EAA Chapter 186

We meet on the 4th Tuesday each month. IMC Club at 7 PM. VMC Club at 8 PM. Come for one or both sessions; we usually meet beforehand at 5:30 PM for informal dinner at the Panera Bread at Bristow Center. The IMC Club’s purpose is to promote instrument flying proficiency, safety and education through a community of pilots sharing information and fostering communications. You don’t have to be instrument rated to come to the IMC Club.

The VMC Club, for pilots wishing to improve their VFR flying proficiency, is modeled after the popular IMC Club providing organized “hangar flying” with a focus on VFR procedures, regulations and publications.

TR Proven and Chuck Kyle are our facilitators for these meetings but the attendees are encouraged to participate with their knowledge and experience. Each one-hour meeting earns you one credit toward the FAA Wings Pilot Proficiency program.

On Saturday June 7 several Chapter 186 members helped at the “Women Can Build” activity where participants learn the basics of filing, installing clecos, drilling, deburring and riveting. We helped 52 participants build a cell phone charger/stand. An assembly line kept the process moving. This was a very rewarding experience. Please consider helping with this activity next year. No aircraft building experience is required. This was part of the annual Women Can Fly event at Warrenton Airport where 192 girls and women received an airplane ride.

Our speaker this month will be Richard “Dick” Genaille with the Virginia Aeronautical Historical Society (VAHS). Dick will present “Firsts in Flight Along the Potomac” on the early aviation history of Virginia. The presentation addresses The Civil War Balloon Corps, Samuel Langley and development of the first heavier than air mechanically driven aircraft,
testing and acquisition of the first military dirigible and the first military piloted and controllable heavier than air aircraft at Fort Myer, the history of Washington-Hoover Airport where the Pentagon is now, the origins and construction of Washington National Airport, the first modern airport in the U.S. and the early history of Bolling Field and Anacostia Naval Station, the first U.S. military “joint base.” Dick has spent hundreds of hours collecting and analyzing information about early aviation in Virginia. This is a high level summary of several other presentations he has presented. This one concentrates on events along the Potomac River from Washington to Quantico. You may learn some new aviation firsts! Join us at 10:00 AM for the meeting and 9:20 AM for coffee and doughnuts.

Remember there will not be a meeting on the fourth Saturday of July since that will coincide with AirVenture. If you are at AirVenture, please attend our gathering at Tailwinds Café at 8:00 AM on Tuesday July 22. Breakfast is on your own but we will try to grab a couple tables early. Tailwinds Cafe is near the Forums area, on the south side of the Homebuilders’ Hangar. Take the Red Tram to the Forums and Workshops stop, walk east on Galatin Ave between the Workshop buildings then look left for the Tailwinds Café. Or from the Blue Barn, walk east through the grass between the Forums building and look for Tailwinds Café. Map Coordinates are K-9.

ONLINE APPLICATIONS
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CHAPTER MEMBERSHIP FEES

$30 Jan–Dec Single Member Dues
$35 Jan-Dec Family Member Dues
$12 for Name Tag and postage
$12 – hard copy of Directory (printing & mailing)
$2 surcharge if paying by PayPal

Chapter 186 has helped with partial tuition costs for three kids to attend EAA Air Academy this June and July. Xavier and Frank will go to Discover Camp in mid-June and Dag will go to Explore Camp just before AirVenture. Find additional information on course content, lodge accommodations and registration at https://www.eaa.org/eaa/youth/eaa-aviation-and-flight-
summer-camps. Updated information (course content, ages, costs) and on-line registration for the June and July 2026 camps will be available on September 3, 2025. Parents: Registration will fill up very quickly in early September.

Scholarships

Below is a list of scholarships from other organizations in Virginia plus the bigger EAA and AOPA lists. Many of these are for application during the high school senior year. The AOPA and EAA lists have quite a few that do not apply to everyone (geographical or age/gender restrictions) but are worth searching through to find the applicable ones. Some are for all ages! These are not Chapter 186 scholarships but are presented here as a resource. Instructions are found in the linked information.

Virginia Aviation Business Association: Charles J. Colgan Scholarship – https:// www.thevaba.org/colgan-application

Virginia Department of Aviation: https://doav.virginia.gov/virginia-aviation-scholarships/

Willard G. Plentl Sr. Aviation Scholarship

John R. Lillard Foundation Aviation Scholarship

Kenneth R. Scott Aviation Scholarship

Chad Weaver Aviation Scholarship

Virginia Aeronautical Historical Society: Captain Earle Worley Scholarship https://www.vahsonline.com/programs/aviation-
scholarships/

AOPA: Numerous aviation scholarships: https://www.aopa.org/training-and-safety/students/aopa-flight-training-scholarships

EAA:
Numerous aviation scholarships https://www.eaa.org/eaa/learn-to-fly/scholarships/eaa-
flight-training-scholarships

We had a successful Young Eagles rally May 10 at Warrenton Airport. We flew 40 kids with 6
aircraft.

June 14 – 0900 at Manassas – CANCELLED
July 12 – 0900 at Manassas
August 9 – 0900 at Manassas

Ground and Pilot Volunteers: If you would like to be a Young Eagles volunteer (pilot or ground) please click on “Volunteer Registration” at events.eaachapters.org. That puts you in the volunteer database. About two/three weeks prior to a Young Eagles Rally, we prompt the events.eaachapters.org system to send an email to everyone in our Young Eagles volunteer database, inviting you to click on “confirm” or “will not attend.” Expect an automatic reminder email again on Wednesday three days prior to the Young Eagles Rally asking you to confirm again that you are still planning to volunteer. This assures you will get the Thursday two-days-to-go email to volunteers other notices if anything changes. Young Eagles flights are available to kids between ages 8 and 17. We normally hold our rallies on the second Saturday each month. We use two time slots 9:00 AM and 11:00 AM in the warmer months. Parents can register at events.eaachapters.org beginning at 8:00 AM on the 1st of each month.

Chapter 186 Young Eagles Coordinators
David Richards
Bob Prange

Please join us for our nest Young Eagles Rally on Saturday, July 12th. Registration begins July 1st! We look forward to seeing you there!

Young Eagles rally for 6/14/25 has been cancelled due to unfavorable flying conditions. Please check this page in the coming days for a rain date!

Online Applications: https://nds.qgi.mybluehost.me/events/eaa-chapter-186-
membership-online-application-2025/

To order a nametag, go to: https://nds.qgi.mybluehost.me/events/eaa-chapter-186-name-tag-order-form-
paypal-only/.

CHAPTER MEMBERSHIP FEES
$30 Jan–Dec Single Member Dues
$35 Jan-Dec Family Member Dues

$12 for Name Tag and postage
$12 – hard copy of Directory (printing & mailing)
$2 surcharge if paying by PayPal