2025

Our Chapter Banquet will be held on February 22 at the Cary Country Club. Cash Bar begins at 6 PM with dinner service beginning at 7. As in past years, service is buffet style and menu items include a 6 oz Filet, Baked Herb Chicken and Cod Filet. Service begins with a salad, and coffee and dessert will also be provided. Following dinner, we will have the Chapter Awards presentation, followed by our featured speaker --

Captain Laura Savino will discuss the Tenerife disaster that occurred on March 27, 1977, when two Boeing 747 passenger jets collided on the runway at Tenerife North airport, Canary Islands. She is friends with one of the surviving pilots and shares his amazing perspective of the events that led up to the tragedy.  

Laura was a pilot on the B777, B767, B757, B747, B737, A319 and A320 with United Airlines. She flew for Eastern and Pan Am regionals before that. On her way to becoming a commercial airline pilot, she worked as an instrument flight instructor, charter pilot, freight pilot, aerial sightseeing tour pilot, ferry pilot, and aircraft repossessor. Laura is also an award-winning author and Chairman for the Old Dominion chapter of the Ninety-Nines International Organization of Women Pilots. She is an active member of the International Society of Women Airline Pilots (ISA+21), Women in Aviation International (WAI), and EAA. Laura is a mentor and international motivational speaker and has presented at AirVenture. Visit laurasavino747.com.

You can use the links below to reserve your meals for the banquet. With these links you can pay for as many of the menu items as you need, depending on the size of your group. Please make your selection(s) by February 7, as we need to provide a headcount to the Country Club.