Aircraft Operations
The airfield is officially known as the "Orlampa Inc. Airport" and uses the airport identifier "FA08." The field sits at an estimated elevation of 129 feet (42 meters). It is designated as private use only and special permission is needed to land there. The field is generally closed to all non-company traffic. The airfield consists of two turf runways: runway 4/22 (5090 x 125 ft. / 1551 x 38 m) and runway 14/32 (2500 x 100 ft. / 762 x 30 m). The airfield appears as "Orlampa" on the Jacksonville sectional chart.
Waldo Wright's Flying Service offers airplane rides for sale from the Fantasy of Flight field and operates a Boeing PT-17 Stearman and a New Standard D-25 from the Fantasy of Flight collection. The Boeing Stearman is used for 30 minute long 'hands-on experience' flights, in which the customer takes control of the aircraft at some point during the flight. The New Standard D-25 is used for 15 minute Barnstorming flights, in which up to four customers sit in the forward open cockpit of the aircraft as a qualified pilot flies the aircraft.
Also operating daily (weather permitting) is Fantasy of Flight's "Aircraft of the Day" demonstration. Visitors can observe a flying demonstration by one of the attractions' many flyable aircraft. The choice of aircraft is subject to both pilot and aircraft availability as well as prevailing flying conditions.
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“It may seem strange that any road through such a wilderness should be passable, even in winter, when the snow is three or four feet deep, but at that season, wherever lumbering operations are actively carried on, teams are continually passing on the single track, and it becomes as smooth almost as a railway.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)