LIVE | Lonestar STOL Competition 2026 | Road to the National Finals | Sulphur Springs, TX

🔴 *IT'S COMPETITION DAY IN TEXAS!* Welcome to the 2026 Lonestar STOL Competition, LIVE from Sulphur Springs Municipal Airport (SLR)! It's the FINAL regular-season event of the 2026 National STOL season! Pilots from across the country are fighting for podium finishes, valuable championship points, and a chance to advance to Saturday's NATIONAL STOL CHAMPIONSHIP FINALS! From classic Piper Cubs and Cessnas to extreme STOL machines, watch pilots push their aircraft to the limits in a battle of precision and skill. 🏆 Who will win Lonestar STOL? 🔥 Who will advance to the National Finals? *EVERY INCH MATTERS.* ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🏁 *2026 LONESTAR STOL COMPETITION* 📅 Friday, October 30, 2026 🕐 1:00–5:00 PM Central 🎟️ Spectator Gates Open: 12:00 PM 📍 Sulphur Springs Municipal Airport (SLR), TX 🎟️ Tickets: https://nationalstol.com/lonestar/ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔥 *PRACTICE RESULTS — WHO'S LOOKING FAST?* Best valid combined takeoff and landing distances from Thursday's Practice #1: 🏁 *ROOKIE* 🥇 #81 Robert Card — 180 ft 🥈 #200 Amy Haass — 374 ft 🥉 #144 Justin Humphrey — 384 ft 🏁 *TOURING* 🥇 #345 Derek Holman — 362 ft 🥈 #60 Kevin Oliver — 367 ft 🥉 #45 Rick Holman — 380 ft 🏁 *WILDERNESS* 🥇 #30 Brandon Corn — 178 ft 🥈 #10 John McCardle — 231 ft 🥉 #260 Luke Strandlund — 239 ft 🏁 *ADVENTURE* 🥇 #8 Mike Babcock — 108 ft 🥈 #408 Tanner McInteer — 163 ft 🥉 #85 Brian Shirley — 180 ft 🏁 *BACKCOUNTRY* 🥇 #259 Phil Shearer — 199 ft 🥈 #19 Jeffrey Harrell — 227 ft 🏁 *CUB* 🥇 #68 Nick Ardillo — 174 ft 🥇 #222 Ryan Melendez — 174 ft 🥉 #67 David Warren — 288 ft 🏁 *VINTAGE CUB* 🥇 #61 Garry Holcomb — 477 ft 🏁 *SPORT* 🥇 #11 David Kerley — 163 ft 🥈 #127 Major Dibble — 184 ft 🥉 #95 Matthew Dorssom — 209 ft 🏁 *UNLIMITED* 🥇 #3 Hal Stockman — 125 ft 🥈 #40 Patrick McInteer — 159 ft 🚨 Mike Babcock recorded an incredible 108-foot combined distance, while Hal Stockman posted a 24-foot takeoff! Practice scores are not official competition results. Today's runs determine the Lonestar winners! ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✈️ *2026 LONESTAR STOL COMPETITOR ROSTER* 🏁 *ROOKIE* #81 Robert Card #144 Justin Humphrey #119 Gary Haass #200 Amy Haass 🏁 *TOURING* #345 Derek Holman #45 Rick Holman #89 Garrett Holman #135 Chip Ferguson #307 John Douglas #60 Kevin Oliver #65 Jeff Abrams #88 Adam Gordon #27 Ty Ferkin 🏁 *WILDERNESS* #260 Luke Strandlund #10 John McCardle #30 Brandon Corn 🏁 *ADVENTURE* #85 Brian Shirley #8 Mike Babcock #408 Tanner McInteer 🏁 *BACKCOUNTRY* #19 Jeffrey Harrell #259 Phil Shearer #16 Brad Crawford 🏁 *CUB* #68 Nick Ardillo #67 David Warren #222 Ryan Melendez #125 Chuck Olmsted 🏁 *VINTAGE CUB* #61 Garry Holcomb 🏁 *SPORT* #127 Major Dibble #11 David Kerley #79 William Vaughan #95 Matthew Dorssom #126 James Keith 🏁 *UNLIMITED* #14 Ronnie Saner #9 Daniel Reynolds #92 Jody Card #40 Patrick McInteer #3 Hal Stockman 📋 Official Roster: https://roster.nationalstol.com/publi... 📊 LIVE SCORING: https://scoring.nationalstol.com/ Roster and participation subject to change. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🏆 *THE ROAD TO NATIONAL FINALS* Friday's Lonestar STOL Competition is the FINAL opportunity to earn season championship points! The top FIVE eligible pilots in each class based on season points advance to Saturday's National Finals. Plus, a pilot finishing in the top three today who hasn't otherwise qualified may earn a WILDCARD entry! Only one wildcard is available per class. Up to SIX pilots per class will battle for the National Championship! ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎃 *TRUNK OR TREAT — TONIGHT!* Friday, October 30 | 5:30–7:00 PM Bring the family for trick-or-treating around the airplanes and meet the competitors! Included with event admission or just $5 separately. 🏆 *NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP FINALS — TOMORROW!* 📅 Saturday, October 31 🎟️ Gates Open: 9:00 AM 🏁 Championship Begins: 10:30 AM Central Who will become a 2026 National STOL Champion? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✈️ *WHAT IS NATIONAL STOL?* National STOL (Short Takeoff and Landing) challenges pilots to take off and land their aircraft in the shortest possible combined distance. Precision, aircraft performance, and pilot skill determine the winners! ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔴 *WATCH • FOLLOW • SUBSCRIBE* 🌐 https://nationalstol.com 📺    / @nationalstol   📘   / nationalstol   📸   / nationalstol   👍 LIKE the stream! 💬 COMMENT with your favorite pilot! 🔔 SUBSCRIBE for Saturday's National Finals! Thank you to our sponsors, volunteers, pilots, and fans for making National STOL possible! #NationalSTOL #LonestarSTOL #STOL #STOLCompetition #NationalSTOLChampionship #Aviation #GeneralAviation #ShortTakeoffAndLanding #BushFlying #SulphurSpringsTX