Grassroots aviation thrives at member-built Airpark in Plattekill



Tucked off Freetown Road, just beyond the hum of the New York State Thruway, sits a place where aviation’s past is carefully preserved even as its future continues to take flight.

Old Orchard Airpark isn’t a commercial airport or a busy municipal airfield. It’s a member-built, member-operated grass strip where vintage aircraft, homebuilt airplanes and decades of aviation experience come together in a community unlike any other in the Hudson Valley....

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