EXPERIMENTAL AIRCRAFT ASSOCIATION and
OROVILLE
FOUNDATION OF FLIGHT
1112 Wes Barrett Lane, Oroville, CA 95965, USA
Phone 530-533-8303 Fax 530-534-6244
Oroville
EAA Chapter 1112
and
Oroville
Foundation of Flight
General
Membership Meeting
Minutes
April 16,
2008
The meeting was opened by President,
Steve Tenneson, at 1907 PDT, in the OFOF Dan Cook Briefing Hut.
Treasurer's Report - George Frazier
gave the following status of the treasuries:
EAA Checking -
$589.49
OFOF Checking
- $355.65
OFOF Savings -
$1087.28
Cash - $50
Secretary's Report - Joe Cook
announced that the minutes of the April 9 Board of Directors Meeting
have been published via email. Publication on the website remains
to be accomplished (been working on taxes :-( ).
Old Business -
It was noted that Bob Foster was ill
and not present to update his efforts to close out the fork lift
repair donation collection.
I was again related that the chapter
would have no function at the Oroville Feather Fiesta Days on May
10th. The Eagles will provide an early breakfast.
New Business -
Earl Hodges noted that Susan
McKune had contacted regarding the Ranchaero Airport Vintage Fiesta -
Saturday, April 26th.
It was voted to have another Yard Sale
- It will be held May 3 -
Opening at 6 am for the early birds. We will try
to sell the planer, small table
saw, belt sander (out by the tractor), electric drills, golf
balls, et al.
Collings Foundations Tour - The
California dates for this years Collings Tour were reviewed. They
will have the B-17, B-24 and B-25 available for walk through tours and
flights. The closest stop to Oroville will be McClelland Field in
Sac., May 30-June 2.
Sun 'n Fun - Some of the
announcements and events from S'nF were reviewed.
Meeting Adjourned, 19:30 PDT
Respectfully submitted,
Joe Cook
Sec. EAA 1112 and OFOF
After the meeting and while awaiting
the start of the Oroville Sport Pilot meeting, Joe provided a
presentation of the movie trailer for Gray Eagles, a project of the
Gray Eagles Foundation to provide CD's to schools throughout the
country to portray a little of the flying history of WWII and one pilot
and one airplane.
http://www.grayeagles.org/video.htm
Next Meeting - Board of Directors, 5/7
at the Hut, 7 pm.
Oroville
EAA Chapter 1112
and
Oroville
Foundation of Flight
Board of
Directors Meeting
Minutes
April, 9,
2008
The meeting was
opened at 1910 PDT by President, Steve Tenneson, at the OFOF Briefing
Hut
Treasurer's Report
- George Frazier presented the status of the treasury as follows:
EAA Checking - $589.49
OFOF Checking - $911.65
OFOF Savings - $1084.72
Cash $50.00
There were 9 people served at the March Fly-In breakfast. Looking
forward to a better April turnout!
Secretary's Report
- Joe Cook reported that the minutes of the March General
Membership Meeting have been published via email and on
the website.
Moved and approved
to accept as published.
As Webmaster, he
also reported that the Calendar has been updated to reflect the fact
that we are not presenting the Chapter 1112 Annual Fly-In this
year. We will be having our May Fly-In Pancake Breakfast
on May 17, as scheduled from 8-10 am.
Old Business -
The Feather Fiesta
Days committee has decided not to take us up on the
offer to provide an early EAA breakfast on parade day (5/10).
They have activated the Eagles to get theirs going early enough to
provide the desired service for the early bird car display group.
Bob Foster found his
list of the pledged donors for the forklift repair.
Everybody who pledged has contributed except two, who will be followed
up with.
New Business -
Grounds Keeper
Report - Joe Cook presented a status report on efforts to cut down
weeds, move the remainder of the cottonwood windfall to the burn pile
with the forklift, and the mowing of the grounds and
taxiway. Bob Foster revealed he has also done a job of
Roundup application on the weeds and will do further work on the
taxiway margins. The sprinkler water timer has been turned
on and the operation of the system verified. Some
repair was necessary on the wiring at the valve for the Donors
Wall system and has been accomplished.
