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Our next meeting will be June 7, 2025. Details to come soon, mark your calendars now.
Our April 5, 2025 meeting
REPEAT Aircraft: Building the Classic Air Racers of the 1930s
Speaker Willie Turner and Byron May, our SAH President.
Willie Turner is the Vice President of Operations for the Hiller Aviation Museum at the San Carlos Airport since 1995.
Willie's flying career started when he would sit on his fathers lap and fly the plane. He earned his pilot's license in 1984 and has flown across the country
twice in an airplane that his mother built. His father was president of Repeat Aircraft that built and restored Golden Age Race Planes.
Willie will spoke about the Golden Age of Air Racing which lasted from 1929 to 1939, and was a testing and proving ground for new aviation technology. Willie
described this era and the story of his father, Bill Turner, who attended the air races as a young boy and in the early 1970s founded REPEAT Aircraft thereby
fulfilling a childhood dream by building eight Golden Age racers and one restoration of an original.
Our luncheon and meeting was held at Pinstripes in San Mateo.
Meeting photographs by Ron close.
Our Feb. 1, 2025 meeting
Cal Fire Pilot Jimmy Ferreira
Speaker Jimmy Ferreira and Byron May, our new President.
The Society for Aviation History started 2025 with a great luncheon at Wagon Wheel BBQ in Mountain View, on Saturday, February 1st. Byron May, the Society's new
president, conducted a packed agenda with announcements, tasty food, challenges, and an engaging guest speaker.
This next year will be Jimmy Ferreira's 24th fire season, and he will brought his view from the cockpit to share with us. He got his start in aviation
flying pipeline patrol in Citabrias, Super Cubs, and the Bellanca Scout. He also gave tail wheel instruction at Blue Ridge Aeronautics at Nut Tree
Airport, before moving on to fly air attack lead planes with Redding Aero in the Cessna 337 and 340.
From flying lead attack, Ferreira joined Neptune Aviation and flew 700 hours as copilot in the company's P2V air tankers. Ferreira then joined Cal Fire flying the
S-2 turbo Tracker. He's flown more than 2,500 hours in the type and is one of the state fire agency's instructor pilots. He also flew Cal Fire's lead attack OV-10
Bronco for more than 1,000 hours. Part of Ferreira's talk included the new C-130s coming on line with Cal Fire in the coming seasons.
Your 2025 board members as shown here are: Dave Osgood - V.P., Dan Morgan - Treasurer, Nick Veronico, Alice Hendricks, Roger Cain, Ron Close - Secretary,
John Jenkins, Michael Stein, and Byron May, our new President.
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