Festival of Flight
Location: Pangborn Memorial Airport
Address: 1 Pangborn Drive East Wenatchee WA, 98802
Contact Email: events@eastwenatcheewa.gov
Website: Event Link
Date: Jun 20, 2025
Time: 07:00 pm - 09:00 pm
Price: Free
Organizer: City of East Wenatchee
Join us for a free, family friendly, community event! Learn about East Wenatchee’s aviation history, check out some amazing airplanes, grab some lunch from our delicious food vendors, have your face painted, visit our exhibitors, and have fun learning with their exciting aviation and Japanese activities! The weekend will kick of with a movie on the Tarmac at the airport, beginning at dusk on June 20th, 2025. The festivities will continue on June 21st, as we celebrate all thing aviation!
On October 3, 1931, Clyde Pangborn and Hugh Herndon left Sabishiro Beach in Misawa, Japan, to fly Miss Veedol across the ocean in the first non-stop, transPacific flight. After 41 hours in the air, Miss Veedol crash landed on the bluffs above East Wenatchee. The Wenatchee Valley has been connected to Misawa and the aviation world ever since and Pangborn’s Festival of Flight was created to celebrate this historic event.