The Canyon Pilots Association Labor Day Weekend All-You-Can-Eat Fly-in Breakfast is this Sunday, Sept. 3 from 8 a.m. to noon indoors at the corporate hangar at the Grand Canyon Regional Airport in Delmar Township at 112 Runway Road, Wellsboro, PA 16901.

The breakfast is open to the public and will be held rain or shine. Parking is free. Handicapped parking is available. 

On the menu are buckwheat pancakes, ham, eggs, coffee and orange juice. Requested is a donation of $10 for adults and $5 for youngsters, ages 3 to 8 years old. Children 2 and under are admitted free.

Weather permitting; pilots in various types of full-size aircraft will fly to the airport for the breakfast. 

The public is welcome to watch them land and take off and talk to pilots about their “flying machines.”

If the weather cooperates, a Black Hawk heIicopter and its crew wiII be at the breakfast from 8 a.m. to noon. A four-blade, twin-engine, medium-lift utility military helicopter, the UH-60 Black Hawk was manufactured by Sikorsky Aircraft.

Chris Kuonen, a member of the Canyon Pilots Association, made arrangements with Fort Indiantown Gap, a Pennsylvania National Guard Training Center, to fly the Black Hawk to the airport for display during the breakfast.

Two other aircraft, a C130 American four-engine turboprop military transport aircraft designed and built by Lockheed, may be doing a fly over from the Niagara Falls Air Reserve Station along with a LifeNet 7-7 based in Hornell, NY.

In addition, there will be airplane rides for a fee. Helicopter rides will be raffled off.

Members of the Canyon Country Ultralight Club will assist with the breakfast.

The Mountain Modelaires will display radio controlled airplanes and helicopters and a one-third scale RC Piper J-3 Cub. 

For more information about the breakfast email Sebastian Smith at sesmith@ptd.net.