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January 2018
Events Calendar
May 18–19 Idaho Aviation Expo, Idaho Falls (IDA): Lots of beautiful airplanes on display in the 30,000 sq.ft. Aero Mark XL hangar, plus seminars, IAA Annual Meeting w/free lunch for IAA members, raffles, give-aways, dinner, guest speaker, and huckleberry ice cream! www.Aeromark.com. June 13–15 Aviation Career Exploration (ACE) Academy. Multiple locations. See http://aceacademy.aero. June 15–16 AOPA Regional Fly-In, Missoula, Mont. (MSO): Seminars, airplanes, town hall w/Mark Baker, party, www.AOPA.org. June 28–30 Round-Engine Roundup: [email protected]. June 27–July 1 Woman Wise AWEsome Adventures: Cascade (U70). Seminars, fly-outs, and more! [email protected].
ADS-B Raffle Coming This Winter! The Idaho Aviation Foundation (IAF) will be announcing
a date to raffle off the fully compliant ADS-B Out system which was donated by Jackson Jet at KBOI to benefit IAF’s project to rebuild Big Creek Lodge. The raffle will occur before February 15, 2018!
Jackson Jet has donated a Stratus ESG 1090 ES Transponder with built-in WAAS GPS, plus the antenna and installation for a lucky winner. Even if you have ADS-B in your airplane already, buying raffle tickets for your less fortunate pilot friends makes great gifts—and at $20 per ticket—anyone can buy a ticket (or tickets!) to support this great cause.
Tickets are on sale through www.RaffleRiver.com, then click on “Find a Raffle” at the top and type in “Big Creek”—it will bring up the ADS-B Out raffle and you can click and buy all the tickets you wish!
The Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA) Midwest/Northwest Fly-In will be in Missoula, Montana (MSO), June 15 & 16, 2018. AOPA organizes 4 regional fly-ins each year. The Missoula Fly-In will feature all the popular exhibits, seminars, aviation events, and comradery that participants have come to enjoy so much during the fly-in season. The Missoula venue offers exceptional opportunities for scenic enjoyment both on the ground and in the air. Glacier and Yellowstone national parks are within short flights’ reach of Missoula as well as many other family friendly destinations. And more! Enjoy participating in the conference as a volunteer! AOPA’s exceptionally efficient and highly organized planners have created a web site with the many volunteer opportunities: www.AOPA.org/volunteermso Don’t miss out on the variety of opportunities to enjoy this MSO Fly-In!
President’s Corner Andrew George
Ho Ho Ho...CLEAR! Oh Tis' the season of joy and merriment, shrouded in a mind-numbing INVERSION. Let's talk about the fun stuff...the parties, the food and special cold crisp days of great performance out of the planes. Recently I was able to attend both the Treasure Valley and McCall Christmas parties, and both were a
tremendously great time. The TV Chapter puts on the biggest and most prolific for raising funds that support projects statewide. Speaker Jeremy Young gave an insightful talk on the early aspects of Embry-Riddle and the Western Antique Aeroplane & Automobile Museum (WAAAM) Museum in Oregon, as he and his family were involved in the establishment of both, plus his ongoing interests such as TacAero tailwheel flight school new equipment research for aerial firefighting. The Warhawk Air Museum in Nampa hosted the event (Editor’s Note: Many thanks again to John & Sue Paul for hosting—see the article on page 4 about the museum’s P-40s). We had great entertainment from the auctioneer, Jim Metzger. He's a show all to himself...Great Job. Of course, the most important people there that night were you, the members, and if you couldn’t attend, there is always next year. You don't have to be a TV Chapter member, as it is open to all. I don’t know the final count, but I know a lot of money was raised. These funds are directly responsible for helping to fund the Bike Shed program statewide as well as airstrip maintenance items as they are needed. They are also used to help fund educational programs like those Rich Stowell puts together, social events like the Spring Fling and Father’s Day Fly-In with live music, and training classes like the "How to Cross the International Border to Canada," open to all members. Thanks to all the members and guests who participated and made the auction and raffle a big success.
I was able to speak for a few minutes on the accomplishments of 2017 and some of the waypoints for 2018 we will reach. We will soon upload that segment onto Facebook.
