Clutching a toy plane, Ryder McVicar, 2, of Oliver checks out a Cessna at the South Okanagan Flying Club annual fly-in breakfast on Saturday. His parents say already Ryder has visions of becoming a pilot. (Richard McGuire photo)
For airplane buffs ranging from toddlers to seniors it was a chance to socialize and share their enthusiasm for aviation. Members of the South Okanangan Flying Club held their annual fly-in breakfast at Oliver airport on Saturday morning.
Most of the club’s 25 members come from Oliver and Osoyoos, but the fundraising event was open to the general public.
Victor Seder, club president, said the event is also held to promote the airport and bring the community in to see the club member’s planes.
Many members of the public wandered among the hangars and admired a number of home-built planes. Throughout the event, planes landed and took off as members flew in for the breakfast or flew up to demonstrate their planes.
Clutching a toy plane, Ryder McVicar, 2, of Oliver checks out a Cessna at the South Okanagan Flying Club annual fly-in breakfast on Saturday. His parents say already Ryder has visions of becoming a pilot. (Richard McGuire photo)
Three planes fly overhead in formation at the South Okanagan Flying Club’s annual fly-in breakfast at Oliver Airport on Saturday. (Richard McGuire photo)
Bill Guthrie of Oliver directs traffic as one plane after another lands at Oliver Airport for the South Okanagan Flying Club’s annual fly-in breakfast on Saturday. (Richard McGuire photo)
Visitors admire a number of home-built planes outside the hangars at the Oliver Airport during the South Okanagan Flying Club’s annual fly-in breakfast. (Richard McGuire photo)
Wayne Huk of Osoyoos shows his progress so far in building a Zenith 750 high-wing short take-off and landing (STOL) plane from a kit in a hangar at Oliver Airport. This is the first plane he’s built and he says there are about 7,000 rivets. He’s invested about 400 hours in the project so far and he figures he’s around the halfway point. Huk was at the South Okanagan Flying Club’s annual fly-in breakfast on Saturday. (Richard McGuire photo)
Walt Lannon (second from right) was flying this CJ6A Nanchang, a Chinese People’s Liberation Army training plane from the 1960s. There were several of these planes at the South Okanagan Flying Club’s annual fly-in breakfast on Saturday. (Richard McGuire photo)
Walt Lannon pulls his CJ6A Nanchang, a Chinese People’s Liberation Army training plane from the 1960s. There were several of these planes at the South Okanagan Flying Club’s annual fly-in breakfast on Saturday. (Richard McGuire photo)
Paul Dumoret of Osoyoos flies low over the runway at Oliver Airport during the South Okanagan Flying Club’s annual fly-in breakfast on Saturday. Dumoret was flying a Nanchang CJ-6A, a training plane used by the Chinese People’s Liberation Army in the 1960s. There were several of these planes at the event. (Richard McGuire photo)
Paul Dumoret of Osoyoos is at the controls of his Chinese plane at Oliver Airport during the South Okanagan Flying Club’s annual fly-in breakfast on Saturday. Dumoret was flying a Nanchang CJ-6A, a training plane used by the Chinese People’s Liberation Army in the 1960s. There were several of these planes at the event. (Richard McGuire photo)
