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Fox5flyer
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Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2009 3:43 am Post subject: Michigan private strips

Lynn, if it's any help, there is a guy named Steve Zell here in Michigan who 

made up a directory of private airstrips in Michigan.  He spent a lot of 

time, gas, and long distance phone calls developing it and it's available 

from him at the address below.   From the amount of work he has into it, I 

doubt he did it for the money.   Just tell him I sent you.

zelconsult(at)gmail.com



Deke



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Lynn Matteson

Joined: 10 Jan 2006
Posts: 2778
Location: Grass Lake, Michigan

Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2009 4:33 am Post subject: Michigan private strips

Beat you to it, Deke....  I bought one after he came to our EAA  

chapter meeting telling of his work to "build" the directory. I carry  

it with me in the plane. I've already landed at some of the private  

strips listed, including yours as you know...again sometime soon, I  

hope. I still wanna get over to Lost Creek...that sounds like a fun  

place to go to, but it'll have to be after the ground stabilizes.



Lynn Matteson

Kitfox IV Speedster, taildragger

Jabiru 2200, #2062, 610 hrs

Sensenich 62x46

Electroair direct-fire ignition system

Status: flying

do not archive



On Mar 16, 2009, at 7:42 AM, fox5flyer wrote:



[quote] 

 <fox5flyer(at)idealwifi.net>



 Lynn, if it's any help, there is a guy named Steve Zell here in  

 Michigan who made up a directory of private airstrips in Michigan.   

 He spent a lot of time, gas, and long distance phone calls  

 developing it and it's available from him at the address below.    

 From the amount of work he has into it, I doubt he did it for the  

 money.   Just tell him I sent you.

 zelconsult(at)gmail.com



 Deke



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_________________
Lynn
Kitfox IV-Jabiru 2200
N369LM

Fox5flyer
Guest

Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2009 5:20 am Post subject: Michigan private strips

Lost Creek at Luzerne is probably fine as it's sandy, high and dry.  Give me 

some notice before you come up and I'll ensure the restaurant is open.  Mio 

is also a good one with the eatery right at the airport.

Deke

do not archive

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vetdrem

Joined: 20 Nov 2007
Posts: 62

Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2009 8:02 am Post subject: Re: Michigan private strips

Lost Creek has the best "bar burger" that I've had.  I thought that they were closed, but it would be great if they are still in business.



Mio is where I bought my Kitfox.  A friend of mine has a T-craft like mine at MIO and told me about the Kitfox.  It is a nice place to stop to grab some chow.  I am always impressed with their breakfasts.  A group of us fly over there from Houghton Lake for breakfast a couple times a year.

msm_9949(at)yahoo.com
Guest

Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2009 8:33 am Post subject: Michigan private strips

Lynn, 

  

 Let me know when you're going, stop in Evart (9C8) and we'll fly formation to either of those destinations. You'll have to dog it tho so's I can keep up. 

  

 Marco Menezes N99KX

 Nodel 2 592-90 C-Box 3:1 w/clutch



--- On Mon, 3/16/09, fox5flyer <fox5flyer(at)idealwifi.net> wrote:



 [quote]From: fox5flyer <fox5flyer(at)idealwifi.net>

Subject: Re: Michigan private strips

To: kitfox-list(at)matronics.com

Date: Monday, March 16, 2009, 9:19 AM



[quote]--> Kitfox-List message posted by: "fox5flyer" <fox5flyer(at)idealwifi.net>  Lost Creek at Luzerne is probably fine as it's sandy, high and dry.  Give me some notice before you come up and I'll ensure the restaurant is open.  Mio is also a good one with the eatery right at the airport. Deke do not archive   ---

Fox5flyer
Guest

Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2009 9:11 am Post subject: Michigan private strips

Just a side note of not much importance, the Lost Creek Lodge is also where 

the Duval brothers used to hang out with their low life cronies.  For those 

of you who don't know who they are, they're the guys who killed a couple of 

Detroit area hunters and supposedly fed them to the pigs, but that part 

wasn't proven.  It was a cold case file that was finally solved 18 years 

later.  The place used to be called Linkers.

Lost Creek is notorious for having great food too, especially their omelets. 

If they aren't open, Mio airport is only about 5 minutes away and their 

restaurant is always open.

Deke

do not archive



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Lynn Matteson

Joined: 10 Jan 2006
Posts: 2778
Location: Grass Lake, Michigan

Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2009 10:50 am Post subject: Michigan private strips

Suppose that's where they get the flavor for those "bar burgers"?  

hmmmm? Can Hannibal Lecter be very far away?



Lynn Matteson

Kitfox IV Speedster, taildragger

Jabiru 2200, #2062, 614 hrs

Sensenich 62x46

Electroair direct-fire ignition system

Status: flying

do not archive



On Mar 16, 2009, at 1:09 PM, fox5flyer wrote:



[quote] 

 <fox5flyer(at)idealwifi.net>



 Just a side note of not much importance, the Lost Creek Lodge is  

 also where the Duval brothers used to hang out with their low life  

 cronies.  For those of you who don't know who they are, they're the  

 guys who killed a couple of Detroit area hunters and supposedly fed  

 them to the pigs, but that part wasn't proven.  It was a cold case  

 file that was finally solved 18 years later.  The place used to be  

 called Linkers.

