Archive for October 2025

RAF President Bill McGlynn has worked for years with the Nez Perce-Clearwater National Forest, advocating for a way to ensure the ongoing preservation and maintenance of seven airstrips on the Forest. Moose Creek, within the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness; Shearer along the Selway River; Dixie USFS with access to the Gospel Hump Wilderness; Orogrande along Crooked Creek; Wilson…

RAF Utah Liaison Wendy Lessig has played a key role in helping the Utah DOT Aeronautics Division obtain BLM authorization to place portable weather stations at eleven backcountry airstrips across Utah on BLM-managed lands. “Actual weather conditions at remote backcountry airstrips are often quite different from local airport weather reports, which might be many miles away,” Lessig pointed…

“Perfect October Ozark weather welcomed about twenty volunteers who descended, literally, on Trigger Gap Airfield for a weekend work party,” RAF Arkansas Liaison Harper Goodwin reports. Some drove in, and about 15 airplanes arrived with volunteers, their gloves, tools, chainsaws, and tents on Saturday, October 11. The crew hung two new RAF windsocks, stained the…

Ryan Field, 2MT1, is CLOSED Temporarily. See the gravel and bare areas on the Ryan Field runway in this October photo? We are closing the runway now to begin our plan to recover the bare areas with soil and new grass. “We are going to give it our best shot starting the week of October…

The RAF warmly welcomes Luke Reber to the State Liaison team. Luke was born and raised in McPherson, Kansas, where his passion for aviation began at an early age. Inspired by his father, Luke earned his Private Pilots License at 17, and has since added an instrument rating, seaplane rating, and a tailwheel endorsement. Over the past…

The RAF thanks the Seaplane Pilots Association (SPA) for their financial contribution to help preserve and maintain the Southeast Heckman Cabin in Alaska’s Tongass National Forest, a public-use, fly-in cabin. Cabin maintenance had been deferred due to slim budgets, and the dock had sustained winter ice damage, making the ADA accessible ramp ineffective. A collaborative effort between the RAF and USFS took care of these needed maintenance items. “Given the number of USFS cabins accessible only…