Some
Vari-eze parts have been offered for donation by Terry
Hansen. It was voted to accept them, including a Cleveland brake
caliper that Bob Foster felt would be usable.
Howard Fairbanks -
Howie has collected the "Allison" parts from the donor in
Paradise - doesn't know what they are such that they could be
offered on eBay. Has at least one new looking connecting
rod. Looking for
someone (John Burg, or Don Ramsey?) to identify the parts
adequately. Action - Howie
EAA Major
Achievement Award. - It was voted to submit George Frazier, Lisa and
Mariah, for the 'EAA and Chapter Dedication and Service Award' for
their past and ongoing efforts with the Fly-In Breakfast. No
action was initiated for the other possible awards.
Steve announced the
Collings Foundation, "Wings of Freedom Tour 2008" event for
California with an article in the Sac Bee. The Sacramento dates
are 5/30-6/2 at McClellan Airfield (per my flyer). This year
they have the usual B-17 and B-24, and the B-25 (that I
flew on last year). B-17 and B-24 go for
$425 donation. B-25, $400 or $325 depending on
location. Contrary to our discussion, the P-51 won't be available
at Sac. (per the website www.cfnd.org
)
Joe announced
that our EAA chapter info has been submitted to a website that
provides a Flight School list for students and interested
parties. It appears that our info will not be accessible
unless one signs up as a student with the website from
around the Oroville area, in which case the flight schools and EAA
chapters in the area are linked for the student. The website is http://pilot-flight-instruction.com
if you want to check it out. It was also noted that Table
Mountain Aviation is not listed as a flight instruction facility for
the Oroville area. They have Grass Valley, Marysville, Chico, et
al, but no TMA.
Respectfully
submitted,
Joe Cook
Sec. 1112 and OFOF
Note: Next
meeting - General Membership Meeting, OFOF Hut, 4/16/08, 7 pm.
(to be followed by the Oroville Sport Pilots meeting #2).
Oroville
EAA Chapter 1112
and
Oroville
Foundation of Flight
General
Membership Meeting
Minutes
March 12,
2008
The meeting was opened by
President Steve Tenneson in the OFOF Briefing Hut at 1910 PDT.
Two guests were present, Burke Ray and Richard Ivany who were potential
members for the Oroville Sport Pilots LLC organization which had a
scheduled meeting following the Gen. Mem. meeting. We were also
honored to have Paradise members, Dave Harmacek and Ed Collins,
present.
Treasurers Report - George Frazier reported the following
status of the treasury:
EAA Checking - $559.84
OFOF Checking - $901.27
OFOF Savings - $1084.72
17 Fly-in Pancake Breakfast patrons were served at
the Feb. event.
Chapter
1112 membership is up to 17 currently.
Secretary's Report - Joe Cook reported that the
minutes of the March 5 Board of Directors meeting have been
published via email and on the website, and the website is up to
date. Moved and Approved to accept as
published.
Old Business -
Bob
Foster reported that there were still some forklift repair
fund pledges outstanding and it would be appreciated if they were
fulfilled.
Olaf Status Report - He's back home from the hospital
stay and making recovery progress from his appendectomy infection
episode.
The Feb. Hut Clean up activities were
reviewed - Pictures remain to be identified, suitably sealed and
re-posted. Action - Steve T.
More mouse poison will be put out. They have already
finished off the initial samples!
Feather Fiesta Days -
EAA breakfast participation remains to be determined. The
FFD committee will make final determination at their late March
meeting.
New Business -
Programs for future meeting - A Beale AFB presentation
was suggested.
Oshkosh - EAA handouts available
B-17 schedule was discussed
M.D. Short announced that the American Legion Durham branch would have
their annual St. Patrick's Day Corned Beef feed - Monday, 3/17/08
- Memorial Hall, downtown Durham.
