Mark your calendars for our Second Saturday Gathering on July 11.
Due to the summer heat, we will be having pancake breakfasts for the months of July, August, and September, so come out next Saturday as we break out the pancake batter and syrup for our inaugural feast.
We’ll be cooking pancakes, eggs, and other good stuff from 8:00 am to 9:00 am when the grill shuts down, so come early. Breakfast will be $10.00 per person or $25.00 per family, (or complimentary if you are one of our chapter’s Gold Members).
Our chapter continues to solicit volunteers to support the City of Lincoln’s Wings and Wheels event on Saturday, August 29, and you’ll have to opportunity to add your name to our list. Please consider lending the day, or at least part of the day, to presenting our airport to the community. We have volunteer opportunities on the city’s ramp team and our chapter’s simulator center at the Youth Pavilion.
Our program will be presented by chapter member Brent Smith on his long-standing project to return his unique Mini-IMP-C to flight.
As long-time chapter members and careful readers of our chapter newsletter know, Brent has been working on this project for almost three decades now…he picked it up in Texas in December 1998 as a rolling shell and has slowly rebuilt it back to an (almost-flying) airplane. He remains close to getting it airworthy again…he received his airworthiness certificate in January 2022, but has been hit by a series of vexing ‘challenges’ that he has patiently worked through. We are pleased to get an update on the Mini-IMP, and as a special treat, we expect the airplane to be parked outside our hangar for the gathering. There is a long history of the Mini-IMP design going back to the 1970s, and the airframe owned by Brent is one of the factory demonstrators, serial number 002, since modified and upgraded by Brent. Come hear more about this unique airplane and Brent’s long dedication in getting this one to fly again.
Driving in: follow the “EAA” signs on Flightline Drive at the Lincoln Airport (KLHM) to the EAA hangar, Hangar S-12. You’ll enter the fourth gate to the hangar area…please respect other users and don’t park in front of hangar doors or more than two deep alongside hangars to allow taxiway use. For fly-ins…we can accommodate a limited number of aircraft parking around our hangar but we usually can make it work. Email the chapter for more details.