 Lost Creek is notorious for having great food too, especially their  

 omelets. If they aren't open, Mio airport is only about 5 minutes  

 away and their restaurant is always open.

 Deke

 do not archive



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_________________
Lynn
Kitfox IV-Jabiru 2200
N369LM

Lynn Matteson

Joined: 10 Jan 2006
Posts: 2778
Location: Grass Lake, Michigan

Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2009 11:03 am Post subject: Michigan private strips

Sounds like a plan, Marco. And with this Northstar F210, doggin' it  

is becoming fun, lookin' at the fuel usage numbers fall. Looks like  

about 80 statute miles from Evart to Lost Creek, eh? Maybe we could  

talk Pete Smith...he's at Home Acres (Y91), just north of you.... and  

his Peitenpol (sp?) into going along. he's the guy who told me he  

flies to Oshkosh over the water at 50- 100 feet AGL, because flying  

higher than that just "prolongs the agony" (if he has an engine  

out)...he's a fun guy! You remember him...he was parked to my left in  

2007 at Oshkosh.

Lynn Matteson

Kitfox IV Speedster, taildragger

Jabiru 2200, #2062, 614 hrs

Sensenich 62x46

Electroair direct-fire ignition system

Status: flying

do not archive

On Mar 16, 2009, at 12:27 PM, Marco Menezes wrote:

 	  Quote: 	
		   Lynn,

 Let me know when you're going, stop in Evart (9C8) and we'll fly  

 formation to either of those destinations. You'll have to dog it  

 tho so's I can keep up. 

 Marco Menezes N99KX

 Nodel 2 592-90 C-Box 3:1 w/clutch

 --- On Mon, 3/16/09, fox5flyer <fox5flyer(at)idealwifi.net> wrote:

 From: fox5flyer <fox5flyer(at)idealwifi.net>

 Subject: Re: Michigan private strips

 To: kitfox-list(at)matronics.com

 Date: Monday, March 16, 2009, 9:19 AM

 <fox5flyer(at)idealwifi.net> Lost Creek at Luzerne is probably fine as  

 it's sandy, high and dry. Give me some notice before you come up  

 and I'll ensure the restaurant is open. Mio is also a good one with  

 the eatery right at the airport. Deke do not archive ----- Original  

 Message ----- From: "Lynn Matteson" <lynnmatt(at)jps.net> To: <kitfox- 

 list(at)matronics.com> Sent: Monday, March 16, 2009 8:32 AM Subject:  

 Re: Michigan private strips > --> Kitfox-List message  

 posted by: Lynn Matteson <lynnmatt(at)jps.net> > > Beat you to it,  

 Deke.... I bought one after he came to our EAA chapter meeting  

 telling of his work to "build" the directory. I carry it with me in  

 the plane. I've already landed at some of the private strips  

 listed, including yours as you know...again sometime soon, I hope.  

 I still wanna get over to Lost Creek...that sounds like a fun place  

 to go to, but it'll have to be after the ground stabilizes. > >  

 Lynn Matteson > Kitfox IV Speedster, taildragger > Jabiru 2200,  

 #2062, 610 hrs > Sensenich 62x46 > Electroair direct-fire ignition  

 system > Status: flying > do not archive > > > > On Mar 16, 2009,  

 at 7:42 AM, fox5flyer wrote: > >> --> Kitfox-List message posted  

 by: "fox5flyer" <fox5flyer(at)idealwifi.net> >> >> Lynn, if it's any  

 help, there is a guy named Steve Zell here in Michigan who made up  

 a directory of private airstrips in Michigan. He spent a lot of  

 time, gas, and long distance phone calls developing it and it's  

 available from him at the address below. From the amount of work he  

 has into it, I doubt he did it for the money. Just tell him I sent  

 you. >> zelconsult(at)gmail.com >> >> Deke >> >> ----- Original  

 Message ----- From: "Lynn Matteson" <lynnmatt(at)jps.net> >> To:  

