Past Events - 2023

January 4th 2023 - Wednesday 7:00 PM
Board Meeting

Where: Las Margaritas

Board Meeting Join us at Las Margaritas Mexican & Italian Restaurant at 541 W Dimond Blvd (on the north side of Dimond between Arctic and C Streets). When you walk in, turn left into the front room that is separated from the main dining area and we'll be on the right. So come, get your margarita and nachos and we will talk about aviation and maybe do some Chapter business. As always, all Chapter 42 members are invited and encouraged to attend.

Sunset at 15:59

January 14th 2023 - Saturday 9:30 AM
Chapter Breakfast

Where: Kava’s Pancake House at 100 Muldoon Rd.

Breakfast Our monthly Saturday breakfast is at Kava’s Pancake House at 100 Muldoon Rd. Great food and great conversation. See you there!

Sunset at 16:21

January 24th 2023 - Tuesday 7:00 PM
Chapter Meeting

Where: Alaska Aviation Museum, 4721 Aircraft Dr, Anchorage

Chuck Hosack will host at the Alaska Aviation Museum to bring us up to speed on restoring the Noorduyn Norseman.

More details about the museum's Norseman

This is what it looked like in 2017.

Noorduyn Norseman

Sunset at 16:47

January 24th 2023 - Tuesday 7:00 PM
January Meeting at the Alaska Aviation Museum

Chuck hosted our January meeting at the Alaska Aviation Museum. He briefed us on the Museum's project to restore this Norseman for static display, along with the Alaska history of this aircraft. Lars added to the presentation with his own experiences flying other Norseman aircraft.

18 were in attendance and had a wonderful time. We subsequently voted to contribute $500 to the project.

Chuck invited EAA members to come out to help with this project on weekdays.

The Director of the Eagle River Boys and Girls Club visited with her colleague, Jayden and recruited volunteers for this year's annual Summer Solstice Young Eagles Rally at Birchwood Airport.

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Sunset at 16:47

February 1st 2023 - Wednesday 7:00 PM
Board Meeting

Where: Las Margaritas

Board Meeting Join us at Las Margaritas Mexican & Italian Restaurant at 541 W Dimond Blvd (on the north side of Dimond between Arctic and C Streets). When you walk in, turn left into the front room that is separated from the main dining area and we'll be on the right. So come, get your margarita and nachos and we will talk about aviation and maybe do some Chapter business. As always, all Chapter 42 members are invited and encouraged to attend.

Sunset at 17:09

February 11th 2023 - Saturday 9:30 AM
Chapter Breakfast

Where: Kava’s Pancake House at 100 Muldoon Rd.

Breakfast Our monthly Saturday breakfast get-together is at Kava’s Pancake House at 100 Muldoon Rd. Great food and great conversation. See you there!

Sunset at 17:37

February 15th 2023 - Wednesday 7:22 PM
Saturday Morning Breakfast Fly-Out each month

A proposal to re-establish a Chapter 42 tradition – a Saturday Morning Breakfast Fly-Out each month, following the normal 4th Tuesday night Chapter meeting.

Initiated in the early 1980’s, a different/interesting location for a group Breakfast Fly-Out was selected each month at the Chapter meeting. Weather forecasts, field conditions, distance to the restaurant and food quality were considered.

Airplane owner/participants volunteered their open seats and interested Chapter members made reservations to ride along. Sometimes the PAX got a little cruise stick time. Sometimes PAX rode back in a different plane. Always, the cost of fuel was shared equally by pilot and PAX.

This was one of our most popular Chapter activities.

Winter operations on skis can be considered, as well as summer operations on floats. How many Chapter members have airplanes with these capabilities?

I recall favorite Fly Out destinations included Kenai, Talkeetna, Skwentna, Sheep Mountain, Eureka, and the old Wasilla Airport behind the strip mall on Parks Hwy (it’s gone now).

Of course, there are probably many more now available, including private airstrips, near a good restaurant.

Maybe you know a great place to go?
Contact:

Jim Moss:
T: (907) 243-5151
M: (520) 440-2191
email: james@northside-aviation.com

-or-
Scott McEwen
M: (303) 895-5058
email: wsmcewen@gmail.com

Sunset at 17:48

February 28th 2023 - Tuesday 7:00 PM
Chapter Meeting

Where: Bernie Willis' home - Wasilla

For our February meeting Bernie will show his PA-18 and discuss pre-covering thoughts.

Claude also discuss ELT installations.

Address: 1501 S. Sylvan Rd Wasilla, AK 99654
About 1 hour from Merrill Field. (But well worth the drive!)
From the Parks Highway Take Sylvan Rd. south at the intersection with Pittman Rd. (which goes north).
Scroll down for maps to his home.

February 2023 Meeting
Bernie's PA-18 - ready for cover.



February 2023 Meeting
Map to Bernie's property from Anchorage.


February 2023 Meeting
Map to Bernie's property from The Parks Highway.



February 2023 Meeting
Map to Bernie's property.

Sunset at 18:24

February 28th 2023 - Tuesday 7:00 PM
February Meeting at Bernie's

Bernie was again the consummate host at his marvelous hangar. He sugared us up with coffee and home-made cookies, expanded our minds with marvelous "Bernie-ventions" (fuel line visual flow gauge, raisable ski dollys, etc.), and sent us off with solutions to nagging problems. In addition, Claude explained radio ground planes and how to test standing waves and signal strength. Tom showed a form he used for fabricating a fuselage-strengthening attach point for his tail wheel. It was a great night for the 14 of us.
--Scott McEwen

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Sunset at 18:24

March 1st 2023 - Wednesday 7:00 PM
Board Meeting

Where: Las Margaritas

Board Meeting Join us at Las Margaritas Mexican & Italian Restaurant at 541 W Dimond Blvd (on the north side of Dimond between Arctic and C Streets). When you walk in, turn left into the front room that is separated from the main dining area and we'll be on the right. So come, get your margarita and nachos and we will talk about aviation and maybe do some Chapter business. As always, all Chapter 42 members are invited and encouraged to attend.

Sunset at 18:26

March 11th 2023 - Saturday 9:30 AM
Chapter Breakfast Get-Together

Where: Kava’s Pancake House at 100 Muldoon Rd.

Breakfast Our monthly Saturday breakfast get-together is at Kava’s Pancake House at 100 Muldoon Rd. Great food and great conversation. See you there!

Sunset at 18:53

March 28th 2023 - Tuesday 7:00 PM
Chapter Meeting

Where: Alaska Airmen's Association Bldg, Lake Hood

Steve Novak will provide hands-on ForeFlight training at our March meeting. He is bringing 20 iPads for those who would like to follow along.

Steve is currently the Aviation Instructor at Mat-Su Career and Technical High School. He was Pilot and Training Manager at Guardian Flight for 8 years, serving as Assistant Chief Pilot for 3 of those years. He piloted at Era Aviation for 12 years before his time at Guardian.

Steve will also provide a project update regarding the RV-12iS build underway by students of his Airframes course. See https://alaskaairmen.org/get-involved-in-aviation-workforce-development/

Sunset at 20:36