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April 2025 - District I

The following report came from another of our talented team of active Associate Vice Presidents, Jim Cyr: Welcome Champlain Valley Flyers (CVF) to District I. The district officers and members are looking forward to your club’s activities and events that some of us have had the pleasure of attending during your 23 years at your Crown Point, New York, site. Congratulations on acquiring the use of a new site from a sixth-generation landowner, Ed Peet, who just happened to have an airfield on his property in Vermont (District I).

I attended your inaugural, four-day Valley of the Giants event at the new site in July, and the Warbirds Over Cornwall event in August 2024. I and others were blown away by the airfield. Its open and unobstructed space, enormous size, picturesque scenic view, and the use of the fullscale and the grass runways to accommodate nearly any model aircraft, made for a perfect flying site. I will check their Facebook page to attend events in 2025.

Thanks, Jim, for this fine report about a welcoming club and a great place to fly.

Group of six smiling people outdoors on a sunny day, wearing casual clothes and sunglasses.
Pictured are the Ed Peet family with club members during the club’s warbird event in Cornwall VT.
Three men watch a model airplane flying over a grassy field.
(Third from L): Jim Cyr, with other pilots, enjoyed flying high-speed warbird strafing flights over this fabulously long, unobstructed airfield during the CVF club’s warbird event.
Aerial view of a flyer event with vehicles, tents, a runway, and aircraft illustrations.
In 2024, the District II CVF club acquired the use of the site above with a full-scale and grass runway on the Peet family’s farm in Vermont. The photo is from the club’s Warbirds Over Cornwall event in August 2024.
Outdoor fair with tents, trailers, and people on a grassy field near a red barn.
CVF’s inaugural event at its new site in District I was the Valley of the Giants, held on July 25-28, 2024. All of the pilots and spectators were impressed by the facility, camaraderie, and the flying fun they had.
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