Dear Vintage Mooney Flyers,

Welcome to our first Lake Tahoe, CA Fly-In scheduled for the weekend of June 14-15.  The Main Events are on Saturday as always, but this fly-in is special and we have informal things going on Friday evening and Sunday morning, encouraging people to spend the weekend.  If we get enough planes, we hope to make this our biggest fly-in ever.

Headlines: Mountain Flying Seminar, Maintaining our Mooneys presentation and Q&A, Modifying our Mooneys presentation and Q&A, Free BBQ Lunch, and more.

Thanks to Michael Golden of Mountain West Aviation and Tom & Mark Rouch of Top Gun Aviation, for co-hosting this fly-in in what we hope to be the largest gathering of Vintage Mooneys in the West this year.  As always, All Mooneys are welcome and even non-Mooneys.

Participants include:
  Mountain West Aviation
  Top Gun Aviation
  Lake Aero Styling & Repair (LASAR)
  Tom Meadows, CFI

Thanks to all of these great people and companies for helping to put together a truly unique Vintage Mooney Group fly-in with the usual Mooney Ramp hob-nobbin, cool seminars and Q&A, and a lot of fun things to do.

Schedule of Events

FRIDAY
Arrivals all day and informal dinner at 6:30pm at the Cantina, north on SR89 about 2.5 miles from the airfield.

SATURDAY

8:00am-10:30am: Arrivals

10:45: Presentation by Pete Wolak, Wayne Fischer & Lee Uecker from Mooney Airplane Company.  Our friends from Kerrville will be giving us a presentation on what's new at Mooney, what's on the forefront, and customer support.  There will be new Mooneys on the ramp also!

12:00: Luncheon Hosted by Mountain West Aviation & The TVL Association.  The TVL Association is an association of pilots, aircraft owners and aviators based at Lake Tahoe Airport.  They have graciously offered to participate financially in hosting our BBQ luncheon!  Thank you to the TVL Association!

1:00pm: Mountain Flying Seminar, presented by Tom Meadows, CFI.  Tom is a renowned mountain aviator, fellow Mooniac, with over 7,000 hours of PIC time, most of which has been in the Lake Tahoe area.  Tom conducts Mountain Flying Seminars on a regular basis.

2:00pm: A Highly Modified M20E by Michael Golden on Modifying your Mooney, the pros & cons and cost/benefit analysis of an owner with a highly modified 1974 E Model (LoPresti Speed Cowl, PowerFlow Tuned Exhaust, wing tip farings courtesy of Top Gun Aviation and more)  N7139V will be on the ramp accompanied by N9171V, Tom & Mark's highly modified '69 Effin' Jay.

2:15pm: Maintaining and Modifying Your Mooney presentations plus Q&A all day by Tom & Mark Rouch of Top Gun Aviation and Paul Loewen of LASAR.

Rest of the Day: Afterward, have some fun on the Lake!  There's hiking, biking, fishing, boating, golfing, parasailing, sightseeing, helicopter tours, gaming, the Tahoe Queen, shopping and more!  It's tough to go wrong in Tahoe.

Dinner will be informal on Saturday night.

SUNDAY

9:00am: Brunch tentatively set for Chase's at Lake Tahoe Airport overlooking the airfield, with a Birthday party celebration for Tom Rouch of Top Gun.

Flying to Lake Tahoe, CA (KTVL)
  Elev: 6264'
  Phone: 530-542-6180
  CTAF: 122.95
  WX-AWOS: 124.725, Phone 530-541-5739
  FSS: Reno 122.2, 122.25, or 866-281-2737
  RUNWAY: 18/36 8544x150'

Airport Information:  Runway Finder, Skyvector Airport Info or Airnav

Weather Information: Underground Weather or this cool new site AvnWx

Aircraft Parking Info:   Park where you see all of the Vintage Mooneys, by the south end of the field.

Area & Lodging Info:

Click Here for Everything you need to know about things to do in Lake Tahoe.

Here are some links to local places to stay overnight:
Horizon Hotel & Casino ($109 discount rate until May 27th, mention Mooney Fly-In), 800-648-3322
Lakeside Inn & Casino ($59 discount rate for VMG Fly-In), 800-624-7980
Super 8 ($62.10 King/Friday, $89.10 King/Saturday), 800-237-8882
Best Western Timber Cove $
Inn by the Lake $$$
Budget Inn Lake Tahoe $

Ground Transportation Info:

There are a few options for ground transportation.  The resorts have offered limited shuttle service to and from the airfield for this event.  Car Rentals are another option, and probably the best option for us all.  Blue Go offers shuttle service from the airfield to Stateline for $3.50 per person.  They also offer service back to the airfield from Stateline.  Bicycles are also available, upon request.  And for the "uber rich", HeliTahoe.  Reservations for rental cars can be made through Hertz, Enterprise or Mountain West Aviation.

Click Here for Hertz deal for this fly-in.

Register Here for this event!  We hope to make this the largest gathering of Mooneys in California this year.

Hope to see you in Lake Tahoe,
Michael Golden