The Experimental Aircraft Association is a world-wide association of average people that is all about personal aviation and the freedom to build and fly what you had built. It’s that simple!
A wide spectrum of people from every walk of life and occupation make airplanes at their homes every day. Do you need a lot of special training? No, a lot of builders have done nothing more complicated than changing the oil in their cars prior to beginning their projects and use power and hand tools found at your local home improvement store along with some aviation specific tools when they did it. But the majority of builders belong to their local Chapter and rely on members for advice and support during the process making the build faster, less expensive, and better as it's always better to have help from people who have done this already. An extra set of eyes is always an advantage and the "measure twice and cut once" saying is totally true! Being an EAA member also brings discounts from suppliers and a huge amount of educational materials and opportunities that pays dividends to members.
Don't have a pilot's license? With the new FAA Sport Pilot 2.0 rules, if you don't have a debilitating health condition of some sort, you can learn to fly in the recently revamped Sport Pilot category. 25 hours of training to fly simpler airplanes such as light sport category and vintage airplanes opens up a whole new world to the average person. Come to a Chapter meeting and ask what this takes. You might be surprised.
Monthly Chapter Meeting!
Chapter meetings are on the fourth Tuesday of each month. The next meeting is on April 28th 2026, 6:30 PM at Vancouver's Airway Sciences hangar just east of the main gate on the airfield with the big red and white T-28 trainer in the front.
Tentative Meeting Agenda:
- Introduce new visitors and members.
- Aviation news from the local PDX area.
- Chapter business.
- A Human Factors and Safety Training presentation by Steve Catalano, ATP/CFII, FAA Master Pilot.
- Up-coming aviation events at the Alaska Aviation Day at PDX and the first section of flying the Cascadia Tech aviation students.
- Update member building projects in work.
- New products for building or aviating.
IN THE MEANTIME, MANY OF OUR MEMBERS WOULD BE PLEASED TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT DESIGN OR CONSTRUCTION OF THE MORE POPULAR DESIGNS (ESPECIALLY THE RV SERIES) SUCH AS BEARHAWKS, ZENITHS, OR CLASSICS LIKE THE EARLY BONANZAS' OR AERONCA'S WITH STEEL OR FABRIC CONSTRUCTION THAT YOU MAY BE HAVING DIFFICULTY WITH RESTORING.
FOR QUESTIONS OR OTHER INFO EMAIL: eaa782pearson@gmail.com
