Category: Formation Stage
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The Club’s First Airplane
Here are a few photos I took of the airplane the club is leasing:
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First Club Meeting
Held the first club meeting. There were just three of us. This is a slightly redacted copy of meeting notes I emailed to all interested prospects: Hi all, Paul, David, and I met at the restaurant this afternoon. We decided that there were just enough of us to move forward on forming the club. According…
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Contact and Formation Info
If you have any questions or interest in joining the club, or have an airplane to lease, or have some other helpful information then you can let us know in any of these ways: Among the first steps in the club formation checklist is finding just two more people willing to be board members and…
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Cost Estimates to Join and Fly
The cost to join and fly depends on the number of club members and the consensus of minimum acceptable airplane. To provide some idea of the range of cost tradeoffs, I present below three examples. I tried to use conservative values, which means actual costs should be lower than shown. Since both AOPA and EAA…
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Club Formation Checklist
Forming a non-profit flying club can be done in an ad-hoc manner and succeed, but to avoid surprises I’ve attempted to compose a checklist that covers the main tasks that need to be performed. The tasks in this checklist need not, and likely wont, be done in the order shown. It is also probably missing…