Don’t forget that it’s the Lincoln Airfest on Saturday. We’re cooking a pancake breakfast from 07:00 to 10:00, and we’ll be selling raffle tickets for an hour’s flight experience for two, as well as volunteering for the ground handling.

On June 19th, (07:00 – 14:00), Benton Airpark (O85) are having a fly-in.
Adults $8 Kids 5 – 12 $5 Under 5 Free

Come out and see:

• Modern Aircraft & Flyers’ Favorites
• Vintage Aircraft and Warbirds on Display
• Experimental Aircraft and Ultralights
• REACH Helicopter, PHI Air Medical Helicopter, Huey Helicopter, and CHP Helicopter
• Model Aircraft Display

Helicopter Rides by Air Shasta – $50/person or $120/group.
Fixed-Wing Airplane Rides Available from Benton Air Center.

Brought to you with help from The Mt. Shasta Chapter of 99s and Benton Air Center. For more information, call (530) 276-8157 or (530) 275-5103 or visit their website.

We’ve decided to have the 1st Saturday of the month as ‘open hangar day’.

Come have breakfast, Dick Rupe’s ‘famous’ coffee and talk about aircraft stuff, served from 08:00 to 10:00 at hangar S12.

The usual pancakes, sausage and eggs will be served for the usual $5.
(note that all meals for our 18 Gold members are free – you could be one too!)

So, come join us at the EAA hangar, in the North most gate, #4. See you there, rain or shine.!

The June Board of Directors meeting takes place tonight, Wednesday June 1st. As usual, it will be at Pizza Roundup, 2270 Nicolaus Rd., Lincoln… dinner at 18:00, meeting at 18:30. All members are invited.

Nut Tree (KVCB) has their monthly pancake breakfast this Saturday. Last month they had over 130 people attend, and over 20 airplanes fly in. This weekend, they should have a P-51, Ryan STA, Cessna 140, and hopefully a couple other surprises rolled out for display. They also have 100LL fuel discounts.

Don’t forget that Aluminum Overcast, the EAA’s B-17, is at Mather on Memorial Day weekend. Flights are available.

Join us all at our hangar, S12 for the May member meeting.
Marty Maisel will present on some aviation history.

As usual, burgers at 18:00, meeting at 18:30.

Jim is flying the Poker Run on Saturday and has no passengers.

There’s the right seat open in his 1961 Cessna 175B.

Any interested folks, email Jim.

There’s a need for volunteers to handle/control the two gates that vendors, show cars, and attendees pass through. For this volunteer component we’re asking our people to work only one two hour shift, in return for free entry to the event and $5 towards lunch. Virtually all stations will not require standing (chairs and tables will be provided).

If you can help, please email Richard.

For the Lincoln Airfest, on Sat, June 11, we have about 27 folks on our volunteer list. We need about 12 more folks.

This is a 1 day event and we’re planning on having 2 shifts on the ramp, 08:00 to 12:00, and 12:00 to 16:00.

Plus, we need a number of relief folks who can fill in for an hour or so, or take over a ramp position.

The ramp will be roped off into 3 sections.

1. the north display area.
2. the center section, to the fuel pumps.
3. the south section, which will be parking visiting aircraft and transients.

Each of these sections will have a section leader and a crew that will handle aircraft moving in their sections.

There will be an ‘Air Boss’ directing landing aircraft to one of the taxiways and sections.
The ‘Ground Boss’ will be operating on a ground frequency and will direct aircraft to the appropriate section.

The organizers are expecting 80 display aircraft, airshow aircraft, and some military jets. This is a big event, and much more complicated to run than the Trimotor event that we held last year.

We’re also going to need golf carts, so if you have one that you can lend us, let us know.

If you can help, please email Jim.