Wings up for Air Affaire

Published 1:30 am Wednesday, August 27, 2025

For $10 a carload this Saturday, the Olympic Peninsula Air Affaire and Sequim Valley Fly-In offers some of the best aircraft and vehicles that the Sequim area has to offer.

Organizers are optimistic the weather will hold for the event from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 30 at the Sequim Valley Airport, 468 Dorothy Hunt Lane off Old Olympic Highway.

“We had 50 planes one year, so that’d be wonderful to see again,” said co-organizer Emily Westcott.

She helped start the Air Affaire in 2013 for the City of Sequim’s centennial year and the airport’s 30th anniversary.

It continues, Westcott said, to “encourage people of all ages to check out planes.”

There will be helicopter rides available from Seattle Heli Tours, a 1929 Travel Air, and tethered rides in a hot air balloon from Captain-Crystal Stout and Dreamcatcher Balloon Team.

Rides are on a first-come, first-served basis for a fee or donation, depending on the ride.

For more information about tethered balloon rides, contact Stout via dreamer@nwplace.com. Look for updates at Facebook under @DreamCatcherBalloon.

Rides are offered, dependent on weather, from 8:30 a.m.-10:30 a.m. for $25, or free for veterans.

Any make and model of vehicle can also participate in the Show and Shine for $5 per car. Gates open at 8:15 a.m. for vehicles with voting available to decide trophies.

Organizers are also planning for antique and experimental airplane exhibitions, remote control aircraft displays, live music, and food and aircraft vendors.

Westcott said she’s hoping airplane groups from the I-5 corridor will attend along with antique airplanes from the Port Townsend Aero Museum, depending on weather.

She also anticipates Dave Woodcock and his historic 1944 Piper Cub L-4H to attend.

Entry to the event is cash only. For more information, visit olympicpeninsulaairaffaire.com.