The McCall Chapter party was hosted by the recent new McCall Chapter President, Rob Tucker. It was a lovely and intimate event, with a potluck spread to die for. It’s always great to be able to talk to members from all over the state and hear what's important and on their minds. McCall has been doing a great job this past 6 months by signing up over half of all new members throughout the state. The programs they are creating, Pocket Park, as well as Scholarship work, are outstanding.
I couldn’t get to all the events around the state, but as we come out of winter, the Skywagon will be putting some miles on it to help in all corners of Idaho.
Other activities include recent efforts to get ready for the aviation shows in the spring. We have the NWAC in Puyallup, Wash. in Feb, Montana Show in March, the Idaho Expo late spring, and the AOPA Regional Fly-In at
Missoula in June. We have a new trade show display that is fresh, exciting, and will represent our mission to the folks who attend these events. I will post pics next month of the new display for you to see.
In other news, I am establishing relationships with the gubernatorial candidates in the upcoming statewide election. It is imperative that each candidate understand how important aviation is to Idaho. For our part, we want to know whether we will have access to the new governor and a commitment from him to support our goals. It is my intention to be able to relay to you the positions of these candidates on matters that directly affect the access to public lands, the ITD in general, and the economic, tourism, and employment impact of aviation within Idaho. I have had a lot of members ask about the relationships we keep with a lot of government bodies and groups, and I will go to the top and start from there when we are faced with issues that need understanding or attention. As I meet and listen to their positions, I will report back to you on that.
If you are Facebook person, I encourage you to LIKE the IAA page, as we will have more information in that format, as well as on our website, soon.
As the WX brings about many challenges, it’s time to check our POH for cold weather procedures! Now is when we see a lot of IFR to VFR on Top conditions so it's a good time to insure your basics are up to snuff for you instrument pilots. If you land at a snowy/icy field, watch your taxi speed, as she can get away from you quickly. And as a little tip, put a hammer and tiedowns in your plane, as most ropes and/or chains at fields will be frozen to the ground. The rings in the pavement will usually be buried in a pool of ice that needs to be broken out to use. It’s the holiday season and I am wishing all of you a very
Safe and Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Be safe, fly smart! 208-794-4480 [email protected]
ATTENTION ALL READERS! PLEASE CALL YOUR U.S. REPRESENTATIVE
TODAY AND TELL HIM OR HER YOU OPPOSE H.R. 2997, THE BILL TO
PRIVATIZE ATC. THIS IS IMPORTANT! MIKE SIMPSON 202-225-5531
RAUL LABRADOR 202-225-6611 OUTSIDE IDAHO:
www.House.gov/representatives/find/ One of our IAA members contacted Rep. Mike Simpson and received a letter in reply that referred to H.R. 2997 as “reducing red tape in the FAA’s certification process and improving safety and the flying experience for consumers and provide for airport infrastructure improvements across the country.”
We interpret his response as favoring privatization. Mr. Simpson needs to hear from every pilot in Idaho!
YOUR Representative may be just as misinformed. Don’t let this go without letting your Representative know
what you think!
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District 2 – Lewiston/Moscow
Bill Ables
Like so many pilots here in the Pacific Northwest, the inversion has caused us to keep our aircraft in the hangar, even though we know the blue sky is just a few hundred feet above. But, our decision-making process does the right thing and tells us to keep it right there and just tinker on it and think about the places it has been
and will soon take you, your friends, and family. Be glad you’re lucky enough to do that. I’ve been without an airplane in my hangar since late October and I’m having withdrawals. No, I didn’t ding it up and it’s in good hands at SP Aircraft at the Boise airport, but I’ll sure be glad to get O4D back. I got an encouraging email the other day from Todd at SP saying it should be done in early January. Now I’m a happy camper, as I got a “date” to hang my hat on! I’ll tell you the “rest of the story” when I see you at one of the Canyon airstrips this winter.
Speaking of the Canyon airstrips, Cache Creek, Dug Bar, Big Bar, and Temperance Creek are in good shape and are getting consistent use. A good friend of mine, Doug Ferguson, must have felt sorry for me, as he knows about my “missing” aircraft. He called me up the other day (pre-inversion) and offered to stop on his way to the Canyon and pick me up. We had a great flight, but we found out that other things use our airstrips (horses & mules at Dug Bar) so be careful out there and know what your aircraft can and can’t do. Thanks Doug, you’re a good pilot, fellow!
