Airport

Sunday was a big day at Rancho Murieta Airport, with a display of vintage airplanes and an Experimental Aircraft Association Young Eagles event. While waiting for their ride in an airplane, Kylee, 7, and Jared Bettger, 10, along with their father, Bob Bettger, examined a 1944 Taylorcraft DCO-65 restored by Murieta pilot Dick Valladao. The Rancho Murieta EAA chapter holds several Young Eagles events each year, offering free rides to children between the ages of 7 and 17 to introduce them to aviation. Zac Bowers, who piloted one of the three planes that took children up into the clear blue skies, was once a Young Eagle himself. About 40 children participated in the event, organizers said.

Sacramento County will mitigate the loss of 13 acres of woodlands and grasslands due to a court-ordered tree-cutting project at Rancho Murieta Airport last year by purchasing 26 acres of similar property in the area, according to county Deputy Parks Director Jill Ritzman.  Read more »

A plane that disappeared Thursday during a flight out of Rancho Murieta Airport was piloted by Wally Boeck, a Murietan who staged an aviation summer camp for youth this year and headed a group of local pilots at Murieta Airport.  Read more »

The felling of 148 trees on county parkland next to the runway at Rancho Murieta Airport began Wednesday morning.

The tree-cutting at the Rancho Murieta Airport was already under way Wednesday morning when Sacramento County Deputy Parks Director Jill Ritzman led a media contingent from the airport parking lot to county parkland between the runway and the Cosumnes River. A backhoe was loading huge logs and leafy debris from felled black walnut trees into a truck on the dusty levee road as the group arrived.  Read more »

After years of legal wrangling, on Aug. 15 Sacramento County will begin cutting down more than 100 trees at Rancho Murieta Airport to comply with a court order.  Read more »

Rancho Murieta children between the ages of 8 and 17 again have the opportunity to take a free plane ride and join the ranks of the Young Eagles on Sunday, April 6, from 9 a.m. to noon, during the airport?s monthly open house for the public. A free pancake breakfast will be served by the Flying Vikings Club and vintage aircraft will be on display.  Read more »

Nearly 200 trees along the runway at Rancho Murieta Airport face the ax.

Sacramento County is working on a plan that would preserve some of the trees next to the runway at Rancho Murieta Airport and still comply with a court order to eliminate the hazard the trees pose for pilots.  Read more »

Kylee Howard, 8, took to the skies over Rancho Murieta with pilot Frank Storm at Sunday's Young Eagles event at RM Airport. Blue skies and perfect flying weather brought out a record-breaking 42 children for the free airplane and helicopter rides offered by the Rancho Murieta Aviators and other volunteer Experimental Aircraft Association aviators. The aircraft association established the Young Eagles program in 1992 to provide young people from 8 to 17 years of age with an introduction to flying, and the aviators' club hosts the events several times a year. In addition to their Young Eagle membership certificate, children received a pen in the shape of an airplane as a memento of their adventure. "It's good for the kids and the community," said pilot Wally Boeck, who coordinates the events for the club.

Rancho Murieta children between the ages of 8 and 17 have the opportunity to take a free plane ride and  join the ranks of the Young Eagles on Sunday, Nov. 4, from 9 a.m. to noon, during the airport’s monthly open house for the public.  Read more »