Volunteers Needed! Come give us a hand, if you can – details below.
Join us Saturday for another Pancake Breakfast with New Garden Flying Field Cars, Coffee, and Airplanes! The airport will be buzzing with activity, as we plan on flying Young Eagles as well (weather permitting) and the airport will be holding its Cars and Coffee event. We’ll be serving coffee and donuts as well, stop by the airport kitchenette and grab a cup and a donut! https://www.newgardenflyingfield.com/eventlist/cars-coffee-airplanes-y49wd
These events can’t happen without a helping hand. If you’d like to volunteer, we’re looking for a bit of help on Friday afternoon (5:30pm) to set things up, and then for some more help on Saturday, starting at 7:00am. If you’d like to help up wrap things up at the end of the day, plan on arriving later and staying until 1pm or so.
Join us Saturday for another Pancake Breakfast with New Garden Flying Field 2026 Festival of Flight Air Show! The airport will be buzzing with activity and we are serving pancake breakfast on Saturday Morning during the Run the Runway 5k event, and hot dog sales during the air show Saturday and Sunday.
Join us Saturday for another Pancake Breakfast with New Garden Flying Field Cars, Coffee, and Airplanes! The airport will be buzzing with activity, as we plan on flying Young Eagles as well (weather permitting) and the airport will be holding its Cars and Coffee event.
We need volunteers for two shift on Saturday, June 27th to support coffee service and the pancake breakfast. We had a blast last time and need your help!
We’ll start serving food at 8am, rain or shine, and wrap up around 1PM.
Despite Mother Nature’s best attempts, Saturday turned out to be a great day at the airport! While we had to cancel our Young Eagles event, everything else went according to plan. Over 100 cars showed up, and plenty of hungry and thirsty people stopped by our FBO coffee and donut station, or at the main hangar Pancake Breakfast. Keeping the hangar door mostly closed helped block the wind and cold air, offering our guests a comfortable place to have a bite and socialize.
Our volunteer team did an excellent job – after a long winter break, they quickly got up to speed and churned out pancakes, sausages, scrambled eggs, grilled vegetables and home fries fast enough to keep up with the high demand. We had a good turnout, and there was no time for a break for most of the day. Most importantly, though – we all had fun.
Outside, it was a busy ramp, bustling with cars and car enthusiasts. A few of our chapter members brought their own, including, among other cars, a Rolls Royce Silver Shadow II!
Thank you very much for joining us Saturday and making this a successful event, despite the changing weather. A special thank you to our team of volunteers! We couldn’t have done this without your help.
What’s next? Our May membership meeting is scheduled for Monday, May 4th. Bring your favorite Star Wars shirt and any other memorabilia that’s easy to carry. Leave the X-Wings and TIE Fighters at home – parking space is limited! We have a fly-out scheduled on May 9th, and we’ll be flying to Massey Aerodrome for their Chili Fiesta! We’re planning another Pancake Breakfast and Young Eagles event on June 27th, and we can always use an extra hand. Check the website and watch your e-mails for volunteering opportunities.
The low ceilings and rain forecast for Saturday force us to cancel our Young Eagles event. Our Pancake Breakfast is still happening, though. Come join us in our heated hangar for a great breakfast and plenty of aviation talk!
Join us Saturday for our first Pancake Breakfast of the year! The airport will be buzzing with activity, as we plan on flying Young Eagles as well (weather permitting) and the airport will be holding its Cars and Coffee event. Bring your family and friends and come have breakfast with us! It’s a great way to hang out and your patronage helps us provide free flights for kids and flight scholarships. We’ll start serving food at 8am, rain or shine, and wrap up around noon.
We started with a bit of practice cooking in preparation for our upcoming pancake breakfast events, where we tried a few new ideas. As you can see, it didn’t take long for our first tasters to show up.
We tried some new sausage, new style of potatoes, added some grilled veggies to the mix and we made it easier to eat by turning it (for the willing participants) into a pancake sandwich. We even asked our judges if they wanted cheese with that!
Following our food event, we gathered upstairs for our actual April meeting. Following a brief update on the chapter status and upcoming projects presented by our chapter president, Dan Gutierrez, he handed over the controls to our guest speaker for the night.
Octavian picked up from where he left in October, showing us how to turn our design dreams into reality! We had a proper show and tell, with an actual 3D printer turning the demonstration design into reality as the presentation was going on. While this was happening, we learned about the process and knowledge required to create a part from a 3D model, discussed the pros and cons of different 3D printing materials and what are some of the practical applications of 3D printing for the experimental (and sometimes certified) aviation environment. While the conversation was going on, many 3D printed parts made their way around the meeting room, each teaching the audience about another key aspect of 3D printing. We wrapped up just in time to see the demo part finish printing – talk about a plan well executed! Plenty of questions and contributions from the public made the presentation even more interesting.
Thank you all for joining us. See you at our next meeting, scheduled for Monday, May 4th.
The family of long-time Chapter member Reggie Thompson, who passed away on May 21st, 2026, assembled at the Chapter hangar Saturday, September 20th and, led by Reggie’s wife Beverley, they…
Hopefully everyone is back from Oshkosh and had time to rest for a bit. Now it’s time for your next adventure. We’re only four weeks away from New Garden’s biggest event of the year: 2025 Festival of Flight Air, Car, & Tractor Show. Returning as a weekend event after a few years of constant TFRs, everyone is expecting a large crowd to be present, and we’re hoping the crowd will be a hungry and thirsty one! We will be providing a pancake breakfast for both Saturday and Sunday, and will be selling hot dogs on the airshow grounds throughout the event on both days. The airshow will take place from 2pm to 10pm on Saturday, and from 10am to 5pm on Sunday. Other events (including a 5k race) will take place in the morning before the airshow, which will also draw crowds. This has the potential to be one of our biggest fundraiser events of the year, but we will definitely need your help for that. With both days (and especially Saturday) being long days, we’re looking at two (or even three) sets of volunteers for each day. We’ll have to transport supplies Thursday, Friday and maybe even Saturday (Aug 21-23). If you have a pick-up truck or a large van we could definitely use your help. We’ll plan on doing most of the set-up work on Friday (Aug 22nd) afternoon, and we’ll need a few volunteers for that. A pancake breakfast will be served to airshow participants and members of the public on both days, and then we’ll be serving hot dogs at the airshow in the afternoon and evening on Saturday and morning and afternoon on Sunday. We’re hoping to have enough volunteers to split the hot dog sales teams into two groups for each day. At the end of the day on Sunday, we’ll need a few volunteers to break down and store all the pancake breakfast and hot dog equipment/tables/canopies.
Here are the volunteer group breakdowns:
Fri 5 PM to 7 PM (clean hangar and set up for breakfast). Sat 6 AM to 12 Noon ( serve and cook breakfast, clean up, about 10 AM set up Hot Dog stand, sell hot dogs) Sat 12 Noon to 6 PM ( sell hotdogs) Sat 6 PM to 11 PM (sell hot dogs, clean up) Sun 6 AM to 12 Noon (serve and cook breakfast, clean up, set up for hot dogs, sell hot dogs) Sun12 Noon to 6 PM (sell hot dogs, clean up, move supplies back to the hangar)
As you can see, it’s not a small endeavor. We’ll need all the help we can get, but the more people we have, the easier it will be for all of us. One significant perk for our volunteers: they will receive a free airshow pass. That’s a $50 value right there.
Please use the links below to register for the event segment (or segments) you’d like to volunteer:
