TEMPORARY RUNWAY CLOSURE FOR CONSTRUCTION ACTIVITY AT THE SAN CARLOS AIRPORT The San Carlos Airport runway and taxiways will be temporarily closed to all flight operations for construction work associated with South Bayside System Authority’s (SBSA) new sewer line. The airport will be closed during the period shown below: • Tuesday, September 11th from 10:00 [...]

The FAA is scheduled to flight check the VASIs on Friday Aug. 10th. We can expect multiple passes at various altitudes, perhaps by their Learjet, at unexpected times.

To the General Aviation Community, Click here: MBNMS Pilot Outreach Letter_Jul2012 for a 1-page letter (PDF format) from the superintendent of the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary that highlights some current and upcoming changes that the FAA is making to the Los Angeles and San Francisco sectional and terminal area charts. The charts will display [...]

Flyabout Synopsis: Flyabout tells the autobiographical story of Monika Petrillo’s journey piloting a small single-engine airplane around the continent of Australia. Her father, a pilot with limited experience himself, is riding shotgun. As the only woman pilot in a group of eleven people, Monika sets out to experience the true freedom of flight above one [...]

Runway and Taxiway Closures The San Carlos Airport will be temporarily closed to all flight operations during the dates and times shown below as a result of the Vertical Challenge Helicopter Event: NO FLIGHT OPERATIONS Friday, June 15th from 3pm until 4pm Friday, June 15th from 8pm until 8:50pm Saturday, June 16th from 10am until [...]

Attendance is limited to the first 200 people to RSVP. Please reserve your seat by clicking here and filling out the form. What: Learn about the future of AVGAS Where: Hiller Aviation Museum, San Carlos, CA When: Friday, June 29, 2012 at 10:00 AM Special Guest: Lars Hjelmberg, Founder and CEO of Hjelmco Oil Supporters: [...]

During the Presidential TFR on May 24, 2012, Acting Airports Manager Jim Wadleigh and staff organized a Foreign Object Debris walk at San Carlos Airport. SCAPA thanks all participants including Hans Plesman from San Carlos Aviation and Supply who provided four dozen Krispy Kreme donuts. thanks to Chris St. Peter for the photos

Message from the KSQL Air Traffic Manager While the airport community eagerly awaits the annual return of Hiller Aviation Museum’s Vertical Challenge, many people are behind the scenes are preparing the environment for the most efficient transition from operational-airport to show-ready and back again with minimal disruption to the regular users of the airport. One [...]

Saturday, May 19th is International Learn to Fly Day, and San Carlos Flight Center is celebrating with an open house. Click here for details. Forward this invitation to your friends, family, co-workers, your regular passengers, and anyone else who’s ever wondered what it takes to fly. San Carlos Learn to Fly Day activities start at [...]

SCAPA is happy to welcome our newest member, Hans P. Plesman, proprietor of San Carlos Aviation & Supply, LLC. Hans assumed operation of the pilot shop, located in the terminal at KSQL, in September 2011. Mrs. Joyce Maganini the previous owner of the store for more than 25 years, helped at the store until the [...]

TEMPORARY RUNWAY CLOSURE FOR CONSTRUCTION ACTIVITY AT THE SAN CARLOS AIRPORT The San Carlos Airport runway and taxiways will be temporarily closed to all flight operations, for the emergency repair of South Bayside System Authority’s (SBSA) sewer line that runs under the west side of the airport, during the periods shown below: Friday night, April [...]

From SCAPA member Ettore Leale: The San Carlos airport community is invited to attend The Harvard Club of San Francisco’s May 1st event featuring Einar Enevoldson of The Perlan Project. The Perlan Project http://perlanproject.org is dedicated to building and flying a manned research glider to 90,000 feet in altitude, or “near space”, to study what [...]

San Carlos Airport Association Annual General Membership Meeting Wed. April 25, 2012 at 7:00 PM at Hiller Museum Please join us at the next SCAPA General Membership Meeting on Wed. April 25, 2012 at 7:00 PM at the Hiller Museum. We are very pleased to announce that Ed Rosiak, President of the California Pilots Association [...]

A combined EAA Chapter 639 and Half Moon Bay Pilots Association Meeting will be held on Wed. April 11th at 7:00pm at the 3 Zero Cafe. (As always, 2nd Wed. of each month at 7:00pm). We will use the meeting to plan and prepare for Dream Machines on April 28th and April 29th. Please come [...]

The Half Moon Bay Pilots Association is recruiting for aviation knowledgeable volunteers for Dream Machines on April 28 and 29. Their most pressing need is people to assist in ground control of visiting aircraft. This actually is both fun and interesting and comes with a free lunch and free entry. One or both days are [...]