 <kitfox-list(at)matronics.com> >> Sent: Monday, March 16, 2009 6:21 AM  

 >> Subject: Re: RE: Jeff Puls 1951-2009 >> >> >>> -->  

 Kitfox-List message posted by: Lynn Matteson <lynnmatt(at)jps.net> >>>  

 >>> That's why I try to fly as much as I can.....the memories were  

 starting to catch up to the dreams. I once thought it would be nice  

 to touch down in all the 48 states (the ones that I don't have to  

 kiss somebody's a- - to travel to), but I'm starting to think that  

 Michigan needs my gas money more than the other states (my  

 rationalization for staying home?), so maybe I should try for all  

 the airports in Michigan....something like 500 if you count all the  

 private, non-charted ones. >>> >>> Lynn Matteson >>> Kitfox IV  

 Speedster, taildragger >>> Jabiru 2200, #2062, 610 hrs >>>  

 Sensenich 62x46 >>> Electroair direct-fire ignition system >>>  

 Status: flying >>> do not archive >>> >>> >>> >>> On Mar 15, 2009,  

 at 1:45 PM, Michel Verheughe wrote: >>>> Meanwhile, I wish I could  

 fly as much as our friend Lynn, right now but ... they say you're  

 old when you have more memories than dreams. Hell, I still have a  

 lot of dreams, just wait and see, mister!  >>>> >>>> Cheers,  

 >>>> Michel Verheughe >>>> Norway >>>> Kitfox 3 - Jabiru 2200 -  

 hasn't been flying for months. >>>> >>>> <pre><b><font size   

 color="#000000" face="courier new,courier"> >>>> >>>> List">http:// 

 www.matronics.com/Navigator?Kitfox-List</a> >>>>  

 forums.matronics.com</a> >>>> www.matronics.com/contribution</a>  

 >>>> >>>> </b></font></pre> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> >> >> > > > > >

 www.matronics.com/contribution _- 

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Lynn
Kitfox IV-Jabiru 2200
N369LM

matronics(at)bob.brennan.
Guest

Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2009 11:47 am Post subject: Michigan private strips

Check if the bar burgers are server with fava beans and a nice chianti...



Personally it brought to mind the slogan "It takes all kinds of critters to

make Farmer Vincent's fritters" (ibid Motel Hell, nowhere near Lost Creek of

course...) 



definitely do not archive :-S



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vetdrem

Joined: 20 Nov 2007
Posts: 62

Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2009 1:30 pm Post subject: Re: Michigan private strips

Lynn,



This is terrible news, so I'm sorry to be the one to tell you.



Pete passed away a week or so ago.  He was in Florida, hanger flying with the guys at the seaplane school there, and had a heart attack and died right there.  His great friend, Clyde, called me the day he died and told me.



Clyde said that he was doing what he liked doing second best, hanger flying.  His favorite thing was actually flying.



He wouldn't have been able to fly the pietenpol this summer anyway.  Clyde called me in January and said that Pete's hanger had caved in because of the heavy snow load, and crushed the pietnpol. 



He was re-building a Champ this winter in Tennessee before he went to Florida, and was expecting to go back to Home Acres in March or April.



Sorry to pass on this bad news.



Louie Champeau

Model 3  912ul  and '41 t-craft (bf-65)

Houghton Lake, Mi  (5y2)

and Altus, Arkansas in the winter.

Lynn Matteson

Joined: 10 Jan 2006
Posts: 2778
Location: Grass Lake, Michigan

Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2009 5:06 pm Post subject: Michigan private strips

At first I didn't know which Pete you meant, then it hit me...Pete  

Smith! My God....what a shock....he had given me his location on the  

"south side of 27 in a double wide mobile home" and I had written it  

on my Michigan Aeronautical Chart which I have before me, planning  

the trip to Lost Creek. Jeez, what a shame. I never even got the  

chance to get up there and see him. Damn, I gotta start doing these  

thing before somebody else goes away, or I do!



When Pete packed up for the trip home from Osh in 2007, he showed me  

how to prop a plane....I never had done this before....and then I  

walked the wing past a few tents until it seemed like he was clear of  

them all. But the "parking honcho" caught up with him out on the  

taxiway and flagged him down, telling him that he had brushed a tent,  

and he (the honcho) looked the wingtip over and declared it  

undamaged, and waved him away. That week was the first time I had met  

Pete, and the last time I saw Pete, complete with his leather flying  

helmet and goggles,(if I'm recalling the goggles correctly)...what a  

shame....well, I guess this is to be expected when I/we get to be  

this age.



Thanks for letting me know, Louie.



Lynn Matteson

Kitfox IV Speedster, taildragger

Jabiru 2200, #2062, 615.2 hrs

Sensenich 62x46

Electroair direct-fire ignition system

Status: flying

do not archive



On Mar 16, 2009, at 5:30 PM, vetdrem wrote:



 	  Quote: 	
		   



 Lynn,



 This is terrible news, so I'm sorry to be the one to tell you.



 Pete passed away a week or so ago.  He was in Florida, hanger  

 flying with the guys at the seaplane school there, and had a heart  

 attack and died right there.  His great friend, Clyde, called me  

 the day he died and told me.



 Clyde said that he was doing what he liked doing second best,  

 hanger flying.  His favorite thing was actually flying.



 He wouldn't have been able to fly the pietenpol this summer  

 anyway.  Clyde called me in January and said that Pete's hanger had  

 caved in because of the heavy snow load, and crushed the pietnpol.



 He was re-building a Champ this winter in Tennessee before he went  

 to Florida, and was expecting to go back to Home Acres in March or  

 April.



 Sorry to pass on this bad news.



 Louie Champeau

 Model 3  912ul  and '41 t-craft (bf-65)

 Houghton Lake, Mi  (5y2)

 and Altus, Arkansas in the winter.





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Kitfox IV-Jabiru 2200
N369LM

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