Come join the fun and enjoy the spirit of camadarie that makes our airport friends and Gnoss Field such a special place.

Location is the