Has anyone been to the 94th Aero Squadron? I’ve been to the one that used to be in San Diego. Last time was in the '80s. And I’ve been to the one at Van Nuys. The last time I was disappointed because they were out of escargots. Good prime rib and French onion soup. I like the design, and the fake airplanes, and the ducks and geese. And watching airplanes take off and land from the adjacent runway.
Best Fing onion soup ever!
Hmm, weird. I didn’t even realize it was a chain. Weirder still is their web site (http://www.the94thaerosquadron.com/) lists four locations, but doesn’t include San Diego. I know that one’s still there, in Kearny Mesa, right across from Montgomery Field.
Since it wasn’t on their website, I’d assumed it was closed. But there it is.
I’ve never even heard of the place.
Van Nuys airport area has gotten so much more built-up over the years! When I was taking lessons there (and I was also in the Van Nuys squadron of Civil Air Patrol), most of the area on Roscoe Av. by the airport was just open empty fields. Now it’s all business places.
You may be interested in seeing One-Six Right.
I get to the Van Nuys location once or twice a year.
It’s not as busy as it was back in the late 70’s. I can’t recall the last time I saw the downstairs bar open.
I’ve eaten at Van Nuys. I don’t remember much about the food, I mostly remember being surprised at how many 1-2 seater jets took off. I thought general aviation was all propellers, can you actually get ex-military jets, or civilian small jets?
Yes, General Aviation, or ‘GA’, includes such aircraft.
If you’re interested, there’s the recent The Great Ongoing General Aviation Thread.
I might indeed. Where can I find it?
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One Six Right explores common misconceptions about general aviation airports, which are often criticized for noise pollution and viewed as exclusive playgrounds for the rich. The film creates an awareness of the threat to these community airports through staggering statistics of airports that no longer exist, and the rapid rate at which they are continuing to close: one per week in the U.S. These smaller and often forgotten airports are the foundation of the aviation industry, contributing to global commerce and the breeding ground of the pilots of tomorrow.
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Johnny L. A., did you notice my recent post in another nearby thread about sky parks, those little airports built into the middle of a residential neighborhood where the houses have huge garages for people to keep their airplanes in, and to get flying, they just drive their plane down the street to the runway . . . I surmised that those little airports will probably get shut down as more development grows up around them.
Van Nuys has grown too big probably to be considered a little community airport any more. Small jets land and take off there too now – that didn’t used to be the case. Agua Dulce used to be a little landing strip WAY out in the back country boondocks. Now it’s all built up around there. We had a Civil Air Patrol camp-out there once, by the side of the runway.
ETA: I think Amelia Earhart was home-ported at Lockheed Airport, which is what is now Hollywood-Burbank (Bob Hope) Airport. In the early 1960’s, an incoming plane crashed on the gym field at Pacoima Junior High School. You could still see where they patched the hole in the asphalt.
Sorry, I guess the above is kind of a hijack. (I know, bad turn of phrase for this thread.) This thread was about a restaurant, wasn’t it?
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I landed at one of those residential strips a month or so ago. As for closings, they closed the municipal airport here a couple of years ago. I recall residents are always trying to close down Santa Monica.
But yeah, the restaurant. I’ll have to get to the one in San Diego again, if I ever go down to visit my sister.
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Hm. No escargots at the VNY location. The one at MYF has them though.
I actually have an escargot dish here. Also a can of snails and a stack of shells. (Not that I need the shells if I have a dish.) I should try making them sometime.
Your backyard if full of escargot, so you can have all you want. I’ve seen instruction for how to prepare them. Basically, you collect a few and put them in a bed of cornmeal for a week or so. After they’ve eaten cornmeal for a week, there’s nothing else left inside of them (all the wild weeds they were eating are out by then). Then they’re ready for the cooking.
Hey, Johnny L. A., apropos of Runway 16, here’s an off-topic post I just spotted in another thread that mentions a Runway 16, but the thread is really more about Sylvester and Tweety:
Before they renamed Airport Radar Service Areas to Class C airspace, there was a joke that one was going to be set up in central Florida. It would have been called Kissimmee ARSA.
There used to be one in Denver, just on the other side of Stapleton Airport. As a kid, it was pretty cool to listen in to ATC on the headphones in every booth.
I rode past the VNY 94th today on my Sunday AM bicycle ride.
They have a Sunday brunch.
Maybe we should consider a VNY dopefest.
You tease me!
(Maybe the end of next July or August?)
Maybe the San Diego one is some kind of renegade location, like the Submarina in Tierrasanta.
I thought San Diego was the original (previously Boom Trenchards) off Montgomery Field.
As for the Submarina, is the Sports Arena branch closed?
[I used to to holiday buffets at Trenchard’s and the Squadron when I was growing up. Always awesome stuff! It’s been years since I was at either one.]
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