The Weekender: Christmas Lunches And Year-End Pancakes

This weekend's annual holiday airport parties get perfect timing just a few days before Christmas, as seen on SocialFlight's calendar. This month's Wings and Wheels fly-in on Saturday at William P. Hobby Airport in Houston will honor museum volunteers and planespotters. Weather permitting, Hobby Ops will offer airport tours with rare photo ops. Santa arrives at 11:15 a.m., with kids' storytime at 1 p.m., followed by the annual Aviation History Trivia Contest at 1:30 p.m. Santa also will stop in at 1:30 p.m. Saturday at Smith-Reynolds Airport in Winston Salem, North Carolina. Watch him land, then take the kids for a visit between 2 and 3.

For a New Orleans-style Christmas party, check out the annual holiday event at St. John The Baptist Parish airport in Reserve, Louisiana. Gumbo, salad, hot dogs and beverages will be on the menu courtesy of Hangar 39. Most of the final monthly fly-ins of 2014 also will be on Saturday, including the monthly all-you-can-eat pancake breakfast at Marv Skie-Lincoln County Airport in Tea, South Dakota; EAA Chapter 190's third Saturday breakfast in Huntsville, Alabama; and EAA Chapter 242 in Columbia, South Carolina, where a variety of aircraft building projects are underway. For more events scheduled this month, check out SocialFlight.com.