COPPERSTATE Fly-In

Casa Grande, Arizona (KCGZ)
October 23-26, 2008

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Are you flying near Casa Grande Airport during
COPPERSTATE 2007?

 

NOTE: Airspace within 5 miles of CGZ will be controlled by a temporary FAA control tower. Check NOTAMS before you depart & listen to ATIS on 132.7 before you enter CGZ airspace. Click here to see the entire Official FAA NOTAM for the event.

 

The 35th Annual COPPERSTATE Regional EAA Fly-In will be held at the Casa Grande Municipal Airport (CGZ) from Thursday, October 25 through Sunday, October 28 of this year.

COPPERSTATE is expected to generate an unusually high volume of VFR traffic in the vicinity of CGZ. Since this airspace is routinely subject to intensive student training activity, the amount of VFR traffic concentrated in a relatively small area will be extremely high; consequently, pilots are urged to exercise extreme caution when conducting operations in this area.

There will be a temporary FAA tower in operation during daylight hours at CGZ, from October 25th through October 28th, and the airport will be closed during hours of darkness. In addition to the normal requirements for operations at towered airports, pilots operating in the vicinity of CGZ will be expected to comply with Special Air Traffic Procedures, as published by NOTAM in conjunction with this event. Details on these procedures may be obtained from Flight Service and other sources of NOTAM information, or may be found online at the COPPERSTATE website, http://www.copperstate.org.

Due to the volume of VFR traffic, it is highly unlikely that tower controllers will approve practice ILS or other instrument approaches to CGZ during the event. It is anticipated that the FAA may take advantage of this respite in user activity to complete routine maintenance on the localizer and glideslope equipment.

We realize that some training operations may be affected by these restrictions, and we apologize for any inconvenience. However, we’d like to encourage those so affected to join us in celebrating and promoting aviation by attending this 35th annual COPPERSTATE Regional EAA Fly-In. We’ll have aviation exhibitors, aircraft demonstrations, Young Eagles flights, forums on wide ranging aviation topics, plus the largest display of antique, classic, homebuilt, ultralight, and factory built aircraft you’ll find anywhere in the southwest.