Minutes: January 21, 2006 Meeting of EAA Squadron 110

A Minutes of December approved as published.
B. Dues of $25 for 2006 are due.  Currently $159.81 in account to start the year.
C.  John Feemster handed out the officer awards with a certificate and a pin.
D. Hangar discussion led by john Gould with much discussion from the members.  The room was filled with people with about 30 people present.  There was discussion about all four county airports (Watsonville, Hollister, South County (E16), Marina) with people represented form each of the airports. Even Frazier Lake airport was discussed.  A summary a statement is that the cost / airplane with two per hangar is about $230 at south county and about $140 at Hollister.  That $90 delta has to be evaluated by each owner for the benefit of 40 fewer miles / trip.  If there are two owners the cost is about $45 / month and with 6 people in the genesis about $15/member / month. Rich Grialou pays $79.50/ month to tie-down his Sonex at E16.

The new hangars at South County are now expected to be available in March, this year.

Jim Shaw wishes to move to E16 but worries about the insurance requirement.
Jack and Bill's hornet must share hangar to afford the cost at E16.
Rich Grialou will move into a hangar and need the total hangar at first.

The next potential crisis is the closing of Weatherly with about a dozen aircraft that would suddenly need hangars.  At the same time Hollister is attempting to raise rates.  Mixed with the Hollister potential problems are the sharing of hangars with mixed hangar name vs. location of the airplane. The annual hangar tax and airplane tax always raises potential for the audit. 

The Weatherly has
1.  Tundra
2. Quicksilver
3. Genesis
4. Challenger - Steve White
5. Gary Buddy's Yellow Cub-like aircraft
6. Tim Floyd;s aircraft.
7.  A trike
8.  Three other exotic aircraft
9.  Steve Winegarden’s challenger 2 in Florida needs a home
10.  Ryan's CGS hawk kit will need a home
11. ?


B. Another item discussed was Wings of History
Guide lines for their members use of the club house. 
If we have 10 EAA110 members join WOH will that pay for EAA 110 annual use?

C. This triggered the discussion of the Airpark study.  John Feemster, Vaughn and another gentleman (Steven Winegarden?) will study Tom Lynch’s idea of finding land to lease. 

D. John Feemster made it clear to us that his trailer is available to anyone in the club to use to move airplanes around. Jack says all you have to do is paint it each time.

E. John Feemster's technical talk was an outstanding presentation on power point with DLP projection. 

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Prepared by John Gould, and messed-with by Vaughn McIlrath, 1-22-2006