The annual Air Fair will begin at the Soldotna Airport from 8-11 and then end up in Kenai from noon-3 this Saturday, June 14.
Kenai Airport Manager Mary Bondurant spoke with us about the fair’s kickoff this year.
Bondurant: “The event kicks off at the Soldotna Airport at the Marc hanger from 8-11, the EAA will be cooking breakfast for the pilots that register for the poker run and also the public is welcome but the event kicks off there from 8-11, the pilots will register with us, pay a registration fee, recieve a free t-shirt, have free breakfast, and then fly around to at least 5 of 8 airports on the peninsula, pick up a ticket in a bucket, then fly back to Kenai by 2:30 Saturday afternoon, turn their tickets in and we will give them a poker hand and then they can possibly win a prize based on the highest hands and we have about 20 poker prizes. The afternoon event also in Kenai also includes a military appreciation event at 2 o’clock, the mayors of Soldotna and Kenai will read a proclamation declaring June 14 as Military Appreciation Day.”
She added that there will also be many vendors and Hobo Jim live for entertainment.
Bondurant said that because of the sequestration there will be no military aircraft however…
Bondurant: “But the commemorative air force, ghost fleet out of Anchorage is going to participate and they are going to be bringing down 5 aircraft.”
