bstratt
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A group of us are hoping to make Lake Lawn, WI, this Sunday for brunch as long as the weather gods cooperate. Rain out date will be the following Sunday. More details will follow as weather forecasts firm up.
bstratt said:A group of us are hoping to make Lake Lawn, WI, this Sunday for brunch as long as the weather gods cooperate. Rain out date will be the following Sunday. More details will follow as weather forecasts firm up.
bstratt said:Hmmm, long range forecast for Sunday is not looking good. Low ceilings - 500ft at 10:00am and reduced visibility in mist.
http://usairnet.com/cgi-bin/launch/code.cgi?sta=KDPA&model=avn&state=IL&Submit=Get+Forecast
Bummer!
bbchien said:How about 11:30?
Walworth County Resort Closes After 132 Years
Down Economy Forced Lake Lawn Resort Into Foreclosure
DELAVAN, Wis. -- The Lake Lawn Resort, a Walworth County vacation destination for more than 100 years, has closed.
The troubled economy forced the resort into foreclosure.
General manager Pete Zellmer said it's difficult to imagine such a staple of Delavan closing its doors after 132 years in business.
"It's the longest continually run resort in Wisconsin," Zellmer said.
I hope whoever buys the property keeps it open to the public. It was just a runway with no ground facilities at all. If you landed there, chances are good you were going to the resort.I hope that whoever buys the property will keep the airport open - And maintain it better, too!
I hope whoever buys the property keeps it open to the public. It was just a runway with no ground facilities at all. If you landed there, chances are good you were going to the resort.
I remember it! But it was hardly big enough, as I recall, to even function as a decent terminal building... at least so it seemed from the outside.There was a building adjacent to the ramp, but it was always locked.
I always wondered how they managed to get an NDB approach into that field. Someone really cared about it for a while anyway. Hopefully the resort will be reopened eventually under new ownership.With some renovation, they could have a really nice little airport there.
I always wondered how they managed to get an NDB approach into that field. Someone really cared about it for a while anyway. Hopefully the resort will be reopened eventually under new ownership.
132 years and they have to close because of this recession... after surviving the Great Depression. Sigh.
Edit: now I see it's an RNAV (GPS) approach, actually one each way. Is my memory playing tricks on me? It's been over 5 years since I was there so it could be.
BTW, this old thread brings back memories since that was apparently the last meetup at C59 that I was at.
I was just trying to figure out why I wasn't there. I flew to Milwaukee the night before for my fraternity's Founder's Day celebration. Maybe I was just tired? Too bad, though, since my trucking trainee at the time was a big-time aviation enthusiast - He had been a student pilot, and soloed, but then crashed (many years ago) and didn't finish. I flew with him about 4 times while he was with me, I'm sure he'd have loved to go to Lake Lawn.
Maybe we had to get on the road.
Or you could check the thread title.I'd have to check my logbooks, but pretty sure this was early 2005, or late 2004.
Wow - I had no idea they got GPS approaches! They were probably on the list of all the NDB approaches that were getting axed and got GPS approaches to replace the NDB one.
So, the change over 5 years is probably not your memory, but the winds of change.
EDIT: Searching airnav.com using archive.org, in February of 2005 there were both the 2 GPS approaches and the NDB. The NDB approach disappeared sometime between August 2006 and August 2007.
Didn't Lake Lawn have the NDB on the airport? I remember hearing pilots using the Lake Lawn NDB for practice and later asking when it had been turned off.
From the Airnav page for C59:
NDB name Hdg/Dist Freq Var ID
LAKE LAWN 185/3.9 404 00W LVV .-.. ...- ...-
I'd have to check my logbooks, but pretty sure this was early 2005, or late 2004.
I was meeting with a client in Delevan, WI today, and decided to drive past Lake Lawn (C59), and what do I see but this unfortunate bird sitting off the run-up area of runway 18. It looks like it's been there a while, but it doesn't appear in the AOPA accident database. Any guess on the type?
I have to check my calendar but I should be able to make it.
You have a time machine?
The resort closed in 2010, but a new investor group bought it in 2011, rehabbed it, and reopened it. Their website says absolutely nothing about the airport, which is odd.Those pictures really bring tears to my eyes... anyone know the current status of the resort? As bad as the runway looks, at least the airport is still listed as open on the sectional (I haven't checked for NOTAMs though, so it might be closed).