EAA 555 November 2016 Minutes
EAA 555 November 2016 Minutes
Meeting called to order by Wes Baker
New members or guests were reported : John Henpfling is a retired pharmacist retired from Illinois . Owned a Cessna 182 and flew it all up and down the central United States . He sold the 182 in the Midwest and moved out here a few weeks ago . He was informed of the monthly meetings we have and so here he is . He would like to start flying again since he hasn ' t flown for a while . He needs to pass the physical to renew his license .
A second new member is Mr . Ron Ross . In 1997 he became interested in flying and joined the EAA . Moved here in 2014 and was working at WSMR . He is interested in building and also in what we are building and flying .
Jonathon Martel , one of our newest members , also attended .
Hangar Status : Carl reports that we have a bad heater on the ceiling . Earl and I are thinking about what might be wrong . Other things are going OK . Wes : “ I had a guy call about the red Mooney and I gave him your number . It was a guy who was interested in buying it .“
The story on the Glasair : An A & P is ready to remove the motor and send it back . Spokane International is making him do a full background check with fingerprints and all on him . That is going to take two more weeks while they charge me $ 280 a month hangar rent .
Ken on website : Nothing to report .
Waiex Project : With great effort we have the canopy just about done . It was a tremendous pain in the neck . There was a lot of stuff that needed to be built to move the trim system around and that is all in . Bill has the battery box built . We are starting on the cowling . Baffle kits are ordered . We are ready to order the prop . The panel will be cut as soon as the electronics show up . We are talking to a DAR about registration . And the wings will go back on soon . Selling it is the next step . A question was asked if it was OK for a chapter to own an airworthy aircraft . Maybe we can get some exception for that or maybe it is not really the requirement they say it is . This is not clearly spelled out and we need to get someone in the national organization to clarify this for us . with us . If he is here tomorrow , we can ask him to help on that , I thing he will .
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