2026 Exercise

Table of Contents

  1. Date
  2. Location
  3. Exercise Handbook
  4. We need your help!
  5. Planning Meeting Minutes
  6. After Action Report

Date

Thunder Run will occur on June 13th, aligned with Oregon DARTs Whale Run exercise.

Location

We will be organizing food and goods for pickup at 2 hub airports: Skagit and Walla Walla. Pilots will fly these goods to various airports across Puget Sound. Pilots are needed for both those longer runs to and from Walla Walla to Skagit as well as short runs ranging from 10 minutes (Skagit KBVS to Camano 13W) or as far as 1 hour (Skagit KBVS to Shelton KSHN)

These airports are ready to receive Thunder Run deliveries:

AirportOrganizationDelivery Times
Camano Island 13WCamano Island9:30AM – 10:30AM
Chapman FarmsGrays Harbor CountyNoon – 2PM
Port Angeles KCLMClallam County DART10AM – Noon
Shelton KSHNHartstene Pointe CERT / DARTNoon – 2PM
Skagit KBVSThunder Run9 – 1PM
Island County W10South Whidbey10AM – Noon
Walla Walla KALWWalla Walla9AM – 11AM

Exercise Handbook

Click here to see our Exercise Handbook

We need your help!

We need volunteers TODAY to help coordinate with our emergency readiness organizations, distribution airports and facilities, good and good donors, and fund-raising. Whether it’s just an hour or two a month or just on the day of the event, your help is incredibly appreciated to make this year’s exercise successful.

On June 13th, we’ll need help:

On the ground

  • Picking up food and bringing it to the airport
  • Moving the food onto airplanes
  • Offloading airplanes for distribution to local food banks and shelters

In the air

  • Flying missions from our hub airports, located both on the west side of the Cascades as well as in Walla Walla, to airports across Puget Sound.

Please sign up here or visit our Volunteer Page today to find out how you can help.

Planning Meeting Minutes

February 9, 2026 Planning Meeting Minutes and Recordings

March 11, 2026 Planning Meeting Minutes and Recordings

April 8, 2026 Planning Meeting Minutes and Recordings

April 21, 2026 Planning Meeting Minutes and Recordings

May 5, 2026 Planning Meeting Minutes and Recordings

May 26, 2026 Planning Meeting Minutes and Recordings

May 28, 2026 Volunteer Meeting Minutes and Recordings

June 9, 2026 Planning Meeting Minutes and Recordings

June 11, 2026 Pilot Briefing Minutes and Recordings

After Action Report

You can find the details of how the 2026 Thunder Run exercise went in our After Action Postmortem.