Spring is undoubtedly on its way no matter what the weather or the almanac tries to tell you. Officially March is the first spring calendar month on our latitudes but February has been trying to work its way into this category this year. Climate change? (...) The bird in our logo – the crane – Crus crus – never stops to fascinate. This year the “invasion” was watched at Pulken, a marsh-like area south of Kristianstad in the south east of Sweden. Most known among bird watchers is the Hornborgasjön, where 15-20.000 cranes rest each year on their way to Northern Sweden or Finland to establish...

The thermometer shows – 21 Co, a black velvet sky sprinkled with bright quivering stars is the backdrop in our snow covered village Siljan Airpark. Not a sound can be heard, the cliché of “so silent that it hurts yours ears” seems for once to be exact the sentence in place. There is nothing as silent as snow gently dropping through the air softening your steps and gently silencing loud voices. The essence of poem written in 1986 by Helge Rode, a Danish poet. Time for non-flying doings, hangar activities like building, nursing and caring for aircrafts. Days of skiing ahead, skiing through...

SAPnews 6 - 2018

If you missed this wonderful article you now have a new chance as the author Russell Myles has given permission to publish the link to his wonderful and very informative article about the one and only airpark in northern Europe Siljan Airpark. Follow the link and enjoy Russell's fascinating text and beautiful photos which just make you wanting to go there right away and look for a plot- for- sale- sign http://www.sigurdmartin.se/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/SAPS.pdf  

Spring is on the move, and spring means end of skiing season, opening of flying season, end of heavy boots and mittens, and welcome to birds, sun, and above all – the cranes! On March 23rd 15000 cranes were counted at Hornborgarsjön and ”our” crane couple already arrived. And if we are lucky we may witness the famous crane dance that often will result in a little new crane who will have to learn the art of flying before leaving for Spain in august. Also this time of the year is Easter approaching and this often means more people in the airpark. Soon the SAP village will be humming with...

Thanks to a persistent and diplomatic approach an agreement was finally reached with the owners of the ground where the grove at threshold 32 is located. The grove has gradually grown to become a risk for landing aircrafts and the airpark has spent quite some time persuading the owners to cut it down. Now finally an agreement was reached and the approach will soon be free of obstacles. The challenge now for landing aircrafts will be to avoid coming in too low in order not to be a nuisance for people living there. Beware of that!

Remember Judith Wordsworth? She visited Siljan Airpark when writing her thesis for her MSc on Sustainable rural development (SRD) implications of Residential Airparks as part of her field studies and data collection back in 2011. Now she has been participating in the FAI World Air Rally Championship in Portugal and wrote an interesting and very informative blog about her experiences as one of the two british representatives in a Cessna 172. Visit her blog https://flyerjude.wordpress.com/

PRELIMINARY SCHEDULE FOR THE WEEKEND Saturday 29th of October 9:00 to 15:00 Work day. Briefing outside Fredrik E before it starts. 16:00 to 19:00 Workshop/meeting. Snacks are served. @ Dannes hangar. 19:00 to … Bring-your-own-dinner @ Dannes hangar. Sunday 30th of October 09:00 to 12:00 Work day – half. Briefing at Fredrik E before it starts. Register to christer@stockbygarden.se latest Oct 15 PRELIMINÄRT SCHEMA FÖR HELGEN Lördagen den 29e oktober 9:00 till 15:00 Arbetsdag. Uppsamling utanför Fredrik E. 16:00 till 19:00 Workshop/möte. Fika och snacks serveras. Plats: Dannes...

Today August 15th it looks like this from the Rollvägen/Vindmyrvägen corner... ...and from the Vindmyrevägen/Rodervägen corner After many years' of plans and discussions our common "swamp" is finally being drained and levelled partly thanks to good timing and negotiations and partly to a generous donator.

Celebration Around 50 air-parkers and local flying club members chose to spend their Saturday evening on the 23rd of July celebrating the 10th anniversary of the asphalt runway – a mile stone, indeed. 5:30 the threshold of RWY 32 was crammed with people cheering with Champaign and congratulating each other to this day. Carl Rönn presented briefly the story behind the asphalt runway and the shovel manufactured by Toffe and used for cutting the first turf was on display. Rune showered the guests with Champaign from the LS4 and René in his RVG congratulated the runway with breathtaking...