It’s been a long sixteen months at the CAF SoCal hangar in Camarillo (remember, I’m still on Staff there for the 8th year as Finance Officer) but we’re slowly creeping back to normal.
Our planes were all mothballed and our museum closed. We got a lot of maintenance work done, on both the facilities and the aircraft, but it’s time to get back to our mission.
The museum is open three days a week instead of six, but we’re getting some decent visitor traffic on those three days as word spreads of our soft re-opening.
We’ve had our first aircraft rides and have more being booked for the near future.
The Camarillo Wings Association will be moving ahead with the Wings Over Camarillo airshow on August 21st and 22nd. We’ll be flying our PBJ bomber, F6F Hellcat, Spitfire, and Zero. Plus all of our other aircraft and museum and PX (and the beer garden) will be on static display down at our hangars at the west end of the ramp, along with the STEM pavilion being in our “new” hangars.
(Clickenate to embiggenate!)
From left to right: The aforementioned “new” hangars, PBJ (gray bomber), F6F Hellcat (dark blue fighter), someone’s Cessna (white plane behind the F6F), YAK-3 (gray/blue camouflage fighter), AN-2 (huge yellow biplane), C-46 (silver cargo plane), MIG-17 (red jet), SNJ (yellow trainer), jeep & trailer.
We Love The Stars Too Fondly 
A lot of our attractions are on pre-booked timed tickets only. The idea is to limit the numbers in the attraction, even though some people will stay one hour, others will stay three, it means there’s never too many and a good chance to stay socially distanced. One-way systems are also the norm, especially for indoor exhibits.
I went past Stonehenge yesterday, and even they were on pre-booked tickets. They had a severe security guard and drop-down barrier to prevent people coming in because they were passing!
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