Taking to the sky with Flighttime
Wiscasset village from the north side of the Davey Bridge Aug. 15. Sean Rafter of flying club Flighttime piloted this scenic photo op. PHIL DI VECE/Wiscasset Newspaper
Wiscasset Elementary School and the octagon house, at left, are on Federal Street. PHIL DI VECE/Wiscasset Newspaper
State Route 144 showing the bridge over Back River and linking Wiscasset to Westport Island. PHIL DI VECE/Wiscasset Newspaper
Birch Point, Wiscasset and the closed Mason Station power plant. PHIL DI VECE/Wiscasset Newspaper
Davis Island, Edgecomb showing Route 1 and the Davey Bridge with Cod Cove at the lower right. PHIL DI VECE/Wiscasset Newspaper
Wiscasset’s waterfront showing the railroad and town piers. PHIL DI VECE/Wiscasset Newspaper
Wiscasset village from the south side of the Davey Bridge. PHIL DI VECE/Wiscasset Newspaper
Downtown Wiscasset. PHIL DI VECE/Wiscasset Newspaper
Boothbay Harbor. PHIL DI VECE/Wiscasset Newspaper
Boothbay Harbor. PHIL DI VECE/Wiscasset Newspaper
Washburn & Doughty Shipyard, East Boothbay. PHIL DI VECE/Wiscasset Newspaper
The Twin Villages, Newcastle and Damariscotta. PHIL DI VECE/Wiscasset Newspaper
Wiscasset Municipal Airport. PHIL DI VECE/Wiscasset Newspaper
Wiscasset village from the north side of the Davey Bridge Aug. 15. Sean Rafter of flying club Flighttime piloted this scenic photo op. PHIL DI VECE/Wiscasset Newspaper
Wiscasset Elementary School and the octagon house, at left, are on Federal Street. PHIL DI VECE/Wiscasset Newspaper
State Route 144 showing the bridge over Back River and linking Wiscasset to Westport Island. PHIL DI VECE/Wiscasset Newspaper
Birch Point, Wiscasset and the closed Mason Station power plant. PHIL DI VECE/Wiscasset Newspaper
Davis Island, Edgecomb showing Route 1 and the Davey Bridge with Cod Cove at the lower right. PHIL DI VECE/Wiscasset Newspaper
Wiscasset’s waterfront showing the railroad and town piers. PHIL DI VECE/Wiscasset Newspaper
Wiscasset village from the south side of the Davey Bridge. PHIL DI VECE/Wiscasset Newspaper
Downtown Wiscasset. PHIL DI VECE/Wiscasset Newspaper
Boothbay Harbor. PHIL DI VECE/Wiscasset Newspaper
Boothbay Harbor. PHIL DI VECE/Wiscasset Newspaper
Washburn & Doughty Shipyard, East Boothbay. PHIL DI VECE/Wiscasset Newspaper
The Twin Villages, Newcastle and Damariscotta. PHIL DI VECE/Wiscasset Newspaper
Wiscasset Municipal Airport. PHIL DI VECE/Wiscasset Newspaper
The Wiscasset Newspaper got a different perspective of the towns it covers thanks to Flighttime Inc., a flying club based at Wiscasset Municipal Airport.
Sean Rafter of Bradford Road, Wiscasset piloted the club’s four-passenger Cessna 172N on a 90-minute flight over the Midcoast Thursday morning, Aug. 15.
The pictures show a bird’s eye view of Wiscasset village, the Boothbay peninsula, Westport Island, the Twin Villages of Damariscotta and Newcastle, and more. From Wiscasset, the flight went southward circling Seguin Island and then traveling northeast to Rockland before returning. David Pope of Federal Street, Wiscasset went along for the ride.
Rafter, who’s been flying since 1964, said he’s logged just shy of 11,000 hours of flight time but still gets a thrill every time.
Flighttime stores its plane in a hangar at the airport. The club’s 14 members take turns flying the aircraft maintained in part through an annual membership fee. Rafter said the club has been going strong for almost 20 years and is always looking for new members. It meets in the terminal building’s conference room at 7:30 a.m. the first Friday of every month.
“People are welcome to come watch our Spot Landing Contest that will be held (at) 3 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 25,” added Rafter. Aviation enthusiasts can bring a lawn chair and watch pilots test their runway landing skills. Afterwards, club members will be grilling hot dogs and hamburgers at a potluck barbecue.
Jack Swanton of Westport Island is club president, Rafter is vice president and Rick Mitterling serves as treasurer. Member Alex Poliacoff of Richmond is a certified flight instructor.
Learn more at www.flighttime.org
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