With the higher-elevation airstrips being snowed in now, be mindful that the Canyon airstrips mentioned above will have more aircraft using them this time of year, especially on good VFR days. Knowing this, we should all practice good etiquette while enjoying our airstrips, so others can do the same and we can all do it safely. Simple things like turning so we don’t blast parked aircraft, parking off the airstrip (if possible) so another aircraft can make a safe landing, transmitting on the proper channel (usually 122.9 in the backcountry) without extra chit-chat, monitor 122.8 if possible, and when giving a position report, give your location, altitude, and direction of travel. Trust me, you’re not the only aircraft out there!
Do you believe it’s almost Christmas...where have the summer and fall gone? But, I must admit I sure do enjoy the December smells of Judy’s cookie and sweet bread baking and watching her transform our home into a cozy abode that will soon entertain our children and grand- children when they come to visit. I drove our 4-wheeler up on the slope behind our house today and cut a Christmas tree that Judy, I and the grandkids had located earlier this fall on an outing. The smell of that fresh-cut Christmas tree defined the season. Have a Wonderful and Merry
Christmas with your Family and Friends! Fly safe and watch those canyon winds, Bill Ables
Gary Ferguson and his plane in Hells Canyon Photo by Bill Ables
Horses and mules on the runway at Dug Bar Photo by Bill Ables
Yeah, girls fly too! Amber Phillips over North Idaho…who’s that out the window? Photo by Amber Phillips
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District 4 – Magic Valley
Kerry Requa
Here we are in the beginning days of winter, yet all the foggy days in the last few weeks make it seem as if we are in the middle of winter. I hope the foggy days break soon so we can fly and enjoy the cold air and increase in aircraft performance. I always marvel at the changes the cold air makes in power and
performance. Winter flying has always been something I enjoy. The down side is it’s cold, and that cold takes a toll on us as humans and can take a toll on the airplane as well. We all hear about cold starts and the damage that can be done to an engine during the initial start and warm up. Pay attention to the manual and make sure you have the correct oil and use the proper procedures for the cold start to minimize the wear and tear that happens. If you fly often in the winter months you need to preheat; don't let repetitive cold starts damage your engine. I have a Tanis engine heater and I know that even in the coldest temperatures, a two-hour preheat will bring the engine to a temperature that I do not worry about cold start damage. Other areas of concern that we all need to pay attention to in winter flying are not often discussed. Sure, we all know to be prepared and have items that may be needed if you have an emergency and get stranded away from home. I want us to think about the airplane itself; cold temperatures can be hard on many things. Tire pressure is the first thing to look at. If you have not checked your tire pressure since June you will more than likely need to adjust the tire pressure. All the components of an airplane suffer in cold temperatures; the plastics become more brittle, things change in the way they fit together, cables and pulleys don't move as freely, other fluids can become stiff and make things feel different. The fluids are designed to work in a wide temperature range, but I can assure you they have different characteristics in extreme cold. The next time you go out in the cold, take notice of how it feels to taxi. I can always feel more bumps in the taxiway and runway when it’s cold. Talk to your mechanic and ask what extra precautions you can take to make cold starts easier and less damaging to your engine. And pull out the aircraft manual and see what else you can do to ensure you are addressing all the things you need to do for your airplane in cold weather operations. Don't be afraid to go out and fly in the cold. Make sure you are prepared, and the airplane is configured properly so you can get the most in performance and be confident you have taken the steps to
do it right. Tailwinds, Kerry Requa Looking for travel ideas? You can find over 90 travel articles for pilots here: www.AOPA.org/news-and-media/articles-by-author/crista-videriksen-worthy Three new stories each week! Page 4
District 6 – Idaho Falls/Salmon
Mike Hart
They say an airplane can’t be certified until the weight of the paperwork is equal to the weight of the aircraft. The same is probably true about airports—they just weigh more. In Idaho Falls, the airport layout plan has been progressing with a well-attended meeting in November. There is
some good news and bad news. The good news is that the FAA has interpreted that it authorized the rebuilding of Runway 17/35 years before, and therefore they own the maintenance cost (including the cost of snow removal). That is good news because the city of Idaho Falls had been picking up the snow removal cost since 2010. On the downside, there are new issues related to night operations of Runway 17/35, due to the possible conflict of planes departing Runway 35 and Runway 02. This of course resolves itself through good radio communication, but there have been two planes announcing they were rolling at the same time, and one of them had to abort. Hopefully there will be solutions identified in the new runway planning study, which will be out for public comment circa February. If you want to keep track of developments, visit the Runway 17-35 Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/RWY1735/ or send an email to Roger Blew, [email protected], to get on a mailing list.
