E tu, Airport Family Fun Day?
Sedona Airport announced this week that this year’s Airport Family Fun Day, planned for October, is one of the latest event cancellations of the COVID-19 health crisis.
Pam Fazzini, president of the Sedona-Oak Creek Airport Authority, said that the airport’s largest annual event of the year would be on hold until “a time when we all feel safe participating in a large gathering,”
Fazzini said she and other planners had been working on the event for months.
“We have no way of knowing what conditions will prevail in October or what regulations will be in place, but it has come to that ‘go or no go’ point in the planning process; we had to make a decision. We believe the decision to cancel Airport Day this year is in the best interest of the community and certainly in the best interest of our employees, who have been showing up to work every day to keep the airport, deemed an essential business, open, operating safely and serving the public.”
On Airport Day, the community is invited up onto Airport Mesa for a close-up experience with classic aircraft, a classic car show and lots of aviation-related booths and activities. In past Airport Days, special aircraft have flown in from distant airports, such as last year’s World War II-era B-25 bomber, the “Executive Sweet.” There have also been opportunities for event-goers to get up into the air in some of the aircraft.
“Of course, we are all disappointed that we will miss this opportunity to invite the public to Sedona Airport to engage with aviators, check out aircraft and to have some fun. The planning will continue, of course, but for a future, still-to-be determined date when we can safely sponsor the event,” Fazzini said.
