American Heroes Air Show 2011 - Canceled

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American Heroes Air Show 2011 - Canceled


Saturday, July 16, 2011
Hansen Dam Sports Complex
Lake View Terrace, CA

Public Hrs approx: 8:30-4pm
www.heroes-airshow.com/losangeles

2010 thread :http://www.apsocal.com/index.php/topic,1623.0.html

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For those South of the 101 fwy  405 Closure info for that weekend.

http://www.metro.net/projects/I-405/

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American Heroes Air Show | Los Angeles is cancelled

Good morning – I apologize for this blanket email but we are struggling to get this information out to as many of our participants & guests as quickly as possible.

After a long, intense discussion with our volunteer event team we are taking action today to cancel the American Heroes Air Show which was
scheduled for Saturday, July 16 at the Hansen Dam Sports Complex in the San Fernando Valley.

We will be reaching out to many of you personally to background this decision for you but in the meantime our formal Cancellation Announcement is attached
and it will be up on our event website later today.

I encourage you to share this information with your friends / associates in airborne service and public safety to help us get the word out.

We sincerely appreciate the enormous support and enthusiasm from the community since 1993 for the American Heroes Air Show.

On behalf of our Volunteer – event team, our best wishes for your safe 4th of July celebration...


Jim



James D. Paules Jr.
Volunteer - Executive Producer
American Heroes Aviation Network

Mobile (818) 631-8132
Email:   Jim@Heroes-airshow.com

www.Heroes-airshow.com ;


American Heroes Air Show
2011 Schedule

Fort Myers FL              Jan    22
Austin TX                     April  16
Seattle WA                   June 18
X Los Angeles CA            July  16 X
Canton GA                   Sept  10
St. Louis MO                Oct  08

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Friday, July 1
Good morning all:
This is an extremely difficult message to share with all of you,
however after extensive discussions with our volunteer event team as
well as many of the organizations participating with helicopters for the
American Heroes Air Show, we have elected to cancel the American
Heroes Air Show scheduled for Saturday, July 16, 2011 at the Hansen
Dam Sports Complex.
For all of us on the event team this is an especially disappointing
decision after the many encouraging calls and enthusiastic e-mails
we've received about the event but we are seeing the real effects of
the CALTRANS closure of the 405 Freeway - many of which are just
now becoming known to us. As many of you know, we have to
schedule the Heroes event in January in order to get the approvals in
place for military aircraft. When we learned of the CALTRANS
decision to close the 405 freeway in late May our view was that the
guests who wanted to come the event would find a way to get there
and we continued with the planning and work with our participants
and sponsors.
Very recently we've learned that many law enforcement organizations
who have over the years provided a significant presence at the event
with helos for static / demos have been re-tasked for the July 16/17
weekend to be on active standby and fly surveillance missions to
assess traffic flow during the weekend. Additionally, several Search &
Rescue teams and aircraft with long-time ties to the American Heroes
Air Show have declined to attend so they can be on active standby for
any issues that may arise due to increased traffic flow as people use
the canyon roads for alternative routes.
Additionally, the aircraft that provide the popular red, white & blue
"Tribute" water drop have declined to participate this year.
Several other airborne public safety units have expressed informal
concerns about attending on this "closure" weekend.
Given the
extreme uncertainty which the CALTRANS 405 closure has created
across the Southland, along with our city / county officials relentlessly
advising families to stay home that weekend, we feel it would be
counter-productive to continue with the event planning and unfair to
our guests to invite them to an admission-free show about helicopters
and not have the diversity of aircraft they are used to seeing.
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Also, in several instances our departing sponsors have shared
their belief that team coverage level media attention during the
weekend will be focused on "car-mageddon" stories about the
freeway closure with little or no attention paid to their presence
at the American Heroes Air Show.
Additionally, financial pressures from increased fuel costs and
event permit fees along with the diminished participation make
cancelling the July 16 American Heroes Air Show – Los Angeles
the right decision.
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This uncertainty and inconvenience, financial pressures and media
focus are the main elements comprising a perfect storm of
challenges which we did not anticipate and ultimately formed the
basis for our decision to cancel the American Heroes Air Show in Los
Angeles for this year.
Looking ahead, our plan is to make sure we contact our
participants, vendors and guests with news of the cancellation and
retain our meager financial resources for next year when we hope
the schedule and economic climate will be more conducive to this
type of community event.
I will be in touch personally with our vendors / sponsors who have
stuck with us to make arrangements to fully refund any reservation
monies they have sent in.
We've had this cancellation notice also posted on our event website
and we hope you can help us get the word out by sharing this
information with your friends and associates.
On behalf of our entire volunteer event team, it has been our
sustaining privilege to work with all the Heroes of Southern
California on this event and we sincerely appreciate your support
since 1993 for the American Heroes Air Show – Los Angeles.
Our best regards,
James D. Paules Jr.
Volunteer - Event Director
Founder & President,
The American Heroes Aviation Network, Inc.
w w w . H e r o e s - a i r s h o w . c o m

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KCAL Story and video:
http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2011/07/01/air-show-canceled-due-to-scheduled-405-closure/