It’s almost time for our annual club meeting to cover general business and officer elections. Over dinner, we’ll have a chance to meet the many new members that joined this year, provide an overall update on the club and our financials, discuss what we’ve accomplished over the last year, hold officer elections, discuss plans for the future, and discuss other business that you wish to bring up.
The Vice-President and Secretary positions expire in January, so elections will be held for these positions. If you have interest in serving on the Board, please contact any of the board members for more information on these positions: Isaac Mosgrove (President), Simon Hayes (Vice-President), Joan Johnson (Treasurer), Alan Lasneski (Secretary), Al Gray (Safety & Maintenance), Chris Eriksson (Chief Pilot).
If you know of special topics, proposals, or concerns that you’d like to discuss, please contact Isaac so that we can be sure that they are on the agenda. We look forward to recapping the accomplishments of this past year and to look ahead to further improvements for the future. This year’s meeting will be at 6:00 pm, Wednesday, January 25th at La Margarita Express, 515 Chemeketa St NE (members pay for their own orders).

Has it been a while since you have flown at night? Want to get some additional night experience or bring your night passenger currency current? Depending on the weather we will either stay local or fly someplace within 50-100 miles and grab a crew car or local transportation to a nearby restaurant. Possible destinations could include KONP, KHIO, KCLS, or KEUG. If we must stay local, we will fly to S12 and walk to the grille at the North end of the airport. Either way we’ll get three full stop landings completed. Reserve Friday February 10th and Saturday February 11th as a backup. Plan for an 18:00 departure.

Quarterly club meetings are held with the Board in order to provide members more opportunities to ask questions, make suggestions, raise concerns, and have increased visibility into the status and workings of the club. This is your club, so the Board wants to make sure you are aware of what is happening throughout the year. The quarterly meetings will be held on the 2nd Tuesday of the 2nd month each quarter at 7:00 PM in the flight planning room.

It’s not Oshkosh or Sun ’n Fun, but a fun event to walk around and talk with aviation vendors (and get free swag). There are also several aviation accessory vendors on site so if you need to update any of your pilot accessories, those can usually be had at a discount. The plan is to fly into Pierce County Airport (KPLU) on Saturday or Sunday based on the best weather day and take the FBO shuttle over to the event.

On Saturday March 18th, we’ll fly to KVUO and walk across the airport property to the Pearson Air Museum to view some early 20th century aviation artifacts and other flying machines. Afterwards, there are a few lunch options within a 20-minute walk of the airport. The challenging aspect of getting into Pearson Field is that the KPDX class ’C’ airspace sits just above the traffic pattern altitude at KVUO, and the airport is governed by special air traffic rules part 93. Be sure to brush up on your ATC radio work and review CFR 93.161-163.

It has been a few years since we’ve been able to have dinner with the Salem Tower, and we are excited to get to reinstate this annual event. Don Conrad from Salem ATC will be joining us on March 21st for dinner at 6:00 pm at Lum-Yuen Restaurant (3190 Portland Rd NE). Don will be there to introduce himself and to have a general Q&A session. This is a great opportunity to continue to strengthen our relationship with the tower, to learn how we can work better with the tower, and to make sure we are doing what they want to make the airspace a friendly and safe place. The tower is looking forward to finally getting to meet the many people that they talk with on the radio!
This is highly recommended for everyone. Please RSVP to Isaac so he can estimate the seats needed.

Quarterly club meetings are held with the Board in order to provide members more opportunities to ask questions, make suggestions, raise concerns, and have increased visibility into the status and workings of the club. This is your club, so the Board wants to make sure you are aware of what is happening throughout the year. The quarterly meetings will be held on the 2nd Tuesday of the 2nd month each quarter at 7:00 PM in the flight planning room.

We have planned our annual Strawberry Shortcake and BBQ event for Saturday, June 17th, weather permitting! Please bring your choice of meat for your family and a salad or main dish to share in the potluck. The club will provide beverages and strawberry shortcake for everyone.

We'll start the event at 12pm, with the grilling starting at 1pm. Bring your family and friends to enjoy an afternoon at the hangars! We’ll also invite the Tower so we can get a chance to visit with some of our controllers.

This event is BYOC (Bring Your Own Chair). It would be helpful – but isn't required – to RSVP to Isaac Mosgrove so that we can plan enough beverages and strawberry shortcake.

Keep an eye on your emails in case the schedule changes (we need the fresh strawberries to be ready and nice weather)!

On June 24th we’ll fly to Cottage Grove (61S) to attend the ninth annual Wings & Wheels event. We plan to leave Salem at 9am; the event starts at 10am.

On July 22nd we’ll fly to Crescent Lake (5S2). Hopefully it will be a nice day for a trip across the mountains. We’ll leave from KSLE at 9am to get an early afternoon departure from 5S2 to beat the heat and possible density altitude. There are a couple of food options near 5S2 and we’ll grab a bite. But please bring a snack just in case!

Quarterly club meetings are held with the Board in order to provide members more opportunities to ask questions, make suggestions, raise concerns, and have increased visibility into the status and workings of the club. This is your club, so the Board wants to make sure you are aware of what is happening throughout the year. The quarterly meetings will be held on the 2nd Tuesday of the 2nd month each quarter at 7:00 PM in the flight planning room.

This year’s Annual Jordan Dinner Cruise-In & Fly-In will be held September 24, 2023 from 10:30 am – 3:00 pm at Our Lady of Lourdes Church in Scio. This event is a ton of fun to fly into with lots of airplanes, cars, vendors, activities, kid games, and good food. Plus, you get to land on grass! A few years ago there were nearly 100 airplanes and 500+ cars.

The all you can eat dinner (chicken, rolls, noodles, potatoes & gravy, green beans, coleslaw, and dessert) is $20 (adults), $5 (children 6-10), and free for kids 5 and under. There are only 2000 meal tickets, which can be purchased in advance by contacting the church at 503-394-2437.

Address: 39043 Jordan Rd., Scio
Airport: Gillette Field (OR51)
Runway: 8/26, Wide Grass Runway 2800’ Long, Powerlines – East End
Traffic Pattern: Left-hand
Unicom: 122.9
Elevation: 735
GPS Coordinates: N 44° 43.228’ W 122° 41.753’

On Saturday October 28th, we’ll fly to Ken Jernstedt Airport (4S2) in Hood River to visit Western Antique Aeroplane and Automobile Museum (WAAAM) and grab some lunch. We’ll plan to leave around 9:30am. An article in the August 2022 newsletter has some more information on the airport and museum.

Please plan to be at the November 14th quarterly membership meeting. This meeting will be held at the Airport Terminal so that we can begin the training and badging process that is required to meet the new airport security requirements. For club members’ convenience, the current plan is to meet at the Airport Terminal at 7pm on Tuesday, November 14th to begin the badging process.

Quarterly club meetings are held with the Board in order to provide members more opportunities to ask questions, make suggestions, raise concerns, and have increased visibility into the status and workings of the club. This is your club, so the Board wants to make sure you are aware of what is happening throughout the year.

Joan and Vern have graciously agreed to host the party, starting at 6:00 PM on Saturday, December 9th. In order to have enough food for everyone, each member is asked to bring either a main dish or salad, and a small dessert to share. The club will provide meat and some fixings. We’ll also do a gift exchange, so bring a fun gift in the $10-20 range (aviation gifts are always fun). Bring your family or friends for a fun evening together.
This is a great time to see old friends and to meet some of our newer members. Please RSVP to Isaac by December 3rd so that we can get the meat and seating plans finalized. Also, please let Isaac know if you can volunteer to help clean up after the party. Feel free to text or email Isaac or Joan if you have questions.