Simsbury Fly In & Car Show

I’ve lived in Simsbury since Ronald Reagan was President and the only thing I knew about the Simsbury Airport was that I see a sign for it when I go to the town dump for a recycling run. I had never set foot on the premises until today when we visited the Simsbury Fly In & Car Show.
The show happens to be the largest of its kind in this part of the country, and includes 750 airplanes and cars plus a ton of vendor booths with sponsors, exhibits, activities, and food booths. It’s like a miniature Big E with hundreds of airplanes buzzing around.
We saw dozens of planes land and take off. We walked around the grounds and looked at hundreds of small aircraft, including some mind blowing one-​person home-​made miniatures. We even saw the Life Star Helicopter land.
There was a cool Irish band playing live music and we had a blast strolling the grounds checking out the planes and cars. We lined up along the runway ropes and watched as plane after plane appeared out of the sky and taxied down the runway.
We saw tons of families and kids enjoying this terrific event. Parking was ten bucks, and admission was free with a donation suggested.