EAA
Chapter 309
Dinner
Meeting Minutes
September
19, 2005
The monthly dinner meeting was held beginning at 7:00 pm at
the Captains Galley Restaurant, 11032 E Independence Blvd with approximately 20
people attending.
Ronnie Brown led the meeting (president John Wigney and VP
Ravi Thakkar did not attend the meeting).
John had extended his regrets as he was working with Katrina relief
efforts. Ronnie and Wally Overton gave
an update on the Gastonia Hangar project the Gastonia City Council has
approved our request to lease land at the Gastonia airport. Next steps will include obtaining
engineering specifications from the building supplier. These will be used to obtain the necessary
building permits.
Sam Stewart gave an update of the submission of documents to
the IRS for 501.c.3 certification as a non profit organization. The documents have been received by the IRS
but it could be an additional 200 days before we hear back from the IRS.
Sam and Kevin Cromie gave an update on the fundraising
efforts. Sam and Kevin will be
contacting the membership to begin finalizing donations, loans and funds to
fully fund construction of the new home for EAA 309 at Gastonia.
Next was a discussion about the upcoming events at Monroe
US Airrace and the November 5 Fly-In at Lincolnton. Folks were invited to participate on Thursday and Friday
(September 28 & 29) at Monroe. We
will be serving breakfast beginning at 7:00 AM on Friday.
A sign up sheet was passed around for the Lincolnton
event.
Signage Ronnie Brown
Parking Lot Sara Forrest
Setting up on Friday
Shelters
Jerry Wiese
Tables
& Chairs
Welcome Tent Registration
Raffle
Ticket Sales (Tad Sargent?)
Registration
for Aircraft Judging
Garbage pick up/emptying trash containers
Communications COMs and Walkie Talkies
Music and PA System Eric Roberts
Fly Market Susan Robb
Shelter and
Tables
Hamburgers and Hotdogs Kevin Cromie, Sam Stewart, David
Borders
Collecting
money
Cooking
Serving
Barbara Perkins
Ramp Control Bob Thayer
Guest
Safety
Aircraft
movement and parking
Aircraft Judging Van Lawless
Antique
Gary Witt
WarBird
Homebuilt
Young Eagles Coordinator Ken Poindexter
Registration
of YEs
Loading and
unloading
Photos
Floating Folks to work on any of the above
Bob
Perkins, Dale Ensing, Tad Sargent, Ross Gresley
NOTE: WE PLAN TO
ROTATE FOLKS ALL DAY SO YOU DONT GET STUCK DOING JUST ONE THING ALL DAY!
Gary Witt made a presentation featuring pictures of his
recent trip to Wisconsin. He attended the
Grassroots Fly-in at Brodhead, WI. It is nearly 600 miles and 6.5 hours with
one fuel stop in Seymour, IN.
The club has a fish-boil on Friday night and pork chop dinner on Saturday
night. Grassroots is presented by the Midwest Antique Airplane Club of
Brodhead. It is in my opinion the best antique and classic fly-in in the lower
forty eight. The CD I will show was done by my high school friend and cohort
from 1945, Frank Baker. Frank has owned his Piper Cub for 39 years. You will
see lots of Cubs in the presentation.
It is a three day event but nearly everyone is gone by noon Sunday. I arrived
on Thursday as did John Baker (Frank's brother) from Denver, CO. There were
Standards, Wacos, a Gruman Widgeon, Cubs, de Havilland Tiger Moths, Champs,
Aeronca C-3's, WWI replicas flying continuously during the event. There was a
replica of the Curtiss Pusher and a Bleriot XI. The Tiger Moth gave rides
continuously during its visit as did an RV-4 and the Widgeon"
The meeting was adjourned at 8:45 PM.
Ronnie Brown