Celebrating Aeroplanes, Trains and Automobiles

By General Aviation News Staff · October 25, 2018 ·

Story and Photos By LISA F. BENTSON

On Aug. 25, 2018, the communities of Spanish Fork and Springville, Utah, came together at Spanish Fork Airport (KSPK, formerly U77) to celebrate Aeroplanes, Trains and Automobiles.

The annual event brought in about 5,000 folks, according to Airport Manager Cris Child.

The next event is already scheduled for Aug. 24, 2019.

The Flying Cowboys, brothers Mike and Mark Patey along with Jason Sneed, impress the crowds with their formation fly-by.

Mike Patey, in Draco, the PT6 powered bush plane, leads the formation flight followed by Mark Patey and Jason Sneed in their Carbon Cubs.

A powered parachute does a low-level fly by. (Photo by Lisa Bentson)

Plane friends Scott Torneten (PIC) and Dave Adams enjoy the moment. Later they competed in the Sport Air Racing League Mt. Timpanogos Race. In the Sprint Class, Dave slipped past Scott in his own Long EZ to take first place.

Plane admiration: With so many planes to see, memories were captured by this fan.

Planes, planes, and more planes came to the fly-in and to participate in the Mount Timpanogos Sport Air Racing League air race.

Fans admire this US Army AH-64 Apache helicopter.

After showing off their aircraft to the community, pilots of the AH-64 Apache helicopter take off from the taxiway of the Spanish Fork airport.

A race car whips a 360 around a pylon next to Draco with the goal of completing the course in the shortest time.

Autocross racing was organized by the Intermountian Region chapter of the Porsche Club of America.

Free train rides were provided by this happy engineer.

Train enthusiasts got a chance to tour the airport and see classic cars, race cars, race planes, classic planes and much, much more.

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