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Scorpion Bay
by Grant Boyd
Fred Borrelli’s 1979 Cessna 421C landing at Scorpion Bay Airport in San Juanico.
El Aeropuerto de Scorpion Bay is a newly opened airport in Baja California Sur, Mexico, roughly
two-thirds of the way between Ti- juana and Cabo San Lucas. Two pilots from Southern California, Fred Bor- relli and Phil Benham, spearheaded this airport’s multi-year development.
“I’ve been flying twins for almost three decades and have owned seven [Cessna] 310s. When I stepped up into the 421, a cabin-class airplane, I re- alized it was easy to get behind as I entered my seventies. So, I hired Phil [who also had significant experience flying in Baja], and he has done a great job stepping in on my airplane.”
These two figured that an airport would be a much-needed investment in the small pueblo of less than a
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PHOTOS COURTESY OF ‘SCORPION BAY AIRPORT’
The Cessna 421 on the runway.
