EAA Chapter 430 Newsletter, March 2024

CHAPTER 430 MARCH 2024 In This Issue  From the Left Seat (Ray)  Idita Tower (Contributed by Ray)  Membership Report (Erik)  March Flyout  Directory Upcoming Events March 30 – Gathering @ 10am Wm. R. Fairchild Airport Terminal, 9:30 a.m. breakfast and social time April 2 – Tetrahedron rebuild at W28 @ 10AM 10 – VMC/IMC, Mariner Café @ 7PM 19 – BOD, Mariner Café @ 9AM 27 – Gathering, W28 @ 9:30 AM SAVE THE DATES Flying Start May 18 – CLM @ 1PM Young Eagles June 1 – Sequim July 13 – Port Angeles September 7 – Port Townsend (moved from August 17th ) September 21 – Sequim (contingent on weather June 1)

FROM THE LEFT SEAT –RAY BALLANTYNE For the first time this year, we’re enjoying some good flying weather! Barry jumped right on that and held the March fly out to Tacoma Narrows on the 14th. His report is later on in the newsletter. It was great to see so many 430 members- (about 30) at the Northwest Conference and Trade Show last month. I thought it was a good show. At VMC/IMC this month, 18 members were regaled and challenged about aviation by Harry Cook. Come early for a seat at the Mariners Cafe on April 10 at 7:00 pm for the next meeting. Although weather prevented us from flying, I joined Richard, Barry and Tracy, as we drove to Harvey field to attend the EAA leadership boot camp on Saturday the 9th. It was a full day of briefings and meeting with other chapter’s officers in the region. It was a long but worthwhile day. We received the great news that our chapter has been approved to administer a Ray Foundation Scholarship. The scholarship pays up to $10,000 for flight training to earn the Private Pilot License. We have selected Gunner Rogers as our first candidate. He came to know aviation through our Young Eagle program. He’s a high school senior in Forks and wants to be an airline captain. He has begun flight training and has already soloed. He’s been attending the chapter FAA written discussion group with other students from our last year’s Flying Start program. By the way, this year’s Flying Start program, led by David Woodcock, will be at Fairchild conference room on Saturday, May 18 at 1 PM. Tell your friends and those that say they always wanted to fly to come check it out. We hope to offer Eagle Flights afterwards if we have enough volunteer pilots. You just have to be an EAA member offer an Eagle Flight. All are welcome to attend our discussion of all the ways to get into aviation. The building committee has been busy getting concepts and quotes for a possible clubhouse. There should be a “concrete” proposal to the membership in the near future. Once we know the costs, we will start fundraising to make it a reality. One of the fundraisers we’re planning is a multi chapter poker run later this summer. I hope you are able to attend Barry Halsted‘s presentation on the restoration of his PA 11 on Saturday, March 30 at our monthly gathering. It will start off at 09:30 a.m. with another delicious breakfast. Having fun with airplanes! Ray

Ray is in there somewhere…. Sign reads: FAA Airport Traffic Control Tower – Skwentna, Alaska

MEMBERSHIP REPORT – ERIK PETERSEN Hello EAA 430 members! We are 88 members strong, 18 are lapsed (Tracy is in the process of contacting you), and we have a yearlong sliding window of 14 new members. Attached to the Newsletter email is a link to the membership list. If you didn’t get the email, send a request to membership@eaa430.org and I’ll get a list to you. Please review your membership record. Is the email and phone number correct? We will be working with Communications to scrub the list. Did you sell an airplane and/or buy another? Send us the make, model and tail numbers to add to your record. This is also a good time to review your badge, still have it? Is your badge information correct and current? If “no” to either of those questions, send email to membership@eaa430.org and get $10 to our treasurer, Tracy Halsted via email at treasurer@eaa430.org. Haven’t received your badge yet? It will be shortly, I’m getting ready to do a badge order. New members, look for email from me with regards to learning more about you and including your story in upcoming newsletters. Blue skies and tailwinds! -ejp MARCH FLYOUT – BARRY HALSTED

Tacoma Narrows Flyout The morning of March 14 presented us with clear skies and little wind. Visibility on the way to the Tacoma Narrows airport in Gig Harbor was perfect for our flyout – all the mountains were brilliant white with the recent snow. Four airplanes brought Richard and Mary Ann Howell, Cenk Özer with Linda-Ann Priddle, Ray Ballantyne with Barry Halsted, Tim Alentiev, and one car brought Sid and Tricia Vandiver! Tim was the first to arrive in his RV-10 (as usual) and the rest of us were close behind. We all enjoyed a nice lunch and watched numerous airplanes land and take off runway 35. Following lunch we got together by the RV-4 that Cenk purchased recently for more photos, then left for our various destinations. For those of us flying, the skies were just as clear as earlier and the water and mountain views will remain with us for a long time! Barry

BOARD AND DIRECTORS 2023 Chapter Phone Toll free 877-EAA-0430 (877-322-0430) Position Name Phone Ext Email Address President Ray Ballantyne 1 president@eaa430.org Vice-President Rick Vaux 2 vicepresident@eaa430.org Secretary Richard Howell 3 secretary@eaa430.org Treasurer Tracy Halsted 4 treasurer@eaa430.org Class II Directors Programs No Candidate 5 programs@eaa430.org Membership Erik Petersen 6 membership@eaa430.org Newsletter Elisa Petersen 7 newsletter@eaa430.org Scholarship David Miller 8 s cholarship@eaa430.org Young Eagles Bud Davies 9 youngeagles@eaa430.org VMC/IMC Harry Cook vmc@eaa430.org Tool Crib Rick Stoffel toolcrib@eaa430.org Web Editor Andy Sallee webeditor@eaa430.org Build-n-Fly Need Project leader build-n-fly@eaa430.org Communications Scott Fitzgerald communications@eaa430.org Fly-Out Barry Halsted Tech Advisor Harry Cook techhc@eaa430.org Tech Advisor Barry Halstead techbh@eaa430.org Tech Advisor Ernie Hansen techeh@eaa430.org Tech Advisor Rick Vaux techrv@eaa430.org