We Fly: The RAF at 20 Years Into Moose Creek

We fly into a U.S. Forest Service strip in Idaho in a Kodiak 100 joining a work crew with the Recreational Aviation Foundation.

FLYING Staff

Thursday, November 30, 2023 at 10:25 AM ET

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Travis Tingle

One of the intersecting runways at the USFS airstrip at Moose Creek (1U1) dates back to the 1930s. [Stephen Yeates]

Key Takeaways:

The Recreational Aviation Foundation (RAF) has successfully defended and nurtured vital aviation airstrips for the past 20 years.
Over 11,000 RAF volunteers maintain and promote these precious aviation resources to the flying community.
The article features FLYING's editor-in-chief experiencing firsthand the camaraderie and satisfaction of participating in a work crew dedicated to these efforts.

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The airstrips that the Recreational Aviation Foundation (RAF) has defended and nurtured over the past 20 years remain viable because an urgent message was triggered to safeguard them for the future.

They represent some of our most precious resources in aviation, and a collection of more than 11,000 volunteers coordinated by the RAF have helped maintain them and promote them to the flying community.