by EAA | Mar 21, 2025 | volunteer, Volunteer Spotlight, volunteers
By Christopher Gauger, EAA 746128, EAA Chapter Field Representative I This piece originally ran in the February 2025 issue of EAA Sport Aviation magazine. Dwayne Waters, EAA 422289, has been serving as president of Merritt Island EAA Chapter 724 since January 2019,...
by EAA | Aug 17, 2024 | EAA, EAA Museum, EAA volunteers, volunteer, volunteers
This piece originally ran in the July 2024 issue of EAA Sport Aviation magazine. Gale Guilette, EAA 128629, is helping keep aviation history alive, one sheet of metal at a time. Once a week, Gale travels from his home in northern Wisconsin to volunteer in EAA’s...
by EAA | Jul 24, 2024 | AirVenture, EAA, EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2024, EAA member, Member Stories, volunteer, volunteers
By Jim Roberts Jeff Coffey spent 30 years as an air traffic controller, including 15 years working SUN ’n FUN, and nine tours wearing the distinctive pink shirt of an EAA AirVenture Oshkosh controller. Now retired from the FAA, in 2023 Jeff traded in his pink shirt...
by Angela Satterlee | Jul 21, 2024 | AirVenture, EAA, EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2024, EAA volunteers, volunteer, volunteers
Thomas Varep-Popov fell in love with aviation at the early age of 4, and his passion for it has only grown. Now, he has combined those feelings about aviation with his ability to brew signature coffee and opened Hangar 22 Coffee Roasters. Thomas and his wife, Jenna...
by EAA | Jul 12, 2024 | EAA, EAA chapter, EAA volunteers, volunteer, volunteers
By EAA This piece originally ran in the June 2024 issue of EAA Sport Aviation magazine. Ronald Liebmann, EAA 18367, remembers his aviation infatuation starting in kindergarten, watching Stearmans fly overhead in the Chicago sky after World War II. His uncle, Ed...
by EAA | Jun 12, 2024 | EAA Sport Aviation, Member Stories, volunteer, volunteers
Don and Shay Lusk, EAA 1475013 and 1495171, of EAA Chapter 586 in Show Low, Arizona, have a passion for sharing the wonders aviation has to offer with people of all ages. The post Volunteer Spotlight — Don and Shay Lusk first appeared on Hangar Flying. Read...
