AOPA Pilot Magazine - July 2024 - 62

The Blue Sky Center offers glamping at the
airport in cozy huts. Each room at Cuyama
Buckhorn follows a Western theme, complete
with cowboy hats and a s'mores kit for the
fire pit. Enjoy a Californian breakfast of
avocado toast at the Buckhorn's Buck Stop
coffee shop.
pilot who heard about the project
and was interested in helping.
Hearst flew himself up to L88 and met
with Sappington, curious to see the
progress so far and ensure that any
potential funds would be well used.
After some deliberation with local
companies on the cost of repaving versus
gravel-and deciding repaving was
the best path forward-the L88 Circle
contacted Hearst with a cost and the
reason why repaving was the best
option. With a fresh field, even if they
couldn't secure funding to repave again
in the future, a good repaving left the
option to downgrade to gravel in the
future, leaving a path for the field to stay
open. Hearst agreed, and the repaving
was approved with the understanding
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that this would be the one and only grant
from Hearst-it was up to the L88 Circle
to keep the airport open.
Fast forward to today-L88 is open,
with a new runway, new windsock, and
visitor log, and the L88 Circle regularly
meets at the field and the Buckhorn
hotel to help ensure the future health of
the field. The L88 Circle and Blue Sky
Center hosted the first Enchanted Valley
Fly-In over the May 10 weekend.
Looking back on the years-long process,
which was at times slowed by the
pandemic, Sappington acknowledges that
success was never assured. While he and
others put everything they could into the
project, including countless weekends
of unglamorous labor, they also knew it
could very well not work out. With one
finish line crossed, the L88 Circle did
take the time to enjoy the reopening in
October 2022, but have since been hard
at work continuing to protect the field.
No one individual in the L88 Circle takes
credit over his or her peers, instead noting
that it was always a group effort,
using each person's strengths from the
other parts of their lives to create the
team that led to success.
Persistence means more than perfection.
The New Cuyama Airport is a
unique success story that showcases the
power of pilots who love a field enough
to act and protect it, even when they
didn't know the exact steps needed. If
we follow the lead of the L88 Circle, we
may be able to protect fields like this for
years to come. alicia.herron@aopa.org

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