Regular Meetings are held at 8:30 a.m. on the last Saturday of the month. Breakfast is served at 8:30 a.m. and then we have our monthly meeting at 9:00 a.m.
Future Meeting Dates
Location: Hangar 3 (big hangar) at Skyhaven Airport. Address: 160 NW 251 Rd, Warrensburg, MO
Aug 10, 2024 Member outreach picnic at Bill Thoms' house. Bring friends and family interested in aviation. Call Don Slone (660) 580-0546 for details.
Aug 31, 2024 8:30 Donuts and coffee/juice Program: Whiteman AFB ATC
Sept 14, 2024 See you at the Lincoln, MO Fly-In!
Sept 28, 2024 8:30 Donuts and coffee/juice. Program: Jeff Suhr will be presenting a special safety program from our KC FSDO regarding recent accidents.
October 26, 2024 8:30 Donuts and coffee/juice. Program: John Cline will be presenting a program on the new UAS (drone) operations airspace that is showing up when we flight plan. What does it mean for us in our flight planning?
Scheduled Young Eagles Days
Sept 7th with a weather backup of Sept 21st.
Scheduled Eagle Day
None at this time. Normally scheduled each May.
Past Meetings:
Jun 29, 2024 - A great time was had at Gilbert and Jane Powers house with a potluck dinner and fireworks!
May 25 2024 - Sam from Midwest Soaring Association gave a great presentation on soaring opportunities and requirements.
May 18 2024 - Flying Start. We flew 7 Eagle flights. The enthusiasm was great!
Apr 27 2024 - Meeting with Harper Goodwin, RAF Arkansas State Liaison presenting on RAF flying opportunities in Arkansas. We're going to go there!
Jun 11 - 13 2024 - Several pilots flew to Arkansas to visit the RAF airfields of northwest Arkansas. We camped out at Trigger Gap and toured the airfields at Table Rock Lake the first day then we toured about six fields on the second day. What a great time! We are planning another trip in early October 2024.
Jun 22 2024 - Young Eagles Rally. We flew 24 young Eagles!
Apr 20 2024 - Young Eagles Rally. We flew 33 Young Eagles!
January 2024 - Member John Cline and Warrensburg HAM operators club gave presentation and demonstration.
September 2023 - Young Eagles Rally. We flew 32 Young Eagles!
August 2023 - At our regular meeting Sgt John Cline from the Pettis County Sheriff's Department gave us a presentation on drone operations. Jeff Suhr followed up with a presentation on military drones. Sgt Cline then demonstrated one of the drones that he uses. This was a great program!
May 2023 - We participated in the EAA First Flight program flying 8 adults. This was extremely successful! The adults were truly interested in flying and had many questions. We had local flight instructors available to discuss flight instruction opportunities.
April 2023 - Jeff Suhr, a certified Wings instructor, gave a presentation on what Wings is about and then on checklist usage. Meeting was well attended and much discussion and interest.
Mar 2023 - Due to weather the previous Saturday we flew Young Eagles flights on this date. Very successful day!
Feb 2023 - At this meeting we had Joe "Rifle" Shetterly speak. Joe is an airline pilot, an Air Force Reserve pilot flying the A-10 and one of the pilots qualified to put on A-10 demonstration flights at airshows and is a civilian airshow pilot (https://www.rifleairshows.com/joe-rifle-shetterly/). Joe is also a certified airshow pilot qualified to fly the P-51 Mustang in airshows. All of his experience made for a VERY interesting presentation.
Jan 2023 - This month's topic was "Tips, Tricks and Techniques". Each member shared things they had learned to make things easier or safer. This program went very well with everyone participating and some good discussions on various topics. This will probably be an annual topic.
2022
At our May meeting, we had the opportunity to visit Mr. Lloyd SIsk's hangar where he is building a Sonex homebuilt aircraft! He showed us the process of scratch building from raw material!
We had our first successful Young Eagles Rally event on Saturday, April 2nd. Eight Eagles had a great time flying out of SkyHaven Airport! Here are some highlights:
