EAA Chapter 1310

People at the annual Skylark/Chapter 1310 Christmas Party. This year held at the Royal Buffet.

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A Boy Scout tTroop from Agawam, MA visited prior to a trip to the Sikorsky plant to complete several items required to obtain their aviation merit badge.

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Charlie Falke and Paul Dowgewicz attended the EAA Chapter Leaders Workshop on October 24 & 25, 2009. Here are some of the photos I took during the social and tour portions of the weekend. The EAA Museum has some decorations up for Halloween

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Chapters 1310 and 166 members ran a successful Young Eagles rally in September at Skylark Airpark. The flights that day give us over 200 rides for the year.

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Chapters 166 and 1310 combined our resources to host a Young Eagles rally in June at Brainard Airport.

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Members from Chapters 1310, 166, 324, 334 and 27 supported the Robertson Airport open house with Young Eagles flights. We're still sorting through the paperwork, but at least 94 children were flown by our volunteers.

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About 40 chapter members, airport tenants, and their guests attended this year's event.

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44 New Young Eagles were flown on September 13th by 9 pilots including two who participated in the program for the first time.

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On May 17th Chapter 166 and 1310 hosted 34 Young Eagles on their first flights in a general aviation aircraft. Visit the Newsletter page for further details on this great event.

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Another beautiful day. We had about 60 people and 15 planes flew in for the event. The new grill worked out great. We could easily handle more people.

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Our most successful pancake breakfast ever. We had 102 diners with us on a great January day. A big Thank You goes out to all the members who helped set up, cook and clean up for this event.

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The Chapter, in association with the Windsor Locks FSDO and Skylark Airpark sponsored a Safety Seminar and Cookout on June 9. Low IFR conditions prevented anyone from flying in, but we had about 40 people learn about factors that make an aircraft worthy for flight.

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Bob Martin recently gave a tour of his project showing its progress. The engine and many structural items are now installed. Bob is also building a radio controlled model of the Sportster

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The October, 2002 Chapter Meeting was held at Fred Stucklen's workshop

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On February 7, 2007 several members of the chapter visited John at his home workshop where is is restoring a 1938 Luscombe.

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Several chapter members visited Linc Turcotte on May 9, 2007 to see his progress on his RV-6 project.

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Photos of the departure toward Florida of the Tiger Moth.
Photos were taken by Bob Poules.

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Photos around the Sun N Fun grounds. Also some video clips of the air show.

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Photos and video clips of the USAF Thunderbirds during the Thursday practice show.

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An Airbus A380 visited Bradley Airport on October 2, 2007 for a visit to area industries that have provided components and services for the aircraft. I didn't get to the airport when it left at about 6AM the next day. It wouldn't have made very good photos in the dark anyway.

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The AOPA Expo was held in our own back yard this year. Chapter 1310 was well represented. There were a lot of new small jets displayed, as well as a lot of light sport category planes.

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The Simsbury Fly-In got delayed two weeks due to rain, and then got off to a slow start due to fog, but the weather cleared and the crowd came in.

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Warbird Air Show

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The Airbus A380

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This year we arrived on Tuesday, so we missed the Doobie Brothers. We hope to be there on July 26th for Chicago.

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Updated Lockheed C-5M

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EAA AirVenture Museum. Grand Opening of the Founder's Wing

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People around the grounds

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New planes in the Ultralight area

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Classic Planes

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A couple War Planes

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Photos taken during the Chapter's trip to Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome on August 17, 2008. For a description of the visit, visit http://blog.eaa1310.org/?p=56

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Oshkosh, Wisconsin

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Kermit Weeks' Fantasy of Flight in Polk City, Florida
April 15, 2005

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Centennial of Flight celebration at Kill Devil Hills, NC.

Taken on Sunday December 15, 2003. It was wet that day. Very, very wet. The Temptations performance was moved inside, and the air show was cancelled. The crowd was very light.

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Opening day at the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum Udvar-Hazy Center at Dulles Airport, December 15, 2003.

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The Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum on the 100th Anniversary of Flight.
December 17, 2003

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Some of the excellent collection of aircraft and aviation artifacts at our local museum

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Taken on a visit to the museum November 14-16, 2006

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