The 45th Annual Cracker Fly-In at Gainesville’s Lee Gilmer Airport is the best July 4th weekend deal in North Georgia. Need a cool place to take the kids on Saturday, July 5th, 2014, that won’t cost more than your first car? For $3 per adult …
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Gainesville’s Cracker Fly-In Cancelled

One of Gainesville’s most family friendly events — the annual Cracker Fly-In — has been grounded due to stormy weather. This would have been the event’s 45th year celebrating homebuilt, vintage and warbird aircraft. Richard Strickland of the EAA’s (Experimental Aircraft Association) Local Chapter 611 …
2012 Cracker Fly-In Pictures
I have no idea whose idea it was to begin the Cracker Fly-In 44 years ago, but it was a stroke of genius. As John Pittman — President of Chapter 611 of the Experimental Aircraft Association, Inc. (EAA) in Gainesville – told me, it is …
Gainesville’s Cracker Fly-In
Like airplanes? Have I got a deal for you. The skies over Gainesville will have 150 of the coolest planes you’ve ever seen coming in for a landing at the 44th Annual Cracker Fly-In at Lee Gilmer Memorial Airport at 1137 Aviation Way. It all …