November Meeting – Elections and Fly Mart

Come join us Monday for some aviation treasure hunting!

For our November Membership Meeting in addition to voting for Board Members for the 2026/28 period we’re holding our Annual Fly Mart, where you can bring along your aviation no-longer-needed-but-someone-else-might-find-a-use-for items and sell them, or donate them to another member.
We’ll also have a special presentation by our President, Dan Gutierrez, on the topic of naval aviation and carrier landings.

Want to learn all about what it takes to land a jet aircraft on a moving runway?
This presentation will reveal all the details you never learn watching YouTube videos. Strap in and learn what are the sensations, communications and fears involved in trapping aboard a carrier. Come with all your questions and learn the truth behind the most challenging flying in the world!

We’ll have the tables available in the main hangar space for items to be displayed, and where the bartering can happen! No fees but donations to Chapter funds are welcome.

No limits on the items but they must be aviation related, and unsold/donated items must be removed at the end of the meeting. No, we don’t want them either!
Search your toolboxes, hangar drawers, lockers and cabinets and bring your once-valued treasures along for reuse.

We’ll have coffee and snacks to give you energy to cart your haul away. Feel free to bring any leftover Halloween candy.

At 7 PM we’ll hold our elections in the meeting room. This is also your LAST CALL to nominate a candidate for the VP, Treasurer or Membership Director positions. Voting will be overseen by Brian Wheeler (Chapter Officer and Nominating Chair), who will tally votes and announce results at the meeting. Please e-mail Brian with your candidate recommendation by Friday, October 31st.

Chapter Fly-Out to Grimes Airport (8N1)

Join us Sunday, October 26th for a fly out for a Grimes Airport, PA (8N1). Grimes is a 2700 ft grass field, located about 45 nautical miles NNW of New Garden, and will take about thirty minutes to fly there. The Golden Age Air Museum is organizing the Great Pumpkin Fly-In and Cruise-In this weekend as their end-of-season finale, and admission for fly-in aircraft is FREE.

Pilots and passengers meet at the EAA 240 hangar at 08:30am. Wheels up at 09:00am.
Check your email for any flight changes due to weather or any other factors.

Use the REGISTER link to sign up for the fly-out. Pilots please reply and include your open seats and weight capacity. Passengers please reply and include your weight and contact information.
Passengers, if able, please chip in for fuel costs and/or buy your pilot a meal.

Questions or more information?

VMC/IMC Session – Thursday, October 23rd

EAA240 VMC/IMC Club Meeting

Thursday, October 23rd, 6pm
EAA240 Chapter Hangar

Sharing ideas, concepts and experiences in better flying

Join us Thursday, October 23rd for another IMC & VMC Club session, starting at 6pm. We’ll discus a few scenarios related to both VMC and IMC flying. All Chapter members – pilots and non-pilots – are invited to attend this session led by Robert Huxster. We’ll go through the scenarios and share flight experiences, with the goal being for all of us to learn something new.

The session includes the use of EAA National-provided scenarios and videos. Video topics for this session will include: “Double Trouble” in a Twin and “Dark Arrival” with no runway lights seen at minimums. We’ve worked with the FAA Safety Team to receive WINGS credit for the event.
Register for the event here: https://www.faasafety.gov/SPANS/event_registration.aspx?eid=139955

In preparation for the meeting, here are a couple questions that we will discuss:

Question: You’re flying a personal aircraft under Part 91 and wish to carry some fireworks that will be used for celebration at a private party. Can you legally transport the fireworks in your airplane?

Question: You’re a non-instrument rated pilot, and have contacted ATC in an emergency situation and have been given vectors to an airport where you can make an emergency landing. What should you do if it appears the vector may take you into IMC?

Questions?: imcvmcclub@eaa240.org

More information about the EAA240 IMC/VMC Group is here

Chapter Fly-Out to Hagerstown, MD (HGR)

Join us Saturday, October 11th for a fly out for a Hagerstown, MD (KHGR). HGR is about 91 nautical miles west of New Garden, and will take about an hour to fly there. We’ll have lunch at The Grille at Runways (https://www.thegrillehgratrunways.com/), enjoying the FBOs red carpet treatment, before heading back to New Garden.

Pilots and passengers meet at the EAA 240 hangar at 09:30am. Wheels up at 10:00am.
Check your email for any flight changes due to weather or any other factors.

Click here to sign-up for the fly-out, or send an e-mail to the Events Team. Pilots please reply and include your open seats and weight capacity. Passengers please reply and include your weight and contact information.
Passengers, if able, please chip in for fuel costs and/or buy your pilot a meal.

Questions or more information?

October Membership Meeting – Designing Your Own Parts

Join us Monday, October 6th for our first official meeting after the summer break. We’ll gather downstairs for food (we’re grilling hot dogs!) and hangar flying around 6:30pm, with the meeting officially starting at 7pm.

We’ll start with a quick recap of our summer activities, followed by an update on what’s coming for the end of the year and our 2026 plans. We’ll discuss the upcoming November elections for the Chapter Board and our volunteer situation, before switching to our main topic for the evening: Designing Your Own Parts (and Building Them).

Have you ever thought about using CAD (Computer-Aided Design) to create a part or tool? Is the idea of 3D printing such parts or tools something you’d like to know more about?

Octavian Codreanu, our chapter VP, will give us a quick primer on what it takes to start designing a part or tool, discuss the pros and cons of some of the CAD packages available today and start the conversation on how your design can become a 3D printed reality.

See you Monday – bring your appetite and your curiosity with you!

Visitors & guests are welcome. We’ll be complete no later than 9pm.

Beautiful Day to Fly – WWD Fly-Out Report

Smooth air and nice skies greeted us on our fly out to Cape May New Jersey for breakfast and a museum tour. Four aircraft departed New Garden and one from Wilmington with 12 hungry EAA Members to enjoy a great breakfast at the Flight Deck Diner B-25, B-52, P-51 style. Some of our newest young eagle vets got a chance to fly the aircraft and see the coastline view from above. Following full bellies and aviation stories all told at breakfast, we headed to the NAS Wildwood Aviation Museum for a great look back at aviation history. The trip home from Cape May was just as nice! A big thank you goes out to the pilots and planes completing a great morning in aviation!