1. Hotel is the Radisson next to the airport. We have an easy group reservations link from our contact Heather. Group name “Cessna 180-185 Flight Club”, rate $129, breakfast included. 1645 N. Newport Road, 80916, 719-597-7000.
2. Radisson hotel group reservations link:  https://www.choicehotels.com/reservations/groups/JG69E8
3. Friday arrivals:
     -  FBO:  JetCenter 719-591-2288 (Ian) -  see paragraphs below for more detail.  
     -  The airport is kCOS - Colorado Springs or “Pete Field”. The airport is Class C airspace, don’t let that bother you it’s very straightforward: just come up on Approach 124.0 about 25 miles out. The airport is joint-use with the Peterson Space Force Base … and not too many airliners.
4. Dinner on Friday evening TBD - maybe Paravacini’s?
5. Breakfast fly-out Saturday morning, we will attend the monthly breakfast organized by club member Orlo Ellison. It’s at CO18 Chaparral, and it’s always a great breakfast. REMINDER: rwy 17/35 WEST patterns, rwy 11/29 NORTH patterns - regardless of what Foreflight/Airnav say. Frequency 122.9 at Chaparral.
6. We will visit the museum (worldwariiaviation.org if you’d like a preview) on Saturday afternoon. It’s on the airport, in the northwest corner.
7. Those who don’t wish to visit the museum, please let me know, so that if needed we can rent a group car or van. Folks can visit downtown, Garden of the Gods, US Air Force Academy, Trolley museum, etc.
8. Dinner Saturday (May 2, 6pm, “Steven”, 10 people for now) at Steve Kanatzar’s Airplane Restaurant (a genuine KC-97 is on campus).
9. Sunday morning departures and thanks for coming!
10. Again, the Fly-in hotel is the Radisson right next to the airport, and it’s right next to the Airplane Restaurant and a (kinda long) walk from the FBO. A link for reservations is above.

FBO: (we did try to use Cutter, long story) JETCENTER is our FBO, Ian is our contact. 719-591-2288 or A2G 130.57, you can give them a call 20 minutes out if you like.

• Fuel is a ridiculous $9.05, so you might consider getting fuel at kFLY Meadow Lake, perhaps on the way back from Breakfast on Saturday, kFLY fuel was $5.48 on 4/03.
• JetCenter has a shuttle over to the Radisson, & rental cars are available at the FBO from GoRental.
• Tie Downs: $8/night, and Ian has waived this fee for your entire stay if you purchase “any fuel”. (At Cutter we thought we’d need tie down kits. This should not be needed at JetCenter [though I always have mine in the airplane.])
• Hangars: $340/night at JetCenter. Sigh. This might be a reason to go back to Cutter next door! - if you wish a hangar, Calvin quoted me $85/night at Cutter, call 719-591-2065 (UNICOM 131.0)

MUSEUM: you will find the museum truly impressive. Your spouse will be interested in all the history we display, if not the aircraft themselves. 29 aircraft at last count, most are flying and of WWII vintage. We have the one and only Brewster built Corsair left intact on the planet, it’s an F3A-1, and we fly it. We have a recently completed Curtiss SB2C-1 Helldiver. We’re rebuilding two P-40s. We have one of the two B-25s that flew off the Ranger while underway in 1992 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Doolittle Raid. We have the only remaining Waco JYM, and Lindbergh personally flew ours! Tour will include a first class WWII airplane restoration facility. But wait, there’s more! and there is more, it’s a great facility with great, patriotic aviation people. I’m only a little biased since I am a docent at this museum.

Monetary expectations: FBO tie-down $8/night waived with fuel, pay the FBO. Museum fee is less than $20/person. Hospitality and needed car rental, if needed I will “pass the hat”. At the Chaparral breakfast Orlo sets out a donation jar. Dinners are “dutch".

Other notes:
(1) Calendar note: Sun-n-Fun is April 14-19.  
(2) Where is Jim’s airplane? My 180 is at Meadow Lake. It’s getting a new engine. Don’t worry about me, my engine was at Double!! TBO. Walt has graciously offered to fly me up to Chaparral on Saturday.
(3) Heather is granting us a hospitality room (bring your own booze! yay!) from 2pm Friday through the weekend for the cleaning fee of $25. Since I’m not staying at the hotel I’ll give the key to one of you folks who are coming. 
(4) The Radisson Hotel has a restaurant, the CAVU Restaurant! I did not know this, as I’ve never stayed there. It's open for breakfast 6-10am (buffet included in room rate) and from 5-10pm for dinner. She wants us to come Friday night for dinner. Hmm. No geographic variety if we do that, because Saturday night we’re at the Airplane Restaurant mere feet away from the hotel. SO … if you see this note, please let me know what you think: CAVU or go to a downtown restaurant somewhere on Friday night? CAVU would be relatively quiet. If it’s all about the company for you, as it is for me, and you don’t care where you go as long as the food is good, CAVU might be just fine.