Quality Aviation Services

Our commitment: Safety, Integrity, Quality, Professionalism, Service, Courtesy!

What are you going to do for

your next summer vacation?

1. Hang out at the mall?
2. Play video games?
3. Watch Star Trek reruns?
4. Walk across the Tridge 1000 times?
5. LEARN TO FLY!

There are few things more rewarding than learning to fly. If you are a responsible person, between the ages of 14 and 94, then you can learn to fly. Call to set up a Discovery Flight and find out what flying is all about. Call: 989-615-1103, or email: JT.

The 14^th Annual Midland Aviation Camp dates have been set for June 15-20, 2009.  This is a wonderful day camp for teens entering 9^th-12^th  grades.  Classes are taught by volunteer pilots, teachers and special speakers who introduce young people to the aviation/ aerospace world. 

Topics covered include aviation history, aviation occupations, airports, aircraft, aeronautics, weather, cross country planning, and much more.  Campers visit MBS International to get a first hand look at the control tower, fire barn, and corporate hangars.  Local aircraft builders also invite campers to their hangars to view the variety of unique airplanes based at Barstow.  Campers get lots of hands on experience including flying a cross country they have planned with local pilots who volunteer the use of their aircraft for the camp.

Classes will be held at the Ormond Barstow Aviation Education Center, sponsored by the Experimental Aircraft Association, Midland Chapter 1093. 

Register now to join the adventure and fun!

Cost is $90.  For more information and application forms, contact Janine at 989-615-1103 or email aviationcamp.

You won’t want to miss our first Fly-In Pancake Breakfast on May 2. Griddles are hot and ready to serve at 7am thru 11am. The all-you-can-eat menu includes pancakes, sausage, eggs made to order, home-made doughnuts, warm muffins, coffee and juice.
Our local EAA Chapter 1093 has made it their goal to perfect the “Dawn Patrol” tradition by continually seeking to improve their breakfast menu and add new features to the Fly-In attendees experience. Several special activities and displays are planned for kids and adults alike.

Come enjoy the good food, good fun, and good conversation - rain or shine!

(If you can’t make this one, there are two more - June 27 and September 12. )

For current weather observations call 989-835-5841.

Online: saiawos2.com/IKW or anyawos.com/K3BS

Aircraft broadcast frequency: 119.525

That’s right! Our new AWOS installation is up and serving pilots and the Midland community with the local weather observations from Barstow Airport. The weather reading and broadcasting equipment updates observation reports every minute, uploading reports to the National Weather System every 20 minutes. Not only do pilots have access to the current weather observations by listening to their aircraft radio, but Midland residents can also find out what AWOS is reporting by listening to the recorded observations on the dedicated phone line or checking for reports on internet weather sites.

As a result of this new installation, Jack Barstow Airport will be receiving a new 3-letter identifier - IKW - “Where everyone is I-nvited and K-indly W-elcomed”. The new identifier will become official with the FAA publications effective July 2, 2009.

Make Barstow Airport your Great Lakes stopover on your way to Oshkosh!  We now have AWOS, 119.525.  Find us at our new identifier - KIKW.
Our staff is waiting to greet you and assist in any way we can to make your stay with us convenient and comfortable.

For your convenience: 24 hr self-serve 100 LL and Jet A pumps ** full service Jet A fuel truck ** hangar space and tie-downs ** wireless internet ** courtesy car ** AWOS ** GPS and VOR approaches

Join us for complimentary beverages, snacks and ice cream for “Oshkosh Week”, July 24 -Aug 3. Compliments of Midland EAA Chapter 1093 and Quality Aviation Services.

You will find ….

• 5 hotels/motels including Holiday Inn and Hampton Inn
• over 20 restaurants including Bob Evans, Bennigan’s, Applebee’s, Logan’s Roadhouse, Ruby Tuesday
• many shopping locations including Midland Mall, Target, Sears, Kohls, and Wal-Mart

…. conveniently located within 2 miles of Barstow Airport.

Local events to see on the way to and from AirVenture 2009:

• Michigan Antique & Collectible Festival (7/25&26)
• Great Lakes Loons baseball - home games
• Great Lakes Haflinger Horse Show (7/31, 8/1&2)
• Chippewa Nature Center - Dow Gardens - Midland Center for the Arts

Call for inquiries and courtesy car reservations: 989-835-3231 or 989-615-1103.

Join us every Friday morning for fresh homemade goodies, hot drinks and “hangar flying”. On the 3rd Friday each month at 10am, we will have an aviation related video presentation - classic movie, interesting documentary, or fun surprise. Some upcoming features include “Operation Dumbo Drop”, AirVenture 2008, Midland Aerial Tour. See you here!

Saturday, Dec 6, 2008 Child and Family Services of Michigan will be receiving Christmas presents for needy individuals from aircraft converging on Barstow Airport. Operation Good Cheer has been organizing volunteers since 1971 to purchase, collect and distribute gifts for kids in foster care. A group of SE Michigan pilots use their own aircraft to fly to Pontiac and pickup the gifts collected by donor groups and individuals and brought to the centrally located Pontiac airport. The aircraft then scatter to various MI airports where they are met by volunteers from local Child and Family Services offices. Weather permitting, Barstow Airport will see a variety of aircraft arriving Saturday morning bringing Christmas cheer to foster care kids in Midland county.

For more info: www.cfsm.org/OperationGoodCheer.htm

Barstow Airport just installed a new Wi-Fi system. Now pilots can get broadband Internet access to check their email or news in the terminal. Just swing by the office and get the connection information. Wx computer still available in the pilot’s lounge.