CAP Flying Association

2026 Annual Banquet - What a great evening!

Flying + Golf + Crew = Good time

Windsock hats and a grill in our Cessna Hangar must be a CAPFA monthly meeting! Grill Master Jeff, thanks for the great burgers!

The Archer hangar had a new mini fridge! What’s inside? Stock it up with your favorite post flight ✈️ beverage!

N12766 is heading out today. Where are we going? Hint is in the Garmin 430!

CAPFA Sunday Challenge! Name this Airport.
Hint: Altitude of photo 5,500’ MSL

N33121 fueling up this morning, early at an airport to the East or Hartford. Any idea where this fuel ⛽️ pump is?

6,500’ above all the Mass Pike Traffic in our Piper Archer N33121 on with Boston Center.

N33121 was spying on N12766 on our way to Keene, NH. Beautiful flight this afternoon at 5,500’ and a awesome lunch at Mamma McDonough’s $100 burgers and Cornbeef

N33121 can’t resist remaining Hangared on a beautiful New England Morning. The Flight Deck at Southbridge Airport calls for some breakfast and breathtaking route 84 scenery.

Get to know CAPFA. Spotlight: Mark Kelly

Ratings; private pilot, multi-engine. Commercial pilot, single engine, instrument, single engine seaplane. Endorsements; high performance and complex. Up-set attitude and spin training and some aerobic flying. 940+ total hours.

Favorite airport overall; BID. Class D; HFD, great controllers. Fav short field; Goodspeed. Fav soft field; Katama on Marth’s Vineyard.

Skydiving; three static line jumps out of a Cessna 182, one tandem jump.

Fav restaurant; Ellen’s at Block Island or Plane Jane’s at PYM.

Most exciting landing; HFD, wind 060 @ 20g28. Or any seaplane landing.

Longest w/o fuel stop; 59B to KWST, 266nm.

Furthest in club plane;KHFD to 59B, Jackman, Maine.

CAPFA has great members, is run extremely well, and the aircraft are maintained to a high degree.

Shortest; 9B8 Salmon River 2k feet grass in C172.

Never had a dead stick landing. Once experienced an engine out at 850agl. Restarted and flew on (always sump after refueling).

How did you get into flying? My father was a fighter pilot (and member of the Mach 2 club, pilots who have flown twice the speed of sound). Took me up in a Cherokee when I was six. Been loving aviation ever since.