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February IMC/VMC club online meeting Thursday Feb. 1 at 7 pm PST
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EAA Chapter 1541’s Fourth Saturday BBQ Lunch and Program will be held on Saturday, January 27, from 11:00 am until 1:00 pm. The BBQ Lunch starts at 11:00 at our hangar at the Lincoln Regional Airport. If you are not familiar with our hangar’s location, come to the airport and just follow the “EAA” signs.
The grill is hot from 11:00 a.m. until 11:45 a.m. when it shuts down, so come early. BBQ Lunch is $10.00 for adults, $5.00 for kids 17 or under (yep, we changed the age range to 17 and under), and $25 for families.
There will be a short business meeting at 11:45, followed by our program beginning at 12:00 noon.
Our program for January will be presented by chapter member Cris Ferguson. He will speak on designing, building, and flying the LR1 biplane air racer. Cris flew the LR1 when he won the 2007 National Champion Air Race for the Biplane Class.
Cris has been flying since he was 12 years old. Since then, he has accumulated more than 5,000 flight hours in 75 different aircraft ranging from a 1918 Jenny bi-plane to a Grumman US-2C Tracker. He has flown competitive aerobatics, performed in more than 80 air shows, and raced at the Reno National Championship Air Races in the Bi-Plan class and Formula One class for 20 years. Besides this, he also holds an Airframe and Powerplant mechanics certificate With Inspection Authorization.
He owned an S1-C Pitts for 22 years which he rebuilt from the wheels up. It had a highly modified engine capable of generating 230+ horsepower and he used this for airshows and air racing for many years.
His passion is building and designing experimental aircraft and race planes. This led him into the aircraft restoration business after he rebuilt a fellow racer’s aircraft after it was damaged in a runway accident.
In 2000, he moved to Arkansas to help start C & H Aircraft Restoration, Inc. Projects he worked on included an AQC-6 Cabin Waco and Meyers 145 (one of only 20 in existence). Plus, he designed and built a new race plane, the LR1, for fellow race pilot Jeff Lo; it debuted at the Reno Air Races in 2003. Chris later flew the LR1 himself at Reno and won the National Championship in the Biplane class.
Additionally in years past he worked for All Coast Aircraft Recovery. In moving various types of military aircraft across the United States for museums, he gained a wealth of knowledge and expertise.
In 2011 he and his wife Margret moved to California where he worked as the Service Manager for Selway Machine Tool Company in Hayward and retired from them in 2022.
Today he lives in Yuba City and joined Chapter 1541 last fall.
The video proceedings of the Lincoln Regional Airport users meeting held on Saturday, January 13, 2024 in the EAA chapter hangar is now available on our chapter’s YouTube channel. Details and a table of contents of topics discussed at the meeting can be found on our Membership meetings video page.
This coming Saturday, January 13, we will be having our Second Saturday Pancake Breakfast from 8:00 to 10:00 a.m. at the EAA hangar, S-12 at the Lincoln Regional Airport. If you are not familiar with the airport, navigate to Flight Line Drive and follow the “EAA” signs. All are welcome.
We’ll be cooking pancakes, eggs, and other good stuff from 8:00 am to 9:30 am when the grill shuts down, so come early. Breakfast is $10.00 per person, $5.00 per child under 12, or $25.00 per family. We’ll also happily renew your chapter dues for 2024. Cost is $30 for individuals or families.
We’ll have both the free chapter flight simulators, our Sim 1 pod and our virtual reality simulator, up and running and attended to help you or your kids take flight.
Airport User’s Meeting
Also on Saturday, January 13, our chapter will host an Airport User’s Meeting immediately after the pancake breakfast. Beginning at 10 am, the meeting will provide an opportunity for representatives from the City of Lincoln to present information about the current status of the airport and future plans, and also provide an open forum for users to ask questions and give input to the city, our airport operator.
