A happy and fun day was the comment about the Georgia Chapter's best Fly-In yet! Our 2010 event was held at Ron Alexander's PeachState Aerodrome on Saturday May 15th and was an outstanding success. At the end of the day over 30 members were present with five new aviators signing up for AAA. The weather was perfect and we counted over 83 aircraft, which is a new record. One of the great attractions for our Georgia Chapter is the central location of GA2 and this beautiful 2400' grass runway. The adjacent Candler Field Museum plus Ron's super Barnstormer's Grille makes this an attraction in its own right.
The aircraft scene was the nice assortment of over twelve Stearmans, PT-13s, PT-17s , the super C-3 B and our favorite the 6 L Cloudboy. The largest group turned out to be the fabric wing Pipers, 13 J-3s along with PA-12s and a super Colt plus two PA-18 Super Cubs. One of our sponsors, Cub Crafters, brought the awesome new 180 hp "Graphite Cub". They would not donate it for the raffle however!
There were others that caught several judge's eyes such as the Funk, Fairchild 24, Eucoupes, a beautiful 39' Aeronca Chief , a very modern Maule, a Kit Fox, several RV types and the "flyingest" Fokker Eindecker replica. What an assortment of machines and while all this is going on Ron's Waco N33KD is giving rides all day, grass roots aviation at its best.
At 2 pm we held our first Chapter meeting to introduce the new 2010 Georgia Chapter AAA officers. Welcoming remarks by Brent Taylor from Blakesburg included very positive comments about the resurgence of AAA in the USA and an optimistic outlook for our Georgia Chapter being active again. Brent made this special trip to Georgia to present the Charter to The Georgia Cub Flyers, our new affiliated group represented by their President J. D. Jeffers Jr. With over 50 members we welcome them to the AAA and thanks for the Cub turnout.
More details and photos about the fly-in are on the Peach State Aerodrome website. We look forward to seeing everyone again for "Vintage Days" at GA2 on Saturday August 28.
John Reed
Georgia State Director
