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Welcome to the
 
Sacramento RVators
 

The Sacramento RVators are an informal group of people in Northern Californians interested in Van's RV series of aircraft and Harmon / F1 Rockets. We get together about once a month, usually at a members hangar or home, to look over their project.  We currently have 96 members, most of which  are located in and around the Sacramento area. However, We have members as far south as Stockton and as far north as Red Bluff.  We have 46 flying RV's in the club.

This web site is a supplement to our monthly newsletter. The intent is to have a place to store information from the newsletter that may be of interest to future builders and a method of communicating with the group on a ongoing basis.

If you are interested in joining our group, go to the membership page and download an application.

 I would like more input from the group.  Please send me your digital pictures with notes.  Anything about your aircraft, flight plans, experiences.  Also, If you have ideas to make this site more than it is currently, please let me know...If you have multiple pictures, please send me a link to any photo storage site, ie. Kodak.com,  www.flickr.com or others. Just upload your photos and pass the link on to me and I will take it from there.. Dave

      

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Next Meeting

SATURDAY
FEBRUARY 20TH, 2010

Next Meeting

Our next get together will be hosted by LarryBontrager on Saturday February 20th,  starting at 11:00 a.m. at his house 6140 Strawberry Station Loop, in Sun City  Roseville. He is building a RV-4 and has his fuselage in the jig. He will have food

and drink available.  Directions: From I 80 take hi-way 65 north towards

Lincoln for 3 miles, west on Blue Oaks for 3 miles then left on Del Webb Blvd for .39 miles, then left on Plum Canyon Lane for 130 feet and right on Strawberry Station Loop

JUNE FLY-IN @ NUT TREE

The June get together at Nut Tree was a little short on fly-ins but we had a great time. The chance of rain kept some away. Next time we will hope for better weather. We had about 40 people partake in the chicken, hot links, salads and desserts prepared by Jeff & Sheila Sharman, Tom & Larre Allen, and Jackie Martinson. Thank you for all your hard work.

Hosts Sheila and Jeff Sharman
 

May Weather Not Enough to Cancel for SACRVator

May 2009 Well the weather was not great, but we had a decent turnout regardless. Paul Kellas and Gretchen flew their RV-9A in from Cameron Park and several others drove in. As usual Frank Storm and Paula put on a great lunch with BBQ Tri-Tip and the fixings. Also thanks to the cook Phil Clevenger who slaved over the BBQ. Thanks Frank and Paula for hosting this event.


Frank and Phil checking out the meat


Some of those who braved the elements to attend

 

March Meeting a Big Success

The meeting was great. 10 RV’s flew in and a good number of members drove in. Thanks to our hosts Dave Holman and his wife Jamie for providing BBQ Tri-Tip and Chicken plus all the fixings. The weather couldn’t have been better. Dave’s RV-7 is looking great and may be flying this summer.


Dave and Jamie Holman

February Meeting

Wow! What a turn out. We had 18 RV’s show up of which 4 were RV-10’s. Kerry Richburg weighed 4 airplanes including Don’s. Dan Mauer gave a great talk on painting aircraft and answered many questions. We enjoyed checking out Don’s beautiful RV-10 which is getting close to certification. Thanks Don & Kim McDonald for hosting the meeting and feeding the roughly 50 people who showed up.



Don and Kim McDonald with their RV-10


 

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Here is a new link you may find useful. There are a lot of aviation events going on in the area.

Try the  search feature - enter your airport, the maximum distance you want to fly and the date range, and you get all the aviation related fly-ins and activities.

 

Link to Fly-in Calendar

 

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Looking for information on RV's? This link will do a Google search on all RV forums.

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