Fourteen Sun Lakes Aero Club members made the trip to Pima Airport for lunch January 22; left to right standing are Steve Perkins, Gary West, Jim Theobald, Dick Simmons, Paul Beek, Cannon Hill, Bob DeLong, Craig Day, Tom Howard, Chris Beauchamp, Gene Evans, John Philp and Ken Carpenter; kneeling is Gary Vacin.
Gary Vacin
The Sun Lakes Aero Club (SLAC) completed one of its most successful fly-ins in recent years when 14 members showed up in six aircraft for a lunch at Pima Airport just north of Marana January 22. The former military training base now is home to a company that performs maintenance and storage for dozens of huge commercial airliners. Pilots and their passengers included Gary West, Gene Evans and Dick Simmons in Steve Perkins’ Cessna 182; Bob DeLong in Paul Beek’s Bellanca Cruismaster; Chris Beauchamp and Jim Theobald in Tom Howard’s Cessna 180; Craig Day in Cannon Hill’s RV-6; John Philp and Ken Carpenter in their Grumman AA-1B; and Gary Vacin in his Grumman AA1.
SLAC sponsors fly-in breakfasts and field trips each month from November through April. The club’s next fly-in is March 24 to Payson. Addition information is available from Cannon Hill at 590-539-7857 or Gary Vacin at 298-7017.