Flyshioc

10/03/2026

So, hop onto your way-back machine and go back a couple of months. To be specific, early to mid-July. Remember those days of near 100º, the humidity and do you remember the smoke?? Those are the days you tell yourself in just a couple of months the weather will be so much nicer. This was one of those days. Cool and dry, lots of sunshine with a slow breeze, unlimited visibility; an early autumn day that we wish we could bottle to save for weeks.

What better way to celebrate these wonderful autumn days than to invite the Shiocton 5th graders to an afternoon at the airport? We have indoctrinated them into all things Civil Air Patrol, into why they should seek future employment into aviation, both civil and military, how airplanes defy both gravity and checking accounts, the hows and whys of aeronautical charts, how to soar among the birds in a paramotor and the basics of how airplanes work.

Unfortunately, our time with the kids always runs short and we here at W34 are forced to wait another year to be able to do this again. Thanks, as always to the 5th grade teachers for their faith in us not screwing up too badly and to the school administration in allowing these field trips to broaden young minds.

09/20/2026

09/19/2026

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09/14/2026

Bales of straw on the edge of the runway in what's considered a ditch?

Whatever could they be for?

09/11/2026

Yay! Time to remake airport sign panels. If all the vinyl would of been black, they would of made it a few more years. And moss grows on everything.

So the plan... take off the frames, get them blasted and painted in DTM white, new stainless hardware including stainless shackles this time.

New alumilite panels, all black vinyl this time. Update our web address as the shioctonairport.com has been gone for a few years now.

Reassemble, hang and enjoy for the next 20 years when I won't be worrying about them again. Let the next generation replace them in another 20 years. Right??

09/11/2026

Now, you may have sensed a disturbance in the air today. Not to worry, just things happening at the airport. If we go back to the 2025 Fly-in, you might remember the Brian Polsin sign panel made and presented to the Bob Polsin family during a Sunday afternoon presentation. If you also remember, the panel was hung shortly afterward and Shiocton being what it is, a little benign thunderstorm came along and totally destroyed it.

Things run at their own speed here at the airport and we didn't have a replacement in time for this year's Fly-in. We've been discussing for a couple of years about renewing all of the old sign panels because 20 years of weather have taken their toll. So, the stars were finally all in alignment, the old sign panels came down and a new Brian Polsin memorial sign panel went up. Bigger and instead of red plastic sandwiched in the sign, we now went with sheet aluminium for the highlites.

09/07/2026

Here is the Line Up for Bands for the 2026 Haunt Season. Save the Dates!