We have just received word that COPA 45 members Keith Brautigam and
Don Matheson both have COPA awards to be presented at the AGM in Hanover.





 

CYCE’s Rust Remover
 April  2012

Saturday April 14 2012  was COPA 177’s first rust remover. Weather was marginal but some managed to fly into the event despite a forecast of increased winds and rain after lunch. Coffee and donuts greeted us after we registered and we enjoyed some plane talk.  Read More...

LYME DISEASE – A Survivor’s Story
March 2012
By M. Bruinsma

With the arrival of spring and summer weather comes much more flying by pilots and their passengers. This year of 2012 is no exception with the IPAT at the end of May and the COPA Convention in Hanover in late June. With warm weather comes bugs, black flies and mosquitoes.

At COPA 45’s March meeting, we heard Lyn Jerome from Clinton tell us his long and uncertain journey with a tick bite which resulted in him being off work for approximately two years. Lyn, an avid R/C aviator, was flying his radio controlled aircraft in a ravine. He went to retrieve his stray aircraft when he was bitten by a tick. Like any other bug bite, Lyn shrugged it off--just another one of those pesky black fly or mosquito bites, he thought. Read More...

Recognition Night
Balls retire B & B Aircraft Services
Feb 2012

For COPA 45 February is the month to have a mid-winter dinner social to cut the winter blues for those not vacationing in the sunny south. This year we decided to have a surprise recognition night for Allan and Sylvia Ball who recently retired from their aviation business of B & B Aircraft Services located west of the Goderich Airport. Read More...
 

Canadian Owners and Pilots Association (COPA) Releases a Review of the
Pickering Lands Needs Assessment Study -  September 30, 2011 

 Transport Canada (TC) engaged the Greater Toronto Airports Authority (GTAA) to conduct a Study of the need for retention of the Pickering Lands for an airport and their report contains some alarming observations and recommendations about General Aviation (GA). Read More...

New Functionality in eAPIS - August 10, 2010
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Twelve Seconds of Destruction
By M. Bruinsma

It only took 12 seconds to devastate Goderich, Canada's prettiest town on Sunday August 21.With only seconds of warning, the funnel cloud crossed Lake Huron creating over 2 ft. waves. It travelled over Rotary Cove roared up West Street straight through Courthouse Square down East Street cross country to Benmiller clocking winds from 250 to 300 km. Winds at CYGD were 87km. The airport, hangars and aircraft were spared. Sandy Wellman of Sky Harbour Aircraft sustained no damage either. Read More...

Oshkosh 2011
By Marilyn Bruinsma

The end of July and another Oshkosh is over. How sad to say good bye to all our friends with whom we have camped. COPA 45's Fred and Marilyn Bruinsma attended the 2011 AirVenture. Plan A was to fly there and camp under the wing of the Cavalier in Homebuilt camping. E-APIS filed and plane packed,  Read More...