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From the Editor

Highlights - 2025 Chapter Activities

From the January 2026 newsletter, by Richard Howell, pages 4-8

Open the PDF at page 4 See the whole January 2026 issue

Visitors walking among airplanes parked on a grass airfield (opens a larger view)

As a newly minted newsletter editor, it seems like it would be a missed opportunity to not take advantage of the low-hanging editorial fruit offered by reflecting on the past year, at the beginning of this new year. So how about a look at some of the fun our chapter had with airplanes in 2025?

Boy did we do some flyouts to fun places in 2025!

Fundraisers for scholarships

  • Chili Bingo Night
  • Poker Run
  • Swap Meet

2025 had gatherings with fellowship and good eats…

We flew Young Eagles and held a Build and Fly event We helped one another In 2025 EAA Chapter 430 members shared the wonder of aviation

More photos

Airplanes and visitors under the open front of a hangar (opens a larger view)
Members standing at the front counter of an FBO lobby (opens a larger view)
Members eating lunch at a table during a gathering (opens a larger view)
Member standing beside swap meet tables outside a hangar (opens a larger view)
Members seated at long tables in a hangar during a gathering (opens a larger view)
Kids and adults building model gliders at a workshop table (opens a larger view)
Young Eagles and volunteers on the ramp beside parked airplanes (opens a larger view)
Pilots and volunteers in safety vests gathered on the ramp (opens a larger view)
Three members smiling beside an airplane engine on a stand (opens a larger view)
Pilot standing beside a silver low-wing airplane with the canopy open (opens a larger view)
Smiling pilot and young passenger in the cockpit of a blue airplane (opens a larger view)
Group of members on the ramp near a control tower (opens a larger view)
Pilot seated in an open-canopy airplane (opens a larger view)
Yellow Cub-type airplane on a grass field (opens a larger view)

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