In 1999, the Hornets decided to build their own private airport, after 25 years of moving from one airport to another to another due to rising costs.
The club started in 1974 as Chapter 474 of the Experimental Aircraft Association. Its first home was Warwick Airport, then Orange County Airport and eventually Kobelt Airport in Wallkill.
A 24 acre defunct apple orchard in Modena became available, and work began.
Hornet members with heavy-equipment experience and surveying and construction backgrounds, joined in a six-year task to build Old Orchard Airpark.
Trees were cleared, the land was graded, access roads were built and a site plan for a Clubhouse/Shop, 40 privately built and owned hangars, and a tiedown spaces was developed.
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