The Beginning of GAPS

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 Bluebird News  @ KGVE 18123 Airport Road, Gordonsville, VA 22942

        

          The Bluebird Sings

(An informational column about KGVE)

Wow! What a weekend! Check out this formation of Cubs and Champs! (March 6&7, 2010)

Pictures taken by Skip Degan of Tailwheel Basics.com
 

More pictures to be added soon!

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Gordonsville Municipal Airport is proud to have the following businesses on its field:

Aero enterprises: Realize your full potential as a pilot. Whether your goal is beginning aerobatics, unusual attitude recovery, or adding a tailwheel endorsement to your pilot certificate...

Tailwheel Basics: "Thanks for the instruction. It paid off, I got the job."- recent U-2 pilot candidate- check it out.

Bluebird Aerodrome, LLC: Airport focal point for news and informaton.Bluebird

GORDONSVILLE AIRPORT'S LATEST PROJECT

Newest project at Gordonsville Airport is Bob Ross's RV 12!

Bob Ross is a member of GAPS and enjoys exchanging ideas about building his airplane with other GAPS members.

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Visit this link to see some funny elf-like pilots having some Christmas fun... Pilot Elves.

Also check out a Sonex based at KGVE and owned by John Bosque being flown at Gordonsville Muncipal Airport , VA. Flying Sonex.

Below: Current approach for 230 at KGVE after runway obstructions removed.

GAPS 

Preserving the grass roots aviation community by filling in the gaps between: past and future, antique and LSA (Light Sport Aviation), experimental and general aviation aircraft, and our local pilots and community.

FEMALE PILOTS TO CELEBRATE CENTENNIAL!

Free: First flights offered by Gordonsville Airport (Gordonsville, VA) female pilot(s) March 6 - March 12 to any female daring enough to go! Women pilots around the world are celebrating the 100th anniversary of the first time a woman pilot earned a pilot certificate by taking a woman or girl for her first flight in a general aviation aircraft.

Raymonde De Laroche, a French balloonist, learned to fly a fixed-wing aircraft and was the first woman to receive her pilot's certificate March 8, 1910.

Groups such as The Ninety-Nines, Women in Aviation International, International Society of Woman Airline Pilots, EAA and other groups will be participating as well.

Women pilots are encouraged to sign up to fly other women and girls at http://www.centennialofwomenpilots.com/

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Attention all Virginia airplane

 IA qualified mechanics!

 Richmond FISDO will offer its annual IA renewal seminare

The Richmond Flight Standards District Office will hold its 8-hour
Inspection Authorization and Aviation Maintenance Technician Training
Seminar on Saturday, March 20, 2010. The seminar will be held at the
Virginia Department of Aviation State Hangar, 5702 Gulfstream Road,
Richmond International Airport, Virginia. The seminar is from 8:00 a.m. to
5:00 p.m. with registration starting at 7:30 a.m.

The following guest speakers will be presenting during the seminar:
      Mr. Richard A. Peri, Vice President of Government & Industry Affairs,
      Aircraft Electronics Association
      Mr. Peter L. Rouse, FAA Aircraft Certification Office, Small Aircraft
      Directorate
      Mr. Jeff Slaughter, Frontline Airworthiness Manager, Richmond FSDO
Attendance meets the renewal requirements of 14 CFR Part 65.93(a)(4).

If you have any questions or need additional information concerning the
training seminar or Inspection Authorization Renewals, please contact our
office at (804) 222-7494.

NOTE: Even though the renewal requirements have now gone to two years. You
must continue to meet the requirements of 65.93 yearly.

Calling All Pilots!

Pilots cannot exercise the privileges of their PAPER pilot certificates after March 31, 2010.
Certificates issued under 14 CFR Part 61 and 65 will expire March 31, 2013.

FAR 61.19(h) reads:
Duration of pilot certificates. Except for a temporary certificate issued under §61.17 or a student pilot certificate issued under paragraph (b) of this section, the holder of a paper pilot certificate issued under this part may not exercise the privileges of that certificate after March 31, 2010.

To Change your certificate number from your SSN and request a replacement click here.

To Replace your Airmen Certificate click
 here.

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Cool Video:

Ford Tri Motor does aerobatics!

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Dennis Harbin, one of our GAPS members is preserving the past.

Visit the rebirthing of a   Cessna 140 by Dennis Harbin of Rag Bag Aero Works a current member of GAPS. and a WACO 9

Bluebird Aerodrome, LLC and GAPS: Gordonsville Airport Preservation Society (Now pending IRS non-profit status) and the people associated with said groups are not affiliated with nor do they have any control over Gordonsville Municipal Airport ownership and/or management.

GAPS is a nonprofit organization (pending IRS paper work return) and exist only for the promotion, preservation and innovation of general aviation and community involvement with aviation.

Bluebird Aerodrome, LLC acts as a focal point for the general aviation community for restoration and  the promotion of community involvement in the preservation and historic value of general aviation at the Gordonsville Municipal Airport in Gordonsville, VA. 

Both organizations are not for profit. We do not run a business at the airport but provide such services as mowing grass, providing clean rest rooms, and historic information about the airport to the visiting community.

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Light Sport Aviation News

New Electric Airplane

e430

Touted at a 3 hour leg and designed by the Chinese, will this be the future of aircraft?

 Terrafugia

In the spirit of GA and innovation at KGVE we are highlighting this manufacturer on our page. It is another version of the car with wings. It is currently an experimental wanna be LSA.This link shows it actually flying.