b'76 BKW | CYS | YYCCOMMUNITY RELATIONSFACTS&FIGURES Project: Charity Events on Airport PropertyLocation: Cheyenne (WY) Regional AirportEvent: 1st Annual 5K on the RunwayFormat: Participants run/walk on runway & parallel taxiwayNon-Profit Beneficiary: RISE Foundation of WY, whichSWEETassists veterans, service members & their families with mental health challengesParticipation: 180 runners; 250 overall attendees CHARITYFocus:Raising awareness for veteran supportAirports Large and Small Open Their FacilitiesLocations: Calgary Intl; Toronto Pearson; Vancouver Intl to Support Local FundraisersBY VICTORIA SOUKUPNon-Profit Beneficiary: Orbis Canada, which strives to prevent & treat preventable blindness Lets be honest. If youre readingalways wanted to do Event: Plane Pull for Sight this story, youre likely an airportone of these, says geek. At the very least, youreAirport Director Tim Established: 2009 someone who works in the airport industryBradshaw. Format: Teams of up to 20 people each raise minimum ofand kind of likes it. And if youre really beingRISE is a nonprofit $3,750 for the chance to pull an empty FedEx cargo plane 20honest, you still get a kick out of walking on ft. across the tarmac; the fastest team wins organization that a runway or hanging out on an airfield.assists veterans, Money Raised: Close to $250,000 (total from three TIM BRADSHAW2023 events)Theres something inherently excitingservice members and and interesting about airports. Thats why ittheir families with mental health challenges. can be incredibly effective when an airportGiven that Bradshaw is U.S. Coast allows people outside the industry ontoGuard veteran who is also involved in the its property for fundraising events such asfoundation, holding an event on CYS main Location: Raleigh County (WV) Memorial Airport car shows or an old-fashioned tug of warrunway seemed like a natural fit. Non-Profit Beneficiaries: Hospice of Southern Westagainst a 757 cargo plane. The timing was also right for a late Virginia; Brians Safehouse It was this sort of thinking that inspiredAugust run because Runway 9-27 was Event: Friends of Charity Auto Fair Cheyenne Regional Airport (CYS) to partnerclosed for a long-term construction project Format: Outdoor display of more than 500 hotrods, customwith the RISE Foundation of Wyoming onand not slated to reopen for commercial cars, classics, muscle cars, motorcycles, etc. its First Annual 5K on the Runway. I hadtraffic until early September. (See our Nov./Attendance: 8,000 people heard of airports doing this before and hadDec. 2023 issue for more information about Money Raised: $119,000+January | February 2024AirportImprovement.com'