Freedom Flight Park

Freedom Flight Park Offering lessons and tandem flights in paragliding, hang gliding and motorized trikes near the town o

One of Canada's first dedicated hang gliding flight parks (established 1976)
Expanded to accommodate Paragliders, ultralights, Trikes and conventional aircraft in 1978. Main runways 18L and 36R located 1 mile north of Lumby BC Canada #249 Mabel Lake Road.

RDNO Area D representative Rick Fairbairn stopped by to present a cheque to the Lumby Air Force to support the Lumby Ai...
05/13/2025

RDNO Area D representative Rick Fairbairn stopped by to present a cheque to the Lumby Air Force to support the Lumby Air Races which create entertainment for the Lumby Days and goes towards prizes for the pilots in the society's annual fund-raising hang gliding and paragliding competition. Society director Randy Rauck thanked the RDNO and the Lumby Days Society for their continued support!
About the Lumby Air Races: The Lumby Air Races is a recreational, and educational cross-country triangle flying event for Hang Gliders and Paragliders. It is the main annual L.A.F. Fundraiser that helps support the non-profit society which develops and maintains local flying sites and designated landing areas. Participating flyers are challenged to complete GPS official triangles above Lumby from launches on Coopers and Saddle Mountains to entertain visitors to the annual fair. Over the week long competition, scores are awarded for 10km, 25 km, 50km and 100km triangles. Pilots must be registered to win prizes.

Congratulations to all the pilots who flew in the Lumby Air Races competition, and before, during and after Lumby Days! ...
06/18/2024

Congratulations to all the pilots who flew in the Lumby Air Races competition, and before, during and after Lumby Days! The Flyers and Volunteers participation and involvement around the Flight Park made it fun for all the spectators and organizers! 😁🥰

The Lumby Air Races had twenty-five paragliding and hang gliding pilots enter the competition this year which involved completing tasks set out each morning of the week-long event based on the wind and weather. Unfortunately, Saturday and Sunday of Lumby Days were not flyable due to wet conditions.

Winners had to fly a minimum 10-kilometre triangle above Lumby or earn points for completing other tasks such as distance, laps over Saddle Mountain (Friday evening) and personal best.
The Lumby Air Force thanks its event sponsors, Lumby Days and Regional District of North Okanagan Area D for contributing the prize money.
Nine trophies and awards totaling $1500 were given out on Saturday evening. The 2024 Lumby Air Races Winners were:

Paragliding Sport 1st Place & Personal Best Ike Burkhart, Lumby
Paragliding Sport 2nd t Place Michel Laurin, Courtenay

Paragliding Open 1st Place Bill Goglin, Williams Lake
Paragliding Open 2nd Place Kevin Ault, Cultus Lake
Paragliding Open 3rd Place Norm Lawlor, Harrison Hot Springs

Hang Gliding Sport 1st Place Randy Rauck, Lumby (2 triangles)
Hang Gliding Sport 2nd Place Bill Soderquist, California
Hang Gliding Sport 3rd Place Rick Hines, Spallumcheen (points)

Hang Gliding Topless 1st Place Jesse Scrimbit, Sicamous (points)

Pilots also came from Ottawa, Cochrane, Canmore, Vancouver, Victoria, Quadra Island, Armstrong, Revelstoke, Enderby, Fernie, Coquitlam, Kelowna, Salmon Arm, and Coldstream.

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08/08/2022

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With the launch behind them, pilots Mike Waddington of Cochrane Alberta and Rick Hines of Hamilton Ontario won the Para...
06/17/2022

With the launch behind them, pilots Mike Waddington of Cochrane Alberta and Rick Hines of Hamilton Ontario won the Paragliding and Hang gliding events at the Lumby Air Race during Lumby Days, completing the most turn points with flights over the weekend. Second and Third place winners in hanggliding included Linda Verhoeven of Vancouver and Bryan Saunier from Coquitlam, while in paragliding Michel Laurin of Vancouver Island finished second and Bill Goglin 3rd from Horsefly BC. Best flight of the weekend went to Jason Jell of Lumby.
Overall the competition attracted dozens of pilots who launched from Cooper's Launch and Saddle Mountain with Jason staying up for over 3 hours above Lumby. At times more than a dozen flyers could be seen in the air. The Lumby AirForce Flying Club would like to thank the Regional District and Lumby Days and its sponsors for their support of the event and the weather for providing the thermals, winds, and sunshine!

Here's Lorelei Fiset picking up the new Lumby Air Force Trophy for the Lumby Air Races from CarveWel Creations carverTy...
06/12/2022

Here's Lorelei Fiset picking up the new Lumby Air Force Trophy for the Lumby Air Races from CarveWel Creations carverTyler at Lumby Days Family Festival "65th Anniversary Finally" Happy Days theme he's done so many beautiful pieces including bears, eagles, and this Feather for the Flyers! Watch later for posts about the 2022 award winners !

10/28/2021

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! After last year's hiatus due to Covid, the Freedom Flight Park held it's annual potluck dinner and bomb drop/spot landing competition. If you are not familiar with...

Happy Birthday to The Paragliding Instructor Of The Year 2020, and probably again in 2021,...Mr. Dave Underwood!! A good...
10/01/2021

Happy Birthday to The Paragliding Instructor Of The Year 2020, and probably again in 2021,...Mr. Dave Underwood!! A good time was had by all at The Freedom Flight Park : ) All those baby windsocks in the background represent graduating P2 students!!

The Freedom Flight Park is pleased to announce that our very own Dave Underwood has won the "Michael Robertson Instructo...
06/04/2021

The Freedom Flight Park is pleased to announce that our very own Dave Underwood has won the "Michael Robertson Instructor of the Year" award from the Hang Gliding & Paragliding Association of Canada!

Dave has now been instructing for 7 seasons at the flight park and the number of graduates from paragliding has grown steadily year after year from 1 graduate in 2015 to 28 P2 pilots last year. Dave also instructs hang gliding and is one of only eight instructors in Canada who teach both sports and the only current one in BC.

​Congratulations Dave!

Address

249 Mabel Lake Road
Lumby, BC
V0E2G5

Opening Hours

Monday 8am - 5pm
Tuesday 8am - 5pm
Wednesday 8am - 5pm
Thursday 8am - 5pm
Friday 8am - 5pm
Saturday 8am - 5pm
Sunday 8am - 5pm

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+1 250-891-4447

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At the Freedom Flight Park we teach people how to fly paragliders, hang gliders and ultralights. Visit the Freedom Flight School to learn more about how you can be flying in less than one week!

We also offer tandem paragliding. If you’re interested we ask you to call ahead or book a time online: http://www.freedomflightschool.com/book-now.html

The flight park is open any flyable/teachable day (no rain and not too windy) from early May to mid October. Solo pilots are welcome to come and enjoy our skies with us.

The Freedom Flight Park in Lumby, BC is one of Canada's first dedicated hang gliding flight parks, established 1976. We expanded to accommodate ultralights and conventional aircraft in 1978 and paragliders later on.