EAA Chapter 1025

Any Chapter members not visiting the airport in the past few days missed a lot of activity.  Dick Seiders’ RV12A quickly outgrew his home shop and is now being completed at the airport. This is Dick’s second build, and he may well be close to a record build time for the RV-12.

And just today, two builds received their wings within minutes of each other. Ron Brown’s RV-9a got its wings first. Ron moved his project to the airport a few weeks ago.

 Just moments later, Bill Bailey’s RV7A received its wings. This task occurred under the watchful eye of Steve Newcomer, who can be seen working hard in the lower right photo.

Congratulations to Dick, Ron and Bill on achieving these very significant milestones! Additional photos of these and other member’s projects and aircraft can be seen in the Project Gallery.

The crowd was a little thin at our monthly Pancake Breakfast this morning. Rumor has it that quite a few of our regulars were down South at Sun ‘N Fun.    Dave Henderson of Lawrenceville, Ga. dropped by with his beautiful, newly painted RV-7.

OK, RV experts. First one to correctly identify the purpose of the pod under Dave’s right wing will win a coupon for a $5 breakfast next month.

More photos of Dave’s RV7 can be found in the Photo Gallery.

Also, John Martino of Peachtree City dropped by with his awesome Mustang II. John has put 560 hours on his Mustang since completing the build nine years ago.  This bird, with its 200 HP IO-360 hits 215+ MPH in level flight. Many, many thanks to John for my (Emory’s) first ride in a Mustang. It motivated me to get back to work on mine.

Once again, Mayor Kim Carter called for the city to manage the airport and terminate its contract with the current airport manager, Dixie Jet Service.

And once again, the council delayed making a decision on the future of the airport’s operation.

Discussion of early termination was not on the agenda but was brought up during Monday’s work session. The council was considering an agenda item about a new airport operation proposal from Dixie Jet owner Bob Riddell.

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