EAA Chapter 430 Monthly Gathering Minutes June 2021

Date: June 26, 2021 Gathering in-person meeting with 36 members and 1 guest attending.

Ken opened the gathering at 10:15 a.m.

Approved Minutes: The minutes for May 2021 meeting were approved. The minutes are posted on the EAA430 website.

Financial Status: Checking $2,146.00, savings $2433.00, scholarship $10.042.00. Correspondence: Covid-19 Update. Encourage anyone you know to get the vaccine. It protects us all.

Guest: Guest Barney Hall from EAA #1441 in Idaho. Barney has recently purchased a home in Sequim and will be relocating here. His main interest is Piper aircraft.

Board of Directors Reports:

Scholarship: Will fund by the paver program.

Paver Program: Dave Miller reported on the Paver Program, for Ray Ballantyne. Spots on the “airplane” layout are being reserved, and orders taken for pavers. Through June 30th, costs for the bricks are 4x8 pavers at $100 and 8x8 pavers $150. The current layout is available today if you want to reserve your spot. Dave explained that two sizes of clipart are available. Contact Ray at ray.ballantyne@gmail.com for details or to order.

Build-n-Fly: Sim-n-Fly – Need a new lead in order to re-start the program.

Blue Barn Adirondack Chair- Rick Vaux brought the chair to the meeting. It is on display and looks great. EAA Sign for Oshkosh – Madeline Patterson displayed the sign she made for the EAA Signpost at Oshkosh. It depicts the Olympic Mountains, and shows our chapter is indeed the “furthest Northwest in the lower 48”. Madeline also gave an update on her year at University of North Dakota School of Aviation, and answered some questions. Madeline is one of our scholarship recipients.

Fly outs: Barry Halsted reported that the fly out to Packwood was successful. Nine individuals and about 7 planes attended. We had a nice time and a great burger at the local restaurant. For July the fly out will be different. It will be a poker run, comprised of flying to five different airports during the month of July, and will end at the monthly meeting on July 31st. Since some of you will be at Oshkosh and miss the meeting, Barry has made a provision for that as well. See the mails from Barry for details.

Young Eagles – Bud Davies reported that the June 12th event at Sequim Valley was successful, with 50 kids flown. The next event is July 10th at Port Angeles. Need pilots for the event. Tracy Halsted has sent an email to pilots and ground volunteers, requesting they respond if they can help. The other two events are August 21st at Sequim Valley and September 18th at Port Angeles. (Continued on next page)

Membership – Madeline has completed entering all the information into the EAA online roster. The 430 roster can be accessed at https://www.eaachapters.org/main.aspx username is your EAA number. Initial password is “mustang”.

Announcements:

Ken asked for a show of hands who will be out of town for the July 31st meeting. 5 raised their hands. There will be no August meeting because that is the Air Affaire day of August 28th. There is a sign-up sheet for shifts of monitoring our chapter tent at the event. Please sign up.

Project Reports:

Norm Coote – Continues work on his Q2. He has 1900 hours into it, over the past 6 years. Scott Brooksby – is working on a Comanche rebuild.

Dave Moffit – is working on his RV12 project. He is working on the avionics and Richard and Barry helped him a lot this month.

Ernie Hansen – Is adding ADSB to his recently completed Super Cub. Just attended the Super Cub fly in in Idaho. Lots of great planes were there.

Barry Halsted – Currently has a wing tip ADSB inside the Cub fuselage. The metal paint in the covering is making it get unreliable reads so he is replacing it with a tail unit. The wingtip unit will be for sale and can be used on both certified and experimental airplanes.

Program:

Alan Millet, Sequim Attorney, spoke on LLC’s and reasons to have or not have one. Basically, if you are a sole owner of your aircraft there is no advantage, but if you are in a partnership with others, the LLC makes sense as it limits your liability in case of an accident. In a business situation, an LLC can provide tax advantages as well. Alan also stressed that adequate insurance is critical in any case. He recommends what is known as “million dollar smooth” which is not per seat. Most insurance policies are 100k per seat, which is not nearly enough. Speak to your own insurance broker for more information.

Hospitality – Bud made coffee, Tracy Halsted got the burger bash supplies, and Dave and Joan Miller cooked the burgers. There were a lot of supplies left over, so Tracy, Dave and Joan, will repeat the process for July burger bash. August is dark, but for September a new volunteer will definitely be required or there will be no burger bash.

The next VMC meeting is July14, Mariners BOD meeting July 18, Mariners Gathering July 31, Hangar 15 SV airport.

Looking for presenters for the remainder of the year. Contact Ken if you know anyone. Ken ended the meeting at 12:00 a.m.

Respectfully submitted,

Tracy Halsted for

Ray Ballantyne, EAA430 Secretary