After a three-year hiatus, the Rotary Club of Dunkirk-Fredonia will host its 56th Annual Fly-In Breakfast on Sunday, July 23 from 8 am – 12 noon at the Chautauqua County Airport in Dunkirk at 3389 Middle Road.
Rotary volunteers will serve breakfast in one of the hangars from 8 a.m. to noon or until supplies run out. The menu includes all-you-can-eat pancakes, scrambled eggs, sausage, coffee, decaf, juice, water, and milk. Tickets are available online at tinyurl.com/2023FIB and at the door.
Private aircraft pilots from New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and beyond come to the event each year to have their planes seen up close and personal by some 1,200 guests. Experimental and antique planes are usually among those displayed. Organizers for the event explained that visiting pilots get to eat for a fee, and the cost for local residents is only $10.00 for adults and $5.00 for children 12 and under.
An arts and crafts fair will be held in an adjacent hangar. Great Lakes Flight Center will offer discovery flights. These flights will cost $150 for a half hour and $250 for one hour. One individual will copilot the plane with a flight instructor with room for up to two additional passengers. The flight instructor will walk the guest through the steps to safely fly an aircraft while showing off the beauty of Lake Erie and Western New York.
Corporate sponsors for the event include Graf Realty, Brooks-TLC Hospital Network, DFT Communications and Lake Shore Savings Bank.