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Show off your support for the RAF and your favorite airstrips with this collector’s edition keychain. This keychain features a unique bronze hook, an RAF token, and leather that is stamped with the RAF’s logo. Each keychain comes with the RAF token. Order airstrip tokens separately to collect your favorite airstrips. The leather piece for…

A substantial volunteer effort took place at Two Hearted airstrip (6Y5) during the last two weeks of October. RAF supporter Jerry Ness donated his time and use of his equipment to re-grade a significant portion of the airstrip, with Michigan Liaison Brad Frederick, Leon Everhart and Mike Hintz also contributing time and energy to the project. Frederick explains that Two Hearted airstrip, 6Y5 is closed until the State…

The RAF hopes this view of a starlit night at Ryan Field captures your imagination as it did ours. This limited edition of 100 numbered metal prints are individually signed by photographer Charlie Voorhis, and are enhanced with an RAF medallion created by RAF supporter Pete Smith of Lewistown, Montana. Measuring 23.5” x 16”, these…

The RAF was invited to be the first of 13 parties to sign the New Mexico Airstrip Network (NMAN) Memorandum of Understanding renewal. “I’m proud to have been at the signing of the original MOU, and this renewal is proof that our combined efforts are worthwhile. The RAF will gladly shoulder our responsibilities going forward,” RAF…

RAF Maine Liaison Steve Mason has reported on a successful improvement project at Norridgewock, Maine, KOWK. The municipal airport has multiple asphalt runways and a parallel turf airstrip. Mason learned that the town would not maintain the turf airfield, so he obtained an RAF grant to reclaim and enhance safety at the strip. “The grass…

RAF President Bill McGlynn was a panelist on the AOPA Air Safety Institute’s “Back to the Back Country: 2021 in review” live webinar November 18. This presentation was a segment of the Air Safety Institute’s Backcountry Safety Initiative that the RAF participated in last May. The free webinar was a reflection on recent backcountry flight accidents in…

The RAF is adding podcasts of stories about flying, airplanes and how and why people bond with this organization. In our latest installment, Bill McGlynn talks to Director Bill Brine and discusses the steps involved in saving a recreational airstrip. Now you can enjoy The RAF and Backcountry Flying 30-minute podcasts on Spotify, Google Podcasts, Overcast, and Apple podcasts on your smartphone or laptop, or…

RAF Florida Liaison Bobby Capozzi has been awarded an RAF grant for continued maintenance at Blackwater airfield (8FD3) near Munson, Florida, 33 nm northeast of Pensacola. “This grant will benefit the aviation community and continue our current relationship that the RAF enjoys with the Florida State Forestry who owns the airfield,” Capozzi says. This grant will…

RAF Southeast Alaska Liaison Jeff DeFreest has motivated volunteers to help preserve some of the 140 US Forest Service cabins in the vast Tongass National Forest. Some are in jeopardy of closure due to perceived lack of use. “RAF volunteers delivered our USFS approved RAF informational letters throughout August, September and October to seventeen of these…

Forest Service District Ranger Ron Wiseman served the Judith-Musselshell Ranger District of the Lewis and Clark National Forest throughout the permitting and creation of Montana’s Russian Flat airstrip. He has announced his retirement from the Forest Service. From the very inception, the RAF and the Montana Pilots Association joined efforts to gain approval on the…