The Salmon-Challis National Forest Plan revision team released the Draft Assessment and Preliminary Needs for Change Statement this November. The Needs for Change Statement now includes aviation thanks to the participation of aviators at these public meetings. The previous, decades-old forest plan was silent about aviation assets and the value of aviation. The acknowledgment that there are airstrips in the Salmon Challis National Forest that are regularly used for access, both as trailheads and as an end in themselves, is a major victory. The comment period on the Need for Change Statement has been extended to January 4, 2018. If you want to have a discussion about what this forest plan revision means to you, please contact team leader Josh Milligan at (208) 756-5560 or [email protected].
If you get AOPA Pilot magazine, there is a great article on the Hoff Family on page 78 of the January 2018 issue. It is worth a read. Another major score was having the Idaho Falls 2017 Airshow “Extreme Blue Thunder” acknowledged as the Blue Angel’s air show of the year for the 2017 show season. Congrats to the team of volunteers who made the show possible.
In terms of flying, I have been loving my job with Gem Air, flying packages out of SLC into Idaho communities of Salmon, Challis, Burley, and Pocatello. It has been a great experience flying in the busy airspace of SLC, flying at night and early morning, and in all kinds of weather. That said, even when the aircraft is capable, not all conditions are doable. During the last strong winter high pressure system, the Snake River Plain and surrounding areas were
blanketed by a thick fog. Fortunately, the Mackay airport was open, so the good people of Salmon and Challis still
got their packages, just a little later.
Presentation of the award for the 2017 Blue Angels “Show of the Year” in Idaho Falls. Bob and Jane Hoff join two members of the
Blue Angels team, along with other officials, at the ceremony. All photos courtesy Mike Hart.
Below: Flying above the inversion. Plus— Just like the big boys, the Gem Air Caravan gets de-iced at SLC.
Note the windmills poking up through the inversion in photo at left.
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The Warhawk’s Amazing P-40s
Crista Worthy, Editor
I hope you had the chance to read last month’s feature,
“Do You Really Know the Warhawk?” If not, I urge you to pull up the December 2017 issue: (www.IdahoAviation.com/newsletters.php). Read it and get just an inkling of the inspiring stories of our great aviation heroes, just waiting at the Warhawk Air Museum for YOU to discover. As I mentioned last month, their primary mission isn’t just to show you their beautiful airplanes. Their real mission is to tell you the stories of some of the bravest men and women the world has ever seen.
That said, the Warhawk really does have some exceptional aircraft on display, and I have yet to see an airworthy Curtiss P-40 that can outdo either Sneak Attack or Parrot Head, the two P-40s at the Warhawk.
The Flying Heritage & Combat Armor Museum, at Paine Field in Everett, Wash., does have a beautiful, airworthy Curtiss P-40C Tomahawk that was shot down during WWII, glided to a safe landing in a snowy field, and abandoned, until it was discovered in the 1990s and recovered. You can still see the bullet hole that punctured its oil tank. But that museum is owned by Paul Allen, the billionaire co-founder of Microsoft, who can buy, and pay to have restored, anything he wants. Truth be told, I assumed John Paul, founder of the Warhawk Air Museum, was also a man of exceptionally deep pockets, but no.
As he told the EAA some years ago, “I don’t own these airplanes because I have a lot of money. I own these airplanes because I got them when nobody wanted them.”
John Paul was gripped by a love for warbirds when just a boy, and in his spare time as a young man he fished around for boxes of spare parts. Back then, in the 1950s and 60s, you could buy a brand-new Allison engine for $250 in the box, or a P-40 main gear retract cylinder for $17. John acquired his first full plane at age 20, a Fairchild PT-19A open-cockpit, tandem monoplane. His first fighter was the P-40E he put together from a pile of parts he bought in 1966 for $4,000.
The P-40E fuselage as John first found it in Half Moon Bay, California. Photo courtesy Sue Paul.
Better known now as Sneak Attack (or Sue), it is painted
with the traditional paint scheme of the Royal Air Force No. 112 Squadron, aka the “Shark Squadron,” that flew in
North Africa in 1941. This unit was the first Allied military aviation unit to feature the “shark mouth” paint scheme. John first flew the P-40E in 1971, after it had been scavenged for parts to restore two other P-40s that flew in the film Tora! Tora! Tora! For three years, it was the only P-40 in the world flying.
