Crowds eat, watch, talk and fly at annual Air Fair fly-in

The doors of the paint-peeled hangar were thrown open and the sounds of propellers cut through the air as the 2016 Air Fair fly-in got underway at the Havre City-County Airport Saturday morning.

Area residents flocked to the small airport where for a few hours people got to talk with pilots, marvel at personal as well as experimental aircraft and for $7 per person, enjoy an all-you-can-eat breakfast provided by the Havre Lions Club.

Willie Hurd, president of the North Central Hangar of the Montana Pilots Association, said his organization has been putting on the event annually for about...