Good fuel stop on the way to Oshkosh

[Seneca Pilot]

Hi,
I'll be flying to Oshkosh from the Washington, DC area this year. Two
years ago, I made a fuel stop at an airport that had a special deal
during the AirVenture event. I think the airport was just south of
Chicago. Does anyone know of a cheap place to refuel on the way to
Oshkosh?
Thanks!

--Max
CPASEL-IA soon to be AMEL

[Darrel Toepfer]

Seneca Pilot wrote:
> Hi,
> I'll be flying to Oshkosh from the Washington, DC area this year. Two
> years ago, I made a fuel stop at an airport that had a special deal
> during the AirVenture event. I think the airport was just south of
> Chicago. Does anyone know of a cheap place to refuel on the way to
> Oshkosh?
> Thanks!

http://www.airnav.com

Lists fuel prices, as updated by pilots who purchased it...

[Bill J]

KOXI is great!

Seneca Pilot wrote:
> Hi,
> I'll be flying to Oshkosh from the Washington, DC area this year. Two
> years ago, I made a fuel stop at an airport that had a special deal
> during the AirVenture event. I think the airport was just south of
> Chicago. Does anyone know of a cheap place to refuel on the way to
> Oshkosh?
> Thanks!
>
> --Max
> CPASEL-IA soon to be AMEL

[Jim Weir]

Would it not have been clever for him to tell us what grade of fuel he needs?

Jim
Jim Weir (A&P/IA, CFI, & other good alphabet soup)
VP Eng RST Pres. Cyberchapter EAA Tech. Counselor
http://www.rst-engr.com

[Rip]

Jim, interesting point! Aside from the avgas/mogas point, our local FSDO
(New England) believes that 80/87 avgas is no longer manufactured, at
all. If you find some (as I have in Georgia and North Carolina), it's
"too old to be useable". Does anyone know if 80/87 is still manufactured
and distributed?

Jim Weir wrote:
> Would it not have been clever for him to tell us what grade of fuel he needs?
>
> Jim
> Jim Weir (A&P/IA, CFI, & other good alphabet soup)
> VP Eng RST Pres. Cyberchapter EAA Tech. Counselor
> http://www.rst-engr.com

[Jim Weir]

Your FBO needs to go to www.airnav.com and search fuels. There are 53 airports
in this country selling 80, 9 of them in New England.

Your FBO is just too lazy or too indifferent to the customer to find a source
for 80.

Jim



Rip >
shared these priceless pearls of wisdom:


Does anyone know if 80/87 is still manufactured
->and distributed?

Jim Weir (A&P/IA, CFI, & other good alphabet soup)
VP Eng RST Pres. Cyberchapter EAA Tech. Counselor
http://www.rst-engr.com

[Vassilii Khachaturov]

> I'll be flying to Oshkosh from the Washington, DC area this year. Two
> years ago, I made a fuel stop at an airport that had a special deal
> during the AirVenture event. I think the airport was just south of
> Chicago. Does anyone know of a cheap place to refuel on the way to
> Oshkosh?

Last year I had good deals at KFNT, they also gave us loads of
souvenirs - just because we mentioned we're on the way to OSH. If you
have to spend the night there, don't accept the FBO rec., rather take
the inn pretty much across the highway (slightly to the right) from
the airport. Cheaper and cleaner.