Omak Fly-In

Okanogan & Ferry County Chapter of Washington Pilots Association invite you to an impromptu Fly-In on Saturday, June 26th at 11:00am at the Omak Airport.  They hope to promote aviation in our community.  Miss Veedol, The Spirit of Wenatchee has confirmed they will be coming and have the plane on display.  Two Omak High School graduates will crew the Miss Veedol replica when it flies to the Omak Fly-In.  Lunch will be provided by donation.  

About the Historic Miss Veedol

Jessica Richardson, Pilot, and Tim Moomaw, Instructor Pilot will bring the single-engined Bellanca Skyrocket from its Rotary Hangar at Pangborn Memorial Airport to the Omak Airport for the fly-in. 

The iconic aircraft is an exact-as-possible replica of the 1930 Bellanca CH-400 that Clyde E. Pangborn and Hugh Herndon, Jr. flew from Misawa, Japan to East Wenatchee in October, 1931 to complete the first nonstop crossing of the Pacific Ocean.  The flight took 44 hours 13 minutes and landed on the former site of Fancher Field, now an upscale homeowner subdivision just east of the Columbia River.  For about two weeks, the world could talk of little else than the daring escapades of the two intrepid pilots.  Soon, though, the desperate economic situation of the early years of The Great Depression pushed the flight from the headlines.  In the annals of aviation history the Pangborn-Herndon flight became "The Greatest Story Never Told."

In an attempt to raise the profile of the 1931 event and especially the reputation of the two pioneering pilots, the Experimental Aviation Association Chapter 424 of Wenatchee, WA formed a nonprofit organization in 1998 to build the replica and celebrate this important historical aviation milestone.  The aircraft's first flight was in May, 2003.  Miss Veedol has crossed the USA and Canada in an effort to bring this exciting aviation story to the world.