"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
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Probably Arlington or Copper State, although neither approaches the size
of
SnF... There simply are not as many aircraft on the West Coast as on the
East Coast.

???

I thought Arizona and California alone had a huge number of aircraft?
Surely enough to organize a Sun N Fun-type affair?

Oh well. I suppose those danged big hills out west would severely limit
attendance from us flat-landers. I know they have kept us from visiting
friends and family out on the Left Coast.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"


There are lots of aircraft out west, but not as many as on the East Coast,
and the distances between population centers are larger too.

One way to look at it is to draw a 750 NM circle around your aviation event
of choice and count the number of aircraft within that circle. That's
probably your target audience. Sure, you'll get some aircraft from outside
that circle if the event is good enough, but 750 NM is a pretty good trip
for most of the Cessna/Piper single crowd, which probably includes well over
50% of light aircraft owners.

Using this criteria, Oshkosh has a draw that extends all the way to the East
coast, darned close to the Gulf of Mexico, through the mid west, and into
portions of Texas. SnF covers the entire Southeast, into Texas (or at least
close), into the midwest, and up the East coast almost to DC. For both
shows, there are a lot of light aircraft within a day's flight.

KB