Winni by Air
While working on our dock on East Bear Island this Friday afternoon, several airplanes passed overhead as they prepared to land at the Laconia airport. Curious where these folks are from, and now coming to their places on our wonderful lake. Several years ago, we had neighbors who flew in from New Jersey and Texas. 🐻
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I used to come up from CT.
Now my comings and goings are from Laconia. |
FL to NH
We had friends who divided their time between Naples FL and Gilford.
He flew a Piper turboprop back and forth. Landed at LCI (Laconia). Dave |
I come up from Mass, it's fun but doesn't really save time.
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My sister's family used to fly up from Reston, VA for an occasional weekend in a Cessna 172. That was fun but eventually they just moved to NH.
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Slightly off topic, but I have memories of dropping off a family member in the 1980s at Laconia for a flight to New York City--not sure which airport. Does anyone remember this airline service or any other that has served Laconia over the years?
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Isn't that Bill Marriott in the big white jet that circles out over Tuftonboro, arriving or departing from Chicago or someplace, before landing at Laconia Airport?
He always flutters the wings as he flies by ......... helloooooooo and gooooodbye!:D:D |
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Yellow Birds
Northeast Airlines served Laconia for several years. Their twin engine Yellow Birds would flock to our area.
We also would see the "Caroline" there when the Kennedy family came to ski in New Hampshire. |
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Phl - Laconia
In the late 70's my parents would put me on a plane from Phila. to Boston to Laconia. I think the airline from Boston to Laconia was Winnipesaukee Air.
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Here's a breif article with a little history of Laconia Airport
https://www.laconiadailysun.com/comm...b8fa38b42.html |
Very interesting article. Thank you for posing
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The original owners, Walt and Suki Fawcett sold it in the late 80's and I believe they are the people operating the airport/airpark in Wolfeboro, now. |
conducting
Back in the late 60s-early 70s, my years as a counsellor at Camp Idlewild, I did not like being in camp on opening or closing day. The result was myself and two other staff members did "conducting" duties. We would travel to NYC the day before and went out to the airports to meet campers flying from various (usually far-off) places and get them onto the overnight charter buses up to camp. We would next fly to Boston and repeat the job, and come back to camp on the bus with the campers. Occasionally, this involved a flight between Laconia and Boston on what was then Winnipesaukee Aviation. We soon discovered that it was the only airline that was always on time, handled unaccompanied minors without batting an eye, and dealt safely and creatively with weather issues in order to stay on time. They earned our affectionate nickname of "Pterodactyl Airlines". They must have enjoyed that - I overheard a funny background conversation on the phone the following year between a supervisor and a ticket agent using that name!
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It's to bad they don't have some kind of service there now.
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There are small charter companies that will do this service in a small airplane, but think a couple thousand dollars if you want to do this. ($650/hr to charter a single engine plane). These guys would do it for you.
https://www.skylineflight.com/ |
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Every summer for the past 26 years, we have been flying up from Arlington, VA to Winnipesaukee to stay on Sandy Island. The docks for the camp boat are on the opposite side of Winni, in Mirror Lake, so we used Laconia only once, when water taxi service from Fay's Boathouse direct to the island was available and affordable. Moultonboro Airpark is fairly convenient to the Sandy dock, so that's what we use, with Laconia as a bad-weather backup. For the first 10 years or so, we used Lakes Region Airpark, and I am still sad about it being closed as it embodied so much of the soul of Winnipesaukee, with bright blue water all around, a seaplane dock, and the legacy of the Horn family.
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Only $1365 from Manchester. Flight time is 24 minutes. Without traffic I can get there in 50 minutes or so so what I’ll need to decide is that extra 26 minutes saved worth the money :) Sent from my iPhone using Winnipesaukee Forum mobile app |
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Is that one way or round trip? Sent from my iPhone using Winnipesaukee Forum mobile app |
You are paying for the airplane to get to you and go back to its base too. Manchester to Laconia is a drive, no brainer. LI to Laconia would probably be a 5 or 6 hour drive no traffic. In that plane it would be about an hour.
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Now if I can just scrape the $$ together to buy one.... |
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We're just not talking about saving $$ here. Some like to fly, some like to boat and some like... |
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Some like both, like I do. Lol. Sent from my iPhone using Winnipesaukee Forum mobile app |
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If it floats, flies or ...
it's cheaper to rent! |
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I would love to but I am a diabetic Sent from my iPhone using Winnipesaukee Forum mobile app |
In the 80’s my Dad had a Cessna 172 and used to fly from Beverly, MA up to Moultonboro when I was vacationing. At one point a friend of his got his instructor’s ticket and wanted to take his first student gratis before he started charging and asked me if I was interested. Dad offered his plane gratis. I turned it down because, at that time, if the leaves were ruffling in the trees it was too turbulent for me. BIG MISTAKE. A couple of years later Dad had a heart attack and gave up his license/sold his plane. He loved flying and would have loved to sit in the right seat of his plane while I flew.
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Great to know. Thx. Blood sugar under control for years. Sent from my iPhone using Winnipesaukee Forum mobile app |
Or, you can give the gift of flying lessons to a close relative. My wife took a few lessons to build comfort level. If something happened to me, she could get talked down OK. I gave my daughter flying lessons as a graduation present. I stopped flying, but it was still a great joy to sit in the right seat while she drove.
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