FLY OZ

🎣 HOOK, LINE, AND SINKER! 🎣
Looking for the perfect way to celebrate Father’s Day weekend? Pack up your lawn chairs and bring the whole family out for the 4th Annual FLY OZ Fishing Tournament! ☀️🐟

Whether you’re a seasoned angler or just looking for some outdoor fun, this event is FREE and open to the entire community. Rain or shine, we’re casting lines!

⛵ BONUS ACTIVITY: Double the fun by the water! Sail RC Model Yacht Association will be hosting the Osage Park RC Sailboat Regatta Races in a designated area of Lake Bentonville—it's going to be another fantastic, action-packed event to come watch!

🗓️ When: Saturday, June 20th
⏰ Time: 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM
📍 Where: Lake Bentonville at Osage Park
✅ Free Pre-Registration Here: https://forms.gle/Ut3ANsic53qPfg1C8

🏆 Age Groups & Awards
Youth: 13 & Under
Adult: 14 & Over
Awards given for: Biggest Fish, Smallest Fish, Most Fish, Best Alternative Fish, and Best Fishing Attire!

🌭 Hungry? We’ve got a Hot Dog Lunch Bar ready for you for just $10!

🍧Oh Snap Ice Cream will be peddling their sweet treats around the park!

🎒 What to bring: Your fishing license, rod & reel, bucket, bait, chair, sunscreen, bug spray, and a little bit of luck! 🍀 See you by the water!

Join FLY OZ and Blake Taylor from Razorback Approach on Tuesday, January 14th at 6pm in the KVBT Exhibit Hanger for the Razorback Approach ATC Forum! Come ask those flying questions you’ve been dying to ask an air traffic controller and meet other fellow pilots! There will be nibbles, bites, and happy hour! FAAST WINGS credit will be available. Please RSVP you and your guests here- https://forms.gle/hV2uFZe5fuXLXJ5P6.

Thank you to everyone who attended the FLY OZ Landowner’s Appreciation Dinner on Saturday! We had a great time meeting the landowners of our FLY OZ network of airstrips. We feasted on Wright’s BBQ and Rick’s Bakery Sweets, and we were serenaded with music by Will Gunselman! We appreciate all the landowners do to keep their grass airstrips maintained, and for allowing pilots the privilege of visiting them! We can’t wait to spread the amenities that each FLY OZ airstrip offers and hope you will consider visiting them as well! FLY OZ is built around the generous airstrip landowners. Please join us in thanking them for all they do!

Calling all aviation lovers!! Thaden Field and Textron Aviation will be hosting a community day complete with:
✅ aircraft’s on display, ✈️
✅ food trucks, food 🌯🍕🍗🍦🌭
✅ vendor booths, 🎟️
✅ a bounce house 🏰. AND
✅live music! Music🎶🎸🎹

THIS SATURDAY, September 14th from 11am-3pm. Come meet local pilots and support local businesses at Thaden Field! See you there 🤗

Come visit the FLY OZ booth at First Friday: Adrenaline event on the Bentonville Square this Friday from 3-9pm. Enter to win a Discovery Flight at Thaden Field or a flight in a GB1 GameBird! There will be FLY OZ and GameBird merch for sale and campfire smore’s stations! Look to the skies at 5pm to see aerobatic champion and GameBird designer Philipp Steinbach lead a flight of GameBirds over the Bentonville Square. We’ll see you there!

Emergency Tales and Tours of the Cockpit event this Saturday in the Thaden Field Exhibit Hanger!! Roger Woolsey will be bringing an A-26 that fought in the Battle of the Bulge to KVBT! The A-26 has been on a European tour and it will be stopping by Thaden Field on its way back home from the Airventure show in Oshkosh, WI. 

The A-26, Miss MillionAiress, will land at 11:30am and be open to the public for a meet and greet! Then at 4pm, FLY OZ Club members are invited to a Tales and Tours from the Cockpit event in the Exhibit Hanger with Roger Woolsey!

Please join us for this once in a lifetime opportunity to experience a WWII warbird at our airport!