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EAA Chapter 60

Beloit-Janesville Chapter

MEETING MINUTES February 12, 2003

This month only new meeting place and time

Palmyra airport March 19, 2003

Meeting called to order by President Owens at 7:45 PM.

Officers present: Absent:

President: Phil Owens Co-treasurers Ken Brooks & Ed Titcomb

Vice President: Ben Nelson

Secretary: Gayle Heggie

25 members in attendance

Treasurers report given by Pres. Owens as prepared by Co-treasurers.

Our account was transferred from Parker Community Credit to First

National Bank and Trust in Roscoe, Illinois on 1-11-03. Total deposit

$6693.14. Debits in January were $232.12. Credits $10.00.

Current balance as of February 12, 2003.

Checking - - - - - - - - - - - - - - $1461.02

Cert. of Deposit - - - - - - - - - 5000.00

Cash - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 10.00

Total Assets - - $6471.02

In compliance with Wisconsin tax laws, Chapter 60 is now

recorded as a non-profit organization.

Motions carried to accept Treasurers report as read by Pres. Owens.

Secretary Heggie read minutes of January 8, 2003 meeting. Motions carried to accept as read.

OLD BUSINESS:

1) Chapter files do not contain copies of incorporation documents.

Attempt will be made by members to locate. It may be necessary to

obtain them from state or county sources.

2) Graham Smith presented $420 check as payment to Chapter for

participation at WAA Air Show in September 2003.

NEW BUSINESS:

1) Duesterbeck proposes alternate program to visiting locations of

home-builder projects. Suggestion is to have Chapter sponsored

home-built fly-in at Brodhead this June with a same day picnic.

Invitations would be extended to area EAA Chapters to gather at

Brodhead for a display of their home-builts. Brodhead Chapter 431

has given preliminary agreement to the plan. Firm response to be

given to Duesterbeck at next meeting. Tentative date is second

Saturday in June.

2) Pres. Owens looking for definite answer on request for available

pilots/planes for Young Eagle flights at Janesville.

3) Pres. Owens introduced Ultra light builder Dave who seeks advice on

riveting. Dave presented sample of his work to discuss problems.

4) March meeting change in time and place. Next Chapter meeting will

be 7:00PM March 19th at Palmyra Airport. We will have short

meeting followed with presentation by guest speaker Tom Carr. This

will be a joint session of Chapter 60 and Palmyra Chapter 1177.

5) Pres. Owens requesting unpaid members to pay $10.00 2003 dues.

6) Question to Pres. Owens. Is WAA building being sold? Answer is

unknown at this time. Tom Morgan has advised Phil Owens that

WAA will always be at some location on Janesville Airport and will

continue to provide space for Chapter 60 activities.

8:15PM. Motions carried to adjourn.

Submitted by: Gayle Heggie, Secretary

NOTES:

1) Pre-meeting announcement by Pres. Owens. A GPS mini-seminar

will be held after this meeting. Two representatives from a Rockford

Avionics firm will give a presentation, and display several of their

GPS units.

2) Guest speak Tom Carr biography:

Tom has been with WTMJ Milwaukee radio station

since 1990 as a flying reporter for traffic and news. He was active

in early years with his father as co-owner of different planes. Tom is

instrument rated in single and multi-engine aircraft. He's also a

member of the Racine EAA chapter.

Tom is married and has 12 yr. old daughter.

MARCH 19 MEETING DIRECTIONS

Road access to Paymyra:

From North ------------County E

" East -----------State 59

" South -----------County H

" West -----------State 59

" Northwest -----State 106

AIRPORT LOCATION:

Hwy 106 intersects "59" one city block West from center of town, which is

junction of "59" and "H". Airport entrance is 0.4 miles on "106" on left side of road at Northwest edge of town. Meeting takes place at second building

on right on entrance road, and can be seen from highway.

Distance from highway to meeting building is about 500 feet.

A lot of good things are happening this year with Chapter 60. last months program was a double header with GPS program from Rockford and riveting by ex – Blackhawk Tec aviation instructor Graham Smith. Both where extremely informative. If you missed these, don’t miss the upcoming program at Palmyra airport. The programs are getting better and stronger each month.

President Phil has many good people on the program committee that can offer strong programming.

(Guest speaker Tom Carr biography)

See every one March 19th at Palmyra airport. This is one week later then our normal monthly meeting time and location.

Al Draeger

NLE

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Wednesday March 19, 2003

7:30 P.M.

Palmyra airport

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