I want to let everyone know about this year’s CRUFC Air Adventure Tour. This year we’re going to a place called Wendover, Utah.

Wendover straddles the border of Utah and Nevada at the western edge of the Great Salt Desert.

Wendover’s significance lies in its place in history. It was where the USAAF’s 509th Composite Group trained on their B-29s in preparation to drop the atomic bombs on Japan in World War II. By all accounts, there’s not much left there to celebrate the 509th’s stay at Wendover, but I thought it would make a great and historic place to visit, nonetheless.

I propose one of two routes. We can fly to the US border at Porthill, Idaho (just south of Creston, BC) to enter the US, then do our first overnight at Coeur d’Alene, ID. Then we fly south to Boise and cross the border into Nevada to land at Elko. It’s a short hop from there to Wendover to visit the airfield.

Then we can fly across the Great Salt Desert to Salt Lake City before turning north to track I-15 north through Utah, Idaho, and Montana. That puts us at the Canadian border just south of Lethbridge, and on to home.

The other route simply tracks down I-15 to Salt Lake and then goes out and back to Wendover from there. Then we’d backtrack to get home. Or, we could do the first proposed route in reverse and cross back into Canada at Porthill.

I’m pretty flexible with the route if it makes it more comfortable for some people to join in.

I’m planning to depart on Monday, June 13th, and return no later than the following Sunday. I plan to stay in hotels and rent cars as needed on the ground. The more people that come along, the cheaper the accommodations and rentals can be.

This will be a fantastic aviation adventure with some incredible scenery and great stories to tell afterward. I strongly encourage you to think seriously about flying along. I assure you that crossing the US/Canadian border is easy and painless, so don’t let that discourage you.

Please get in touch with me if you’re interested or have any questions.