Sneak Attack lands at Nampa during the Warbird Roundup, 2014.
Photo by Crista Worthy In the 70s, John was based out of Livermore, California.
At one time, he had the equivalent of about five P-40s, in pieces. Not long after completing his first P-40E, John acquired two more incomplete P-40s. One of them John found buried in a farmer’s field in Canada. John had flown Sneak Attack up to Canada, and when the fellow at the FBO saw that P-40E, he said, “I used to play on one of those when I was a kid, out on my neighbor’s field.” That got John’s full attention. He asked where the plane was, and the man said the farmer had buried it 23 years before. The farmer pointed to the spot and John arranged for a backhoe. John and his brother Jerry dug it up and, as the plane began to emerge from the dirt, along one side, the exhaust stacks appeared. They had the appearance of a dinosaur spine, so they named the plane Curtissaurus Rex.
Curtissaurus Rex is unearthed. Note the exhaust stacks at the bottom of the photo, which resembled a dinosaur’s spine as the
plane first came in to view. Photo courtesy Sue Paul.
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The tail was gone, but then John learned a neighbor had scavenged pieces of the airplane before it was buried, and John was able to obtain those. John eventually sold Curtissaurus Rex, in pieces.
With parts he bought from a contact in New Zealand, John was able to complete a second P-40E, which was flown by Tom Camp in the John Belushi film 1941. He later traded this second E for a bunch of parts, including most of the components that eventually became the Boise Bee, the P-51C now at the Warhawk.
The fuselage of the second P40E. Photo courtesy Sue Paul. In the process of searching for parts and building the
airplanes, John met many of the men who built or flew the warbirds of WWII. The great Jimmy Doolittle, for example, became a good friend, and you can see his pilot certificate at the Warhawk. Another close friend was Dr. Don Berlin. You may not have heard of him, but Berlin was the Chief Engineer who designed the Curtiss P-40 in 1938. It was Berlin who ordered the engine on the prototype XP-40, a Pratt & Whitney R-1830 (Twin Wasp) 14-cylinder air-cooled radial, to be replaced with the liquid-cooled, supercharged Allison V-1710 V-12 engine. Yet Dr. Berlin himself had never had the opportunity to fly in a P-40. John Paul was able to take Berlin, then 81, up in his dual-seat P-40E, for Berlin’s only ride in the airplane he designed. Berlin said that the P-40 rolled faster than a P-51 (he was correct, the P-40 does roll faster), and he wanted to experience it for himself, so they did numerous rolls. Wow!
Dr. Berlin and John Paul in front of P-40E #2, after Berlin’s ride.
Around 1986, John leased the shark-mouthed P-40E, Sneak Attack, to airshow pilot Ray Hannah for three years. Hannah was based in Europe, so the airplane was flown across the Atlantic and performed to crowds all over Europe—the first Allison-powered fighter to fly over Europe since WWII.
1986 was also the year that the Paul family moved their wire rope cutter business from California to Meridian, Idaho. John built a hangar for the two P-40s at Caldwell Airport. He also had an Allison engine, a Packard Merlin, and the partially-restored P-51C, all on display in a corner. He put up some photos, and soon people began stopping by and dropping off memorabilia. By 1989, John and Sue formed a 501(c)3 corporation and founded the Warhawk Air Museum. They moved the museum to Nampa in 2000.
The N model, now called Parrot Head, is an interesting story. In 1986, John paid $385 for an engine and placed it into a P-40N he had built (again, from parts), and flew that engine for over 20 years before replacing it. The fuselage was factory olive drab on top with the dapple-grey underneath. Years before, John had discovered photos, taken in 1943, of a squadron of 10 P-40Ns painted the same way, except for the front, which were painted with parrot heads of bright orange, yellow, and red, accented with black.
The “Parrot Head” squadron of 1943-K in Alabama. Examination of the photos showed that the serial
numbers on the planes began with 210, the same as John’s N model. Around 2007, John decided to paint the parrot head on his airplane to honor this Class of 1943-K, which were based at Napier Field near Dothan, Alabama, during WWII. A call was made to former 1943-K class member Jim Wier, who confirmed that the airplanes were N models and the parrot’s name was Gruffy. Wier said that the original parrot head P-40s definitely saw combat, although he didn’t know where, before they were brought back to the U.S. for use as training aircraft. The P-40N Parrot Head at the Warhawk Air Museum is now the only airplane in the world with that paint job.
