Airshow of the Cascades

The Airshow of the Cascades is an annual event held in August at the Madras Municipal Airport in Central Oregon.

It started in a field outside of Madras in the 1970s and draws around 10,000 people with around 150 aircraft on display.

[1] The show began in the late 1970s at rancher Ron Ochs's alfalfa field near Madras.

[2] In 2000, the airshow moved to the Madras Municipal Airport.

[1] Planes from the Erickson Aircraft Collection became part of the show in 2014 when a new museum housing the collection opened at the Madras Airport.