Our August meeting will feature a speaker from the Coast Guard to talk to us about their program for Plane owners that provides a good opportunity to fly for your own plane for "free". Hope to see you there!
Find out more »Chapter Secretary David Bernacki will be presenting on the training opportunity at CAMI (Civil Aerospace Medical Institute) for civilian pilots. Hope to see you there!
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Find out more »This Months EAA meeting will feature local Helicopter pilot Joshua McCann. Joshua will be discussing his career as a helicopter pilot, transferring from military to civilian helicopter life, the upsides and downsides of flying Helicopters for a career, the opportunities available, and more! This should be a great opportunity for those with little experience/knowledge of the helicopter side of aviation along with seasoned aviators. We hope to see you there!
Find out more »This months EAA Meeting will feature Bill Leftwich! Bill will be discussing the history of why and how the Air Cam was developed along with his experience owning two Air Cams. Bill worked at the Air Cam factory from 1994 to 2004. He was involved in the design and fabrication of design #3 which became the kit that is sold today. Of the 265+ Air Cams that are flying, Bill built over 20 of them. This should be a good…
Find out more »Hey Everyone, I'm happy to announce that we will be having an EAA meeting this month on July 18th, at 10am, at the Statesboro-Bulloch County Airport. I'm also happy to say that Cliff Holt, our previous EAA Chapter President, will be our speaker this month. His presentation is titled: US Navy Anti-submarine Warfare Operations During the Cold War. Cliff will discuss things such as detecting and tracking Russian submarines during the 60s and 70s, along with showing pictures of and…
Find out more »Hey Everyone! I'm Happy to announce that we will be having a presentation this August on August 22nd at 10am at the Statesboro Bulloch airport conference room. Our presenter will be Michael Carra. Michael Carra is an Aviation and Military Historian, and a professional speaker. He has spent over 35 years on study and research. His main area of research has revolved around the “Moment in Time” that occurred on December 7th, 1941 at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. He has scheduled…
Find out more »Hey Everyone!! I'm happy to announce that our September meeting will be on September 19th at 10am at the Statesboro-Bulloch County Airport. Our speaker this month is Scott Martin, a test pilot for Gulfstream. As you can imagine being a test pilot, Scott has had a vast experience in aviation with many interesting stories. At this meeting, Scott will share his story of test flying a replica of the Wright Flyer. This should certainly be an interesting presentation, hope to…
Find out more »Hey Everyone, This month's EAA 489 meeting is on October 24th, at 10am at the Statesboro-Bulloch County airport in the conference room. Our speaker is Eddie Gantner. Eddie is a career commercial pilot having flown freight, corporate, as well as flight simulator instructing. Eddie wrote an autobiography entitled "Flying Vagabond". Some of you may have met him at our September meeting. To see his website click here: http://www.flyingvagabond.com/ Eddie will be presenting on his career experiences flying, as well as his…
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