SUN LAKES AERO CLUB PUBLICITY

By: Gary L. Vacin, Publicity Director
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The following articles were published on the date indicated.

Year 2009

 

January 1

Fly-ins to Chiriaco, CA and Sky-Dive AZ at Eloy; Model airplanes will fly in our meeting room on January 19th

Year 2008

 

December 1

Speakers Ron Gillespie, Lieutenant Colonel (ret.)and Gabrielle Thorp, Lieutenant Colonel (ret); Visitation to Kitt Peak

November 1

Article in the Splash by Gary Vacin

October 1

Bio of Gabrielle Thorp, Lieutenant Colonel (ret.) with the Arizona Air National Guard (AANG),

June 1

Photo of member Gary Vacin’s Czech-made TL-2000 Sting Carbon plane;  Fall Activities schedule

May 1st

Splash article on Jon Melby, speaker at the May 19th monthly meeting

April 1st

Field trips to the Phoenix TRACON and Tower and a tour of the GossHawk military plane restoration and maintenance facility at Cass Grande.

February 1st

Craig Albright, Treasurer of the Los Amigos Chapter of the Flying Samaritans will make the presentation in lieu of Patricia Parks who is on a Nursing Doctoral Program at ASU

 

Year 2007
 

 

December 1st

Fly-in to Prescott to tour the new Flight Service Station. (FSS)

November 1st

Presentation by Lt Col Ned Linch – Speaking on experiences during a tour of duty in Iraq

October 1st

History of the Sun Lakes Aero Club

June 1st

Presentation by Russell Pankey – Former Manager of the Grand Canyon Airport

May 1st

Presentation by member Harold Thomas on the Kodiak 10 passenger turbo prop plane designed for Missions Work.

April 1st

Presentation by Lonny McClung, Captain USN (Ret) London to Sydney Air Race 2001

March 1st

Presentation by Stacey Nichols, Chandler Airport Air Traffic and Tower Manager

Unfortunately, Stacey was unable to make the meeting and member Harold Thomas spoke on the Kodiak plane.

No issue in February

No article in the Splash.  The Speaker was Capt Lonny K. McClung Ret. USN

January 1st

Presentation by Elton Dyal on the TWA-800 Crash

 

 

Year 2006

 

December 1st

Major Al Fox entertained us.  Particularly about his experiences with “Air America”

November 1st

Notice of November 15th meeting – Program Lt. Col Jake I Sorensen USAF (Retired)

October 1st

Notice of October 18th meeting – Program-  Members describing aviation experiences

June 1st

Fly-in to the Palm Springs Air Museum, CA

No Issue in May

 

April 1st

Fly-in to the Titan II Missile Museum in Green Valley, AZ

March 1st

Fly-in to March Air Force Base to visit Museum

February 1st

Field Trip to the Mars Space Facility at ASU

January 1st

Fly-In to Las Vegas to visit the Atomic Testing Museum

 

 

Year 2005

 

May 1st

Fly-In to Wickenburg to view AOPA Commander being painted

April 1st

Field trip to Rotorway March 10th

March 1st

Fly-in and Field Trip to Kitt Peak Observatory

February 1st 

B/G "Bud" Farrington awes member with Viet Nam report

January 1st

Field trip to FAA Terminal Radar Control Facility (TRACON).

 

 

Year 2004

 

December 1st

SLAC participation in CAF Fly-in commemorating Veteran's Day

November 1st

Copper State Fly-in at Phoenix Regional Airport

August 1st

Fly-in to Albuquerque to visit the Eclipse Aviation Facility

June 1st

Fly-in to Edwards AFB to visit the Flight Test Center Museum

May 1st

Field Trip to visit the Chandler Intel Plant

April 1st

Fly-in to Johnny Pew's crop dusting strip near Coolidge.  He also has another strip at Stanfield, AZ.  Johnny is the son of Member Ruth Pew.

March 1st

Field Trip to the Honeywell Facilities at Sky Harbor

February 1st

Fly-in to Sierra Vista to visit the Great Room at Kartchner Caverns

January 1st

SLAC monthly meeting held at the CAF hanger at Falcon Field

 

 

Year 2003

 

December 1st

Speech by Col. Mike Vaughn at our November, 2003 meeting

November 1st

Fly-in to Kingman for their ninth annual Air Show

June 1st

Member Russ George, Aviator of the Day, rides the CAF B-17 Bomber

May 1st

Fly-in to the Grand Canyon

April 1st

Fly-in to Copper State Fly-in at Casa Grande Airport