incredibly ostentatious Madonna Inn, Grand Ballroom. 

[MB65E]

Sounds like fun...

Tentiave yes!!

-Matt

[Skates97]

Would love to... but Sundays are busy with church/family. If there's another one on a Saturday within a few hundred miles of SoCal I'll be there. 

[FlyDave]

I should be able to make it.

[FlyDave]

I should be able to make it.

[NotarPilot]

I plan to attend too. Looking forward to seeing everyone and meeting new friends. I'm also looking forward to seeing the paint shop and seeing their work first hand.

[MooneyMitch]

10 hours ago, Skates97 said:

Would love to... but Sundays are busy with church/family. If there's another one on a Saturday within a few hundred miles of SoCal I'll be there. 

We'll do another for a Saturday.  Think of a place you might like to visit and we'll do it.   Have Mooney will travel........FAST!!!

[Andy95W]

Must be nice to just pick any ol' day and you can bet the weather will be nice.  I'm a little jealous during Jan/Feb I guess.

[MooneyMitch]

We are fortunate in that fact, but you have such beautiful places to fly in your area of the country during spring, summer or fall......like Oshkosh!  

[thinwing]

14 hours ago, MooneyMitch said:

Oh, and if you want to make a little weekend get away, our new Starlight Dreamband is playing great listening and dancing music Saturday night (25th) at the incredibly ostentatious Madonna Inn, Grand Ballroom. 

Are you part of the band Mitch?

[MooneyMitch]

I co-created the new group.  I participate as business person, front person on stage, vocalist and lead trumpet player....... other times I just hang out in the bar! 

[MooneyMitch]

Incidentally, Alex Madonna (Madonna Inn) Construction was responsible for grading and creating the hard surface we now know as L52, Oceano Airport.  Circa 1953 ish I believe.

[MHemperly]

We will do our best to make it. Last time we saw Teresa was at the right seat ready class for my pregnant wife. The baby has since arrived and I'm sure she would love to meet the little one. And it would be great to see ya'll again. I don't  think I've seen you Mitch since chino airshow 2014. 

[MooneyMitch]

3 hours ago, MHemperly said:

We will do our best to make it. Last time we saw Teresa was at the right seat ready class for my pregnant wife. The baby has since arrived and I'm sure she would love to meet the little one. And it would be great to see ya'll again. I don't  think I've seen you Mitch since chino airshow 2014. 

Congratulations to you two!  Bringing your little one up in the back of the Mooney?  So fun!!

If you can, yes, it would be terrific to see you too, and of course gander at your Mooney.  The beauty of a fly in, and especially to us Mooniacs, is that we are indeed a special breed of airplane owners.  We are fanatics about our brand!

And, what better excuse to go flying beyond our standard loop we make in our local flights.  So, if ya'll can, come on up.  It's something super fun to look forward to!

 

[wishboneash]

I will try to be there too. Never been to Santa Maria before.

[MooneyMitch]

46 minutes ago, wishboneash said:

I will try to be there too. Never been to Santa Maria before.

What a fun flight from LVK to SMX and return.  Done that route many times in the past.  Beautiful!   Hope you can make the event.

[thinwing]

Ok I'm there!

[MooneyMitch]

Ok, great!  Again, very informal this little fly in is.  If it's convenient, weather's good, tires are pumped up and the stars are in alignment and you want to take a fun flight in your gorgeous Mooney, then come on to SMX for that date/time. 

If the tire's flat, or whatever.........no biggie.............we'll do it again, and maybe some other place too in the near future.  The sky's the limit, so to speak.  Have Mooney will travel................fast [well, my little Mini-Mooney is not quite as fast as the Ovation was, but............it's still a kick in the pants and I'm incredibly lucky to have it!]

[thinwing]

23 hours ago, MooneyMitch said:

Ok, great!  Again, very informal this little fly in is.  If it's convenient, weather's good, tires are pumped up and the stars are in alignment and you want to take a fun flight in your gorgeous Mooney, then come on to SMX for that date/time. 

If the tire's flat, or whatever.........no biggie.............we'll do it again, and maybe some other place too in the near future.  The sky's the limit, so to speak.  Have Mooney will travel................fast [well, my little Mini-Mooney is not quite as fast as the Ovation was, but............it's still a kick in the pants and I'm incredibly lucky to have it!]

She's a beauty!