President Report – Arnie Quast Greetings EAA 932 Chapter Members I hope that everyone is having a good summer. This month I am composing my message from a camper located in the friendly confines of Airventure’s Camp Scholler at Oshkosh. Many of our chapter members and folks from Galt Airport are camped out up [...]
President Report – Arnie Quast Greetings EAA 932 Chapter Members I hope everyone is doing well as summer is in full swing here at Galt Airport. As always, the chapter has been busy with some neat events. For our June gathering, a large group of chapter members attended a private viewing of Top Gun [...]
Ed Moricoli Scholarship Update: About G’dang Time!! Grass Roots Galt Edition by JT Thuma In 2018, I received the Ed Moricoli Flight Training Scholarship. I was pumped. I started doing ground school with Justin Cleland and flying with Josh at JB. We flew throughout the spring and summer and by the end of [...]
After a three year break due to the pandemic, EAA 932’s Barnstormer Day made a swift comeback. For once, Mother Nature hit a home run with the weather! It was a sunny day with temperatures in the mid ‘70s. Barnstormer Day is an annual event that was started over 10 years ago [...]
Ed Moricoli Scholarship applications and Ray Scholar Nominations Nominations for the Ray Scholarship and applications for the Ed Moricoli Scholarship will be reviewed by the scholarship committee in the coming weeks. Look here next month for an announcement of the 2022 Scholarship recipients. Photos of past Scholarship Recipients: 2018 Justin Thuma (EM), 2019 [...]
EAA Chapter 932 has been conducting a Young Eagles Build and Fly program over the past few months. Several young folks successfully built a radio-controlled airplane that they will fly for the first time in the next few weeks. As a reward for all of their hard work, we had a barbeque lunch for them, [...]
Meet Mike Land I’ve been involved to some small extent in aviation ever since my father bought me a ride in a Cessna 172 as a child, while on vacation in Missouri. The air, the view, and the feeling of freedom had quite an impression on a young eagle (1970s, long before there [...]
This year, EAA Chapter 932 is excited to welcome the Illinois Region Model A Restorers Club to our Barnstormer’s Day event on June 18. Founded in 1955, club members, several of whom date their membership to it’s genesis, own various configurations of the famous Model A, from 2-door sedans to fire trucks and even [...]
The day has finally arrived! On Wednesday, the 11th of this month, I successfully passed the Private Pilot checkride with DPE Jim Bair! It has certainly been a long time coming, but I’m glad to have endured the private pilot journey with so much support around me. I know my aviation journey doesn’t end here, [...]
President Report – Arnie Quast Greetings EAA 932 Chapter Members, Here comes summer! May flew by really quick! We had another well attended chapter gathering on May 14th. Chapter member Dan Johnson provided a great presentation on emergency landing preparedness, and Civil Air Patrol Leader Tom DeMaer gave us a testimonial of what it [...]