Parrot Head taxis out for a formation flight over Nampa during the
Warbird Roundup, 2014. Photo by Crista Worthy Page 7
(Here’s a little P-40 nomenclature trivia for you: all U.S. Curtiss P-40s are called Warhawks. British Commonwealth and Soviet air force Curtiss P-40s equivalent to the model P-40B and P-40C are called Tomahawks, and Kittyhawk for models equivalent to the P-40D and all later variants.)
The Warhawk Air Museum’s two Curtiss P-40 Warhawks fly frequently, at airshows around the West. They’ve also flown in the movies. The P-40E Sneak Attack flew in the 2008 film Valkyrie, starring Tom Cruise. Both Sneak Attack and Parrot Head (pre-parrot paint job) appeared in the 2001 film Pearl Harbor. That film was shot in Hawaii, so the P-40s were flown to California, secured onto a barge along with a B-25 and other warbirds, and towed across the Pacific to Hawaii to shoot the scenes.
After Jim Wier learned that John Paul planned to paint the parrot head on his N model to honor Wier’s squadron, Wier was inspired to contact the other members of his class of 1943, who he hadn’t seen since they were in training together. They had a reunion in 2009.
That’s the thing about the Warhawk. It brings history to life. The Warhawk Museum has partnered with the Library of Congress for the Veterans History Project. The museum also developed a program called Bridging the Generations. Over the years, veterans have met with high school students at the museum, giving them first-hand accounts of what happened during WWII. Most of the students had no idea—said they’d never been taught these things in school.
Thanks to the Paul family for all the work you have done to bring this fantastic museum to us, and for flying these precious airplanes at so many air shows, for so many people!
www.WarhawkAirMuseum.org.
Member Photos
George Thomas lands his 1962 Max Holste 1521 Broussard at Johnson Creek.
Gary Hamilton’s RV-6 at Big Creek
Jeffrey Brown’s Glasair on the way home to Boise from Wash D.C.
Robert Carmean’s RV-6 on frozen Boulder Lake, Wyoming
When it comes to float planes, those folks in North Idaho seem to have the most fun! Chris Dempsey photos.
A C-185F resting at Hill’s Resort, Priest Lake. Departing Lake Pend Oreille with the Selkirk Range in background
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C-185F on approach to Hill’s Resort, Priest Lake
Lake Amphibian at Priest Lake–Huckleberry Bay
Lake Amphibian over Cavanaugh Bay with Tanglewood Seaplane Base in the background
Priest Lake Huckleberry Fly-In. Photo courtesy Lisa Martin
Amber Phillips, who works at Quest in Sandpoint, went “bar hopping” with her pilot-gal-pals. This is my kind of bar
hopping! All photos courtesy Amber Phillips.
Alan Bobo, an active IAA member from Pullman, Wash., sent in these photos below and to the right: Watching the solar eclipse on the Brownlee Reservoir, and visiting Cache Creek and Temperance Creek, both on the west side of the Snake River in Hells Canyon.
Thanks for sharing your photos! Send more! [email protected] We don’t always have space in The Flyline, but you may also see them on our Facebook page: www.Facebook.com/IdahoAviation --Editor
Contacts State President Andrew George 208-794-4480 State Vice President Website/Secretary/Treasurer Nadine Burak 208-861-9056 [email protected] Vice Presidents: Bill Miller—Gov’t Affairs/Scholarships 208-409-5713 Larry Taylor—Agency Liaison 208-855-0261 Jerry Terlisner—Activities 208-859-7959 Doug Culley—Membership/Scholarships 208-861-6926 Joe Corlett—Communications 208-890-1819 Don Lojek—Legal Affairs 208-484-2292 Andy Patrick—Commercial Operators 208-383-3323 Directors: Director-at-Large Dist #1 Don McIntosh 208-946-8490 Dist #2 Bill Ables 541-263-1327 Dist #3 Joe Grubiak 208-514-9258 Dist #4 Kerry Requa 208-221-7417 Dist #5 Greg Cobia 208-785-5006 Dist #6 Mike Hart 208-528-7672 THE FLYLINE—Crista Worthy 208-906-4471
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The FLYLINE January 2018
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