Help us make this fundraiser a successful one!
Hopefully everyone is back from Oshkosh and had time to rest for a bit. Now it’s time for your next adventure. We’re only four weeks away from New Garden’s biggest event of the year: 2025 Festival of Flight Air, Car, & Tractor Show.
Returning as a weekend event after a few years of constant TFRs, everyone is expecting a large crowd to be present, and we’re hoping the crowd will be a hungry and thirsty one!
We will be providing a pancake breakfast for both Saturday and Sunday, and will be selling hot dogs on the airshow grounds throughout the event on both days.
The airshow will take place from 2pm to 10pm on Saturday, and from 10am to 5pm on Sunday. Other events (including a 5k race) will take place in the morning before the airshow, which will also draw crowds.
This has the potential to be one of our biggest fundraiser events of the year, but we will definitely need your help for that. With both days (and especially Saturday) being long days, we’re looking at two (or even three) sets of volunteers for each day.
We’ll have to transport supplies Thursday, Friday and maybe even Saturday (Aug 21-23). If you have a pick-up truck or a large van we could definitely use your help.
We’ll plan on doing most of the set-up work on Friday (Aug 22nd) afternoon, and we’ll need a few volunteers for that.
A pancake breakfast will be served to airshow participants and members of the public on both days, and then we’ll be serving hot dogs at the airshow in the afternoon and evening on Saturday and morning and afternoon on Sunday. We’re hoping to have enough volunteers to split the hot dog sales teams into two groups for each day.
At the end of the day on Sunday, we’ll need a few volunteers to break down and store all the pancake breakfast and hot dog equipment/tables/canopies.
Here are the volunteer group breakdowns:
Fri 5 PM to 7 PM (clean hangar and set up for breakfast).
Sat 6 AM to 12 Noon ( serve and cook breakfast, clean up, about 10 AM set up Hot Dog stand, sell hot dogs)
Sat 12 Noon to 6 PM ( sell hotdogs)
Sat 6 PM to 11 PM (sell hot dogs, clean up)
Sun 6 AM to 12 Noon (serve and cook breakfast, clean up, set up for hot dogs, sell hot dogs)
Sun12 Noon to 6 PM (sell hot dogs, clean up, move supplies back to the hangar)
As you can see, it’s not a small endeavor. We’ll need all the help we can get, but the more people we have, the easier it will be for all of us.
One significant perk for our volunteers: they will receive a free airshow pass. That’s a $50 value right there.
Please use the links below to register for the event segment (or segments) you’d like to volunteer:
SUPPLY TRANSPORT
FRIDAY SET-UP
SATURDAY MORNING
SATURDAY AFTERNOON
SATURDAY EVENING
SUNDAY MORNING
SUNDAY AFTERNOON
If you’d like to make other volunteering arrangements, drop us a line at airshow2025@eaa240.org.
