10/21, Saturday. Rain. 11-3. Port of Portland organized this event. I went to
Hillsboro Airport ~1:30pm. I'm familiar with the terminal building: flew in and out on Intel shuttle many times, and rent cars a few times. Didn't know anything about the rest of the airport. Today, despite of rain, I saw quite a few people, lots of kids. Photo ops and costumes. There's a 2-seater plane that you can climb in and move whatever you can without power. There's a mobile X-ray beast (rather big) that operated by the Homeland Security.
I Took the last bus tour of the air field. The guide pointed out various buildings and we tried to look through the foggy windows. Didn't know that the first runway was put in the 1920's. Fuel tanks are both underground and above on high. You can fly international to/from here: there's a Homeland Security office. Hillsboro has the largest air training school in US. The most interesting is going into
Global Aviation's hangers. They are one of the two
Fixed Base Operators here. Their office has a lovely
Chihuly chandelier. The hangers are spacious and clean. Saw a couple of people working.
10/21, Saturday. Rain. 11-3. Port of Portland organized this event. I went to Hillsboro Airport ~1:30pm. I'm familiar with the terminal building: flew in and out on Intel shuttle many times, and rent cars a few times. Didn't know anything about the rest of the airport. Today, despite of rain, I saw quite a few people, lots of kids. Photo ops and costumes. There's a 2-seater plane that you can climb in and move whatever you can without power. There's a mobile X-ray beast (rather big) that operated by the Homeland Security. 
I Took the last bus tour of the air field. The guide pointed out various buildings and we tried to look through the foggy windows. Didn't know that the first runway was put in the 1920's. Fuel tanks are both underground and above on high. You can fly international to/from here: there's a Homeland Security office. Hillsboro has the largest air training school in US. The most interesting is going into Global Aviation's hangers. They are one of the two Fixed Base Operators here. Their office has a lovely Chihuly chandelier. The hangers are spacious and clean. Saw a couple of people working.
