The annual Cashmere-Dryden Airport Day celebration is coming the first weekend of September.

Chelan County announced it will welcome visitors to the municipal airport from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sept. 6 – the same weekend as the Chelan County Fair to draw visitors already going to Cashmere.

In its fourth year, the celebration offers free activities for all ages. About 30 single-engine airplanes will be on display, along with antique cars and a couple of helicopters. The County said there will be activities and food trucks with a shuttle transporting people around the airport, which will be closed for the day.

For the first time, the event includes large-scale RC aircraft demonstrations. The remote-controlled aircraft are about six feet long with up to a 10-foot wingspan and will fly over the

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