OSP Overview - Joe Cook gave a brief discussion of
the status of the Oroville Sport Pilots LLC (OSP) and what was expected
to be accomplished in the meeting following the Gen. Mem.
meeting. The official incorporation as a Limited Liability Corp.
has been accepted and filed in the state of Delaware. OSP will
now accept members. The plan is to recruit 10 members for the
first aircraft. An initial deposit of $100 secures voting
rights for this first meeting at which time it will be determined what
the "buy in" price per share will be ($2500 min. expected). A
poll of the members will determine what type(s) of aircraft the members
are interested in and what features they want and don't want.
Then the search will begin in earnest. It was announced that an
OSP Yahoo group has been formed to facilitate information, reservations
and communications.
Respectfully submitted,
Joe Cook
Sec. EAA 1112 and OFOF
______________________________________________________________________
Note: Sorry these minutes are
somewhat tardy...my laptop computer crashed and went into a continuous
"boot loop" (maybe a worm). I feared I would have to do these
minutes from memory, but today (3/20) I was able to download a "boot
all disk" from the web (on my desktop computer) and was able to get
operation back to normal (altho it takes twice as long to boot up off
the CD drive. :-) ). The loss of the Chapter email list
would have been another major problem. I now have that backed up
on a thumb drive.
Oroville
EAA Chapter 1112
and
Oroville
Foundation of Flight
Board of
Directors Meeting
Minutes
March 5,
2007
The meeting was
opened by President,
Steve Tenneson, in the OFOF Briefing Hut at 1905 pst.
Treasurer's
Report - George Frazier presented the following status of the
treasury:
EAA Checking - $603.28
OFOF Checking - $901.27
OFOF Saving - $1084.72
Cash - $50
There
were 17 patrons served at the Feb. Fly-In Pancake Breakfast
Bob Foster was repaid $320 for his expenses relative to the repair
of the forklift and donated the amount back to OFOF. Thank you,
Bob!
Secretary's Report - Joe Cook reported that the minutes
of the Feb. General Membership meeting have been published via
email and on the website. And the website is up to date.
Old
Business -
Feather Fiesta Days (FFD) - Whether the EAA will be doing an early
breakfast for FFD is still an unknown. It was now disclosed
that the Eagles did, and will do, a breakfast for FFD starting
at 7 am. This apparently was not a highly advertised event in the
past. So it has been left up to the FFD organizers whether the
EAA provides an earlier breakfast, primarily for the car show people
who start parking at 5:30 am. We won't know the outcome of
that until after the next FFD organizational meeting in late March.
Hut Cleanup Day - The Hut cleanup day was accomplished on
Sat., 2/23, as scheduled. Some good work was done cleaning
up and reorganizing the south wall stuff. Also some repair
was accomplished on the bulletin board area by the desk and to
some of the thin/open spots on the south wall fabric. Outside
patching was terminated when it started raining an hour ahead of
schedule. :-) (Note: This is an after-the-fact 'Joe
Report' for the record and wasn't noted at the meeting.)
New Business -
Joe suggested that we all give some consideration to coming up with
some programs for presentation at the General Membership meeting
to add some additional interest. Also, we might consider a
renewal of the refreshment session after the meeting to encourage more
camaraderie.
It was suggested that a possible program might be an FAA Safety Seminar
from William Hill, the volunteer who does (or organizes) monthly
presentations at Redding.
End - EAA/OFOF matters
Oroville Sport Pilots - Joe reported that the official Oroville Sport
Pilots LLC incorporation papers have been approved and filed by the
state of Delaware and the physical paper is allegedly enroute to Dan
Cook.
In anticipation of having the paper in hand, we have
scheduled the first organizational meeting of OSP to occur immediately
after next week's General Membership meeting, Wed, 3/12/08 (per
approval at Gen. Mem. meeting 2/13/08). Post note - The paperwork
arrived on 3/6/08, so all is well.
