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Concrete Fly In and mother nature's own air show.

The Concrete Municipal Airport is the home base of the Concrete Fly-In on July 24, 25, and 26, 2009. This annual event attracts aviators from all over the Pacific Northwest and parts of Canada.

The airport has a 2,600-foot paved runway and a 1,600-foot grass runway. The paved runway can handle aircraft up to
approximately 12,000 pounds. In addition to small civilian planes, the airport also sees use by helicopters, including those operated by law-enforcement and federal agencies, as well as helicopter-logging companies. Also on site is a lighted medi-vac pad for hospital airlifts.

Hundreds of planes are on display on the ground and above for the three day event. On Friday, July 24, we witnessed many different models, and different colored planes buzzing overhead all day long. Some were actually performing stunts in the air above our home. They were putting on quite the air show all that day.

Yesterday was a different kind of air show, however. Mother nature took the controls; lit up the afternoon and evening sky with brilliant shades of purple and blazing white lightening above the mountain tops, as the thunder cracked loudly above us and rolled down across the valleys.