A Beautiful September — What’s Next?

If you are reading this, living in an area without a local EAA chapter, why not drop a line to our chapters person, Phillip Johnson, at chapters.EAACC@gmail.com and ask him for help. One good starting point is just to pin up a notice at your local airport that you plan to hold a meeting to explore the idea of starting an EAA chapter in your area. You may find that there is lots of interest if someone can help to get it going. EAA chapters are especially good at encouraging homebuilders to come out of their basements and get to know others in the area.

If you happen to live in southwest Ontario, there is a new EAA Chapter 756, which became an RAA chapter and has since returned to the EAA fold. They call themselves Kent Flying Machines, and they hold their meetings in chapter members’ houses. You can find out when and where their next meeting is going to be held by checking out their calendar.

As you will notice in Raquel’s “From the Chair,” we’re hoping for better attendance at AirVenture next year from other Canadian organizations, especially national ones like Transport Canada, COPA, and Nav Canada. I think that there is a lot of politics happening at the moment which will have hopefully calmed down by the same event next year, although as I mentioned last month, there was actually a very good Canadian attendance at AirVenture 2025, if you ignore the absence of the other organizations. As usual, your committee is working on making AirVenture 2026 even better.

For those of you unable or unwilling to attend, all I can say is that there wasn’t a single negative comment in the Canadian tent that I heard, but there were several apologies and there were many Americans who came to learn about flying to and from Canada.

I’d especially like to thank stalwart Mike Davenport for his first of three articles about scratchbuilt aircraft in the Vancouver area. Our chapters guru, Phillip Johnson, produced a great article about his Subaru-powered Cozy Mk IV. I’d also like to thank James Slade for his article telling us what Chapter 63 in Winnipeg has been up to, teaching kids to build and fly model aircraft. Brian King wrote us a fascinating account of his first trip to OSH as a pilot. He did it with a buddy as most sane people would!

If any of you have something to talk about, now is probably a great time to think about writing it up. As many pilots begin planning to wrap up their flying season it is also a good moment to start thinking about communicating with your fellow pilots about any projects you have in mind.

As always, please don't hesitate to contact me, Ian Brown, at newsletter.EAACC@gmail.com and I appreciate those who do. Keep sending me your newsletter submissions, and a big thank-you to those that did this month.