Santa Flies into Sheridan County Airport on Saturday

A warm day greeted the crowd at the Second Annual Santa Fly-in at the Sheridan County Airport. The terminal was filled with youngsters wanting to see Santa come into Sheridan via airplane, and to tell him their Christmas wishes.

J.T. Grainer, founder of 307 Pilots Association said this about the second annual Santa Fly in.

The fly-in is presented by the Sheridan Pilots Association, with help from the Sheridan Memorial Hospital, that provided the hot cocoa with marshmallows, candy canes and letters younsters could fill out and mail to Santa. The event was free and open to the public.

Pilot Justin Heide talked about what it was like to bring Santa in by plane.

Heid grew up in Sheridan and has managed airports in Tennessee as well as in Oklahoma, where they put on the Santa Fly In event and it was always popular. When they moved back to Sheridan, Justin wanted to put on the event here, and this year is the second one for Sheridan.

He added that they had to leave

Santa, of course, is all about children, and there were many children there. One attendee and her youngster had this to say.

Jonathan Broersma ,5th-6th Grade Teacher and Assistant Director of Technology at Arvada-Clearmont, brought his youngsters to the event.

Broersma’s daughter Alice said she was going to ask Santa for a Pop-up Game.

Santa was kept busy hearing children’s Christmas wishes, and the elves handing out cocoa and candy canes had a busy day as well. Youngsters also filled out their letters to Santa and mailed them to the North Pole.