Montblack wrote:

("Phil Sisson, Litchfield Aerobatic Club" wrote)

Nope, it still shows movies every night in the summer.......... $2 a
head and kids still get in free. Sound is better now. they use the
car stereo radio and transmit a low power radio signal all over the
area...

You can actually listen to the movie about a five blocks away....



Very nice looking town. Is your airport safe from development intrests?


Montblack

We've bought a lot of real estate around it which is being farmed now. I
think it will be good for fifty years. That is not really too far out in
the future. There is plenty of space for housing to build on other sides
of town which they seem to be doing. There is not really much growth
here, it is a farm town. Corn fields in all directions....
The town was 7000 population in 1900 and today it is a whopping 6900.
In reality, it is probably about 12000 because many people have move 1/2
mile or so to the edges of town, Most of the industry has left and went
to Mexico and China. It is a bedroom community for STL (50 mi) and
Springfield (40 mi). We had a Roller Derby Skate plant here that
employed 600, an International Paper plant that employed 300, Coca Cola
Bottling that employed 40, Pepsi Cola that employed 15 or 20, A
condensed milk plant that employed 50 , they are all gone now. We have
an Echlin plant that has about 2 or 3 hundred, soon to leave and go to
Mexico. We do have a company that makes farm tractor attachments. They
seem to be growing.
The real estate around the airport is reserved for business ventures, if
anyone ever becomes interested. Actually there is a lot of it and it
would be a great place for aviation related business's, do to our
location. Wick's is 31 miles straight south through the country roads.
A.E.R.O. is about 35 miles down the interstate. A Garrett center is at
Springfield. Central Airparts has an operation on the field called
Central Air Service.Their junk yard is about 15 miles away. And by the
way, any one coming through here to Oshkosh and needing some used parts,
could have Bob at Central Air Parts, get them to be waiting on the way
back home...
Hangars rent here for $58 (the old ones chain lift doors ) $75 (the
newer ones concrete floors and 40' electric doors) and soon to be ten
new ones for $100 Concrete floors and 42' electric doors....... Right
now there is a waiting list but the ten new hangars should reduce this
down to almost nothing. If not we will build ten more.

Phil at Litchfield

"Real Pilots don't snivel and snitch to the FED's about other pilots"


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