Representatives from the city are expected to be:
The planned agenda includes:
The meeting is open to all airport users and interested parties. Please forward this email to interested non-members and spread the word about the meeting. This is an opportunity to learn, ask questions, and provide input.
This coming Saturday, we will be having our Second Saturday Pancake Breakfast from 8:00 to 10:00 a.m. at the EAA hangar, S-12 at the Lincoln Regional Airport. If you are not familiar with the airport, navigate to Flight Line Drive and follow the “EAA” signs. All are welcome.
We’ll be cooking pancakes, eggs, and other good stuff from 8:00 am to 9:30 am when the grill shuts down, so come early. Breakfast is $10.00 per person, $5.00 per child under 12, or $25.00 per family. We’ll also happily renew your chapter dues for 2024. Cost is $30 for individuals or families.
Tickets for the Holiday Party on the following Wednesday, December 13, will be available for purchase at the breakfast. (Update: Tickets are no longer available.) Tickets are $40 for adults and $15 for kids under 12. Tickets are also available online anytime at this dedicated page at our website, but only through Saturday, December 9.
The chapter board of directors will hold its monthly meeting immediately after the pancake breakfast…at 10:00 am. All chapter members are welcome to attend the board meeting.
We will be having our Second Saturday Pancake Breakfast from 8:00 to 10:00 a.m. in the EAA hangar, S-12 at the Lincoln Regional Airport. If you are not familiar with the airport, navigate to Flight Line Drive and follow the “EAA” signs. All are welcome.
Saturday is an important day…it is Veteran’s Day and our chapter salutes all the many U.S. military veterans in our chapter and among our family and friends by offering a free breakfast to all veterans who attend.
Something new: our chapter is now accepting payment via credit or debit cards, and also Venmo and PayPal.
Tickets for the Holiday Party on Wednesday, December 13, will be available at the payment table. They are also available at this dedicated webpage.
Our chapter Board of Directors will be having its monthly meeting directly after the pancake breakfast, so you are welcome to stick around for that also.
Yes, the holiday season is officially upon us, so the EAA Chapter 1541 2023 Holiday Party is set for Wednesday, December 13 at BJs Restaurant and Brewhouse in Roseville. Tickets are for sale at this special page on our chapter website. Tickets are $40 for adults and $15 for kids under the age of twelve. For our dinner, we’ll have an entree and four offerings of BJ’s deep dish pizza, plus salad and non-alcoholic beverages served in buffet style. There will be a no-host bar available also.
The party will offer a raffle with prizes to include a breakfast or lunch for four at Wings Grill at the Auburn Airport, special aviation books, gift certificates for local merchants, pilot supplies, and much more. All proceeds from the raffle benefit our chapter’s youth scholarship fund.
Plan to spend the evening of December 13 with chapter members, family, and friends at our special 2023 Holiday Party.
Tickets must be purchased ahead of time; they will not be available at the door of the event. The firm deadline for ticket purchase is Saturday, December 9. They will also be available in-person at the December 9th Second Saturday Pancake Breakfast.
Tickets purchased online will be “will-call” by name at the door.
For our Saturday, October 28, BBQ Lunch meeting, Scott Thompson will present on a widely-known but less-understood topic: Scrapping Our World War II Air Force.
(This program was originally scheduled for July 22 but that meeting was cancelled due to summer heat.)
Almost everyone has seen pictures of the endless rows of surplus warplanes gathered at remote desert fields after the end of World War II. Why were these bombers and fighters seemingly abandoned? What happened to them? Did we just scrap them and turn them into pots and pans? This presentation provides the details of what we did with a massive air force no longer needed.
The grill is hot from 11:00 a.m. until 11:45 a.m. when it shuts down, so come early. BBQ Lunch is $10.00 for adults, $5.00 for kids 12 and under, and $25 for families.
And, for your convenience, we are now accepting credit and debit cards, plus other methods of electronic payment, for our meals, t-shirts, dues, and donations. Please join us on Saturday.
Fly safe!