We’ve added a new section of photos of the Fancher Heights area that sits above East Wenatchee. Fancher Heights encompasses the hillside overlooking East Wenatchee and comes with a great view of the Columbia River, the mouth of the Wenatchee River, and the city of Wenatchee.

Fancher Heights is also the area where Clyde Pangborn landed his plane, along with his navigator Hugh Herndon, successfully completing the first non-stop flight across the Pacific Ocean. Being that this area is so far inland from the coast, non-locals still have trouble believing that something as significant as the first non-stop flight across the Pacific Ocean would have ended somewhere like North Central Washington. Nowadays, Fancher Heights is primarily residential housing that is slowly working it’s way up the hillside overtaking farmland.

See more pictures of this area in our Fancher Heights Gallery which is located inside the East Wenatchee Photo Gallery.

Or view pictures of other North Central Washington communities here.