Meeting Adjourned at 7:40 pm PST.
Respectfully submitted,
Joe Cook
Secretary - EAA 1112 and OFOF
Oroville
EAA Chapter 1112
and
Oroville
Foundation of Flight
General
Membership Meeting
Minutes
February
13, 2008
The meeting was
opened at 1905 pst by President, Steve Tenneson, at the OFOF
Briefing Hut, Oroville Muni Airport (KOVE).
Treasurer's Report -
George Frazier reported on the following status of the treasury:
EAA Checking - $478.28
OFOFO Checking - $921.27
OFOF Savings - $884.72
Cash - $50
There were 20 Breakfasts served at the January Fly-In breakfast.
Secretary's Report
- Joe Cook reported that the minutes of the Feb. 6th BOD meeting
have been published via email and on the website. The
minutes of the Annual Meeting of the Oroville Foundation of Flight have
been published on the website and via email. The website
has been updated with current officers, a 2008 calendar and Bob
Foster's GP4 project has been updated with pix taken at his birthday
party in November. Check them out at
Old Business -
Forklift - The forklift repair has been completed at a cost of $500
(considerably more than our original estimate). In addition Bob
Foster expended some $320 on transport getting it to the shop and
returned. It was voted to repay $320.00 to Bob for his out of
pocket expenses getting the forklift transported. So our "$100"
repair job ended up costing us $820. But we now have a forklift
that doesn't leak fluid but also most other systems (like the
brake/clutch) work also (at the moment).
New Business -
Feather Fiesta Days May 9-10 - Geo. report - The idea of EAA doing an
early breakfast as a funds raiser was generally
approved. - The possible site has been changed to
the Senior Citizen's
Center - Action to actually get approval to use the SCC - FFD Committee
It was decided to not attempt to organize a Fly-In this
year. The last several years the attendance had been lacking in
spite of reasonable efforts at advertising. That being the case we will
not enter a float in the parade and will save that entry fee also.
Clean-Up day - Date
- It was voted to have a Hut Clean Up Day on Sat., 2/23/08, starting at
8 am. Tasks will include organizing the workbenches, clean up and
repairing things damaged by the rain/wind, and lighting off the Burn Piles if they are dry enough.
Ed O'Neal reported
on his mishap with his Murphy Rebel - A landing gear collapsed on
landing and caused it to go off the runway. Ripped the fuselage,
end-to-end, bent the wing, and a prop strike probably damaged the
engine. He thinks it is pretty much Totaled. Insurance
appraiser was due later in the week. Both he and his wife were
uninjured.
Here's Ed's Murphy Rebel at the Chapter Fly-In of May '07.
Ed also reported
that a friend of his had a hangar available, but unerected. It
was decided that we could take it as a donation, but the economics of
erecting it for our own use still don't make sense. (See the
prior "free T-hangar" discussions). We could resell it, however.
Oroville Sport Pilots -
Joe brought up the motion, continued from the BOD meeting, asking for
approval to hold the monthly OSP meeting immediately following the
monthly General Membership Meeting. Motion approved. Joe
made
handouts for OSP available and mentioned that the final paperwork for
the OSP LLC was expected by the end of Feb.
Note: Dan has subsequently received a phone call from Delaware
stating that the LLC has been approved and filed. An email will
be sent to him confirming the same, and the paper shipped by snail
mail. So our first Oroville Sport Pilots LLC meeting will be held
next month, on 3/12/08, after the Gen Mem meeting. Also, see the
OSP website at http://home.earthlink.net/~orovillesportpilot/
Adjourned - 7:41 pm
Respectfully
submitted,
Joe Cook, Sec. 1112
and OFOF
Oroville Foundation of
Flight
Annual Meeting Minutes
January 16, 2008
The official annual
meeting was called to order by President, Olaf Gniechwitz, in the
convention center of the Gold Country Casino, Oroville, CA, at
approximately 1955 PST.
The call for Old
Business was made. There was none brought forth, normal
business having been conducted by the Board of Directors and membership
at the regular monthly meetings.
The call for
New Business was made. There was none.
The meeting was
adjourned at circa 2000 PST.
Respectfully submitted,
Joe Cook
Secretary, Oroville
Foundation of Flight
EAA
Oroville Chapter 1112
and
Oroville
Foundation of Flight
Board of
Directors Meeting
Minutes
February
6, 2008
The
meeting was opened by President, Steve Tenneson, at the OFOF Briefing
Hut at 1905 PST.
Secretary's Report - Joe Cook reported that the minutes of the
Chapter are up to date. The minutes of the Official Annual
Meeting of the Oroville Foundation of Flight, conducted January 16,
2008, in conjunction with the Installation Banquet at the Gold Country
Casino, will be out shortly. The website has been updated
with the new officers, new 2008 calendar, and the 2007 Minutes have
been archived.
Treasurers Report - George Frazier reported the following status
of the treasury:
EAA Checking - $458.28
OFOF Checking - $901.27
OFOF Savings - $884.72
Cash - $50
There was
a turnout of 20 for the Jan. Fly-In Breakfast
Old Business - None was brought forth.
New Business -
Feather Fiesta Days - George Frazier had attended the
organizational meeting for the 2008 rendition. There was interest
expressed for the EAA to possibly provide an early
morning breakfast operation. It seems the "car guys" get
there very early and there is no handy place that serves breakfast
that time of the day. There is the possibility to use the
Elks Hall kitchen facility so we wouldn't have to supply
the grill. Further investigation with the Elks, et al, will
be accomplished. Action - George.
Clean Up Day - It was suggested that we schedule a "Clean
Up Day" to reverse some the activities of Mother Nature, etc, at the
Hut. It was agreed it was necessary and would be brought up to
the general membership at next weeks Gen Mem meeting. Action -
Admin.
Oroville Sport Pilots, LLC - Joe Cook reported on
progress toward the organization of the Oroville Sport Pilots, LLC
(OSP). Dan Cook has sent in the final (hopefully) paperwork and
fees to Delaware and the final papers are expected by the end of
Feb. Joe passed out some hand outs for OSP that Dan had
generated listing some of the possible planes as listed recently on
Barnstormers and the broad outline of what we will be looking for in
terms of aircraft and financial structure.
In anticipation of the time when OSP is organized
and there is business to be conducted, Joe requested approval to hold
the OSP business meeting immediately following the EAA/OFOF General
Membership monthly meeting. It was generally agreed that that
would be acceptable and was suggested that it be brought up for group
approval at the Gen. Mem. meeting on 2/13. Action - Joe
Adjourned - 1957 PST
Respectfully submitted,
Joe Cook
Sec. 1112 and OFOF
Notes: Olaf Gneichwitz was still at the Kaiser
hospital in Roseville as of Wed. with an infection from his recent
appendectomy aftermath. He was expected back home later this week.
Bob Foster came back early from his trip to the
Philippines after becoming ill there. He was still not feeling
back to normal as of Wed.
George announced that there is an instructor,
"Dave", at Table Mountain Av. who has a Champ and will give tail
dragger instruction and endorsements (no solo), in addition to
instruction and BFRs in the TMA 172.
Oroville Foundation of
Flight
Annual Meeting Minutes
January 16, 2008
The official annual
meeting was called to order by President, Olaf Gniechwitz, in the
convention center of the Gold Country Casino, Oroville, CA, at
approximately 1955 PST.
The call for Old
Business was made. There was none brought forth, normal
business having been conducted by the Board of Directors and membership
at the regular monthly meetings.
The call for
New Business was made. There was none.
The meeting was
adjourned at circa 2000 PST.
Respectfully submitted,
Joe Cook
Secretary, Oroville
Foundation of Flight
