Originally Posted by
jrl767
Marquette (MQT) uses the former K.I. Sawyer AFB ... I had a forced RON there in 2007 when I was attempting a transcontinental turboprop run; MQT-MSP cancelled due to thunderstorms, and I spent the night in the Red Fox Inn (the former VOQ), where my family had stayed in 1966 while on a road trip from DC -- visited my parents' aunts and uncles in Chicago; then headed home via the Upper Peninsula (spent the next night at Kincheloe AFB), North Bay, Ottawa, and relatives in the Morristown NJ area
I'm sure you did too on your programs but I had plenty of visits to Moses Lake, another former Cold War B-52 base, while on KC-46. With flying out of BFI, if we were doing anything heavy weight, we often had to hop over to Moses Lake first to gas up to heavy/max weight since the runway at BFI wasn't long enough to permit the heavy weight takeoff while Moses Lake had more than ample runway lengths. Moses Lake also permitted other maneuvers you couldn't do in the far busier Seattle airspace. And it wasn't uncommon to see C-17s from McChord also flying around Moses Lake to do touch-n-go's and other training that was easier to do in less crowded airspace.