Bancroft Flying Club, Flyin Pancake Breakfast, Bancroft's Jack Brown airport Bancroft Ontario.

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Bancroft flying club puts on a pancake breakfast at Jack Brown airport in Bancroft Ontario.

Nestled away in the middle of Ontario's cottage country is a little village called Bancroft. While being small in size, with a population of about 2000, it has a Mc Donald's, Tim Hortons, a Canadian Tire Store, a number of grocery and drug stores, a hospital, motels, restaurants, and it's own airport.

The Jack Brown Airport planes a major role in the community. For one thing it is used extensively by the Air Ambulance service, the Ministry of Health, Ministry of Natural Resources, Ontario Hydro and the O.P.P. It is also used by a great deal of American tourists and cottage owners, which one notices right away when looking at the aircraft tied down beside the runway, they all have "N" numbers!

The airport is also the home of Compton Airways, offering half hour to one hour aerial views of North Hastings sightseeing trips and charters to Toronto and Ottawa.

The driving force behind the airport was Jack Brown, who purchased the land and forming the Bancroft flying club over 20 years ago. Since 1963 the club has owned and maintained the 2200 foot, limestone screening covered runway, making it the only club owned airport in Canada that I am aware of.

The airport is home to a number of conventional aircraft and ultralights who share the hangar facilities, outside tie downs are also available, as are fuel, flight service, and telephone. This makes it an idea all year round stopping spot for students and pilots on cross country trips,  as the runway is plowed in the winter. It is also an ideal emergency landing field in case of bad weather, as was demonstrated several times during my two week stay at the airport, at least 3 times pilots landed and tied down as the weather turned nasty.

But the Jack Brown Airport is not just an "emergency" landing field, or commercial stop for aircraft and pilots. For the past 15 years, it has been the host of "Bancroft Flying Clubs Flyin Pancake breakfast."

Preparation for the flyin begins nearly a month before the event, with members in donating the use of their own equipment for grass cutting, tree pruning, etc. In addition the Town Parks department kicks in with the loan of picnic tables, which have to be moved in by the members and then returned.

This years "Pancake Breakfast" was held on July 8th. Nearly 300 people turned out to be served pancakes, by club members and their wives, or in some cases club members and their husbands!

Close to 100 aircraft flew in from all regions of Ontario, including a number of ultralight aircraft, making this years event even more successful than last year.

If you would like more information on the Bancroft Flying Club you can write them at the Bancroft Flying Club PO Box 696 Bancroft Ontario KOL ICO. The club telephone # is 613-332-1446, if you would like to talk to a club member you can contact Norm Jull the club secretary at 613-332-3674 or email him at normjull@sympatico.ca  

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