EAA Chapter 245 follows all provincial rules regarding COVID-19.  Please follow all the mandatory, and common-sense rules to protect yourself and others around you.  Our chapter does keep a supply of fresh surgical masks should you forget to bring your mask along.  Be safe.

We need to remind everyone that membership renewal time is January 1st 2026. Any non-members wishing to join will receive complementary membership for the remainder of 2025 when signing up for membership in 2026.

Please send your dues to Ken Potter, our treasurer, at treasurer@eaa245.org, and we will do the rest.

If you want to join our chapter, please click here for details.

President's Message:

Hello everyone.

Wow, it's been quite a summer with some amazing weather!  I hope that many of you have had a chance to take full advantage of it.

The annual Fly-In was quite a success thanks to all the volunteers that helped make it happen!  Many visitors told me that they had a great time.  Especially the first-timers who came in by car with the entire family.  It was very nice to see all the smiles and hear all the great comments!  Next year's 60th should be exceptional!

As the Fall sets in, we're reminded that winter preparations need to start.  Amazingly, the list of things to do never seems to get any shorter .... hmmm.  It also means that anyone flying during the cooler days needs to make sure that survival gear is updated appropriately.

Enjoy the gift of being part of the aviation community and fly with safety in mind.

Best regards,

Nick Papadopoli, President

EAA Chapter 245 Ottawa

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The next general meeting will be held at the chapter hangar at 10AM on

Saturday October 18^th

Subject matter will be the 2025 executive elections followed by an Oshkosh review and BBQ. 

Elections

The following positions are open for voting:

• Vice President
• Secretary
• Membership
• Young Eagles, and;
• Newsletter

Please feel free to submit your intent to take on any of these positions as we welcome new blood in the executive.  We do know for sure; the newsletter position is being vacated so we will have no newsletter following this meeting should no one come up to the plate.  Regarding Membership, Phill Johnson is not comfortable re-filling this position as he cannot guarantee commitment for the next two years.  Terms for these positions are two years.  Please come forward if you are interested in increasing your participation in your chapter.

Oshkosh Review

Please bring along any AirVenture photographs you have and share with your fellow chapter members.

BBQ

As usual for this summer, we will be having our monthly BBQ so don't eat up too much for breakfast and come and fill up on Hotdogs and Hamburgers.

September 20th Fly-In breakfast: by Ken Potter.

I want to thank all of the EAA 245 members who came out yesterday to volunteer for setup and today for the Fly-In.  

Wow, what a great day we had today.  The WX was perfect.  We sold approx. 220 meals. We had an interesting cross section of planes attending including a King Air from Lachute ($4,000 breakfast) and, on top of that the local community came out with many families with kids eager to learn about airplanes and of course have a great breakfast.

There are too many volunteers to list, but I'll call out a few.  In the Canuck hangar running the food prep, Scott Miller... you Rock!!!!!  On marshalling duty our stalwart keeping it safe, Phil Johnson, running Carp UNICOM for what is the most professional day of the year Carp experiences was of course Dwyane Price. And lastly, and not least, the volunteers who greeted all our guests, the servers; coordinated by my bride of 41 years Judy Potter. 

To quote Forest Gump... "I'm really tired now"....

VMC Club Meeting

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This Month’s Question:

Question: 

Canadian Newsletter "Bits and Pieces"

If you would like to receive the fantastic Canadian newsletter called "Bits and Pieces" then please subscribe using the following link. https://pages.eaa.org/unsubscribepage.html. Following that you need to scroll down to the section where it says EAA Newsletters and check the box where it says “Bits and Pieces Newsletter (For builders and fliers in Canada)”.  Now you are good to go.  If you have done this in the past but have stopped receiving the newsletter then I suggest you re-initialize your request by applying as a new request.

You can also get there using the QR code below.

On a second note, if you would like to contribute an article to Bits and Pieces, then please send the article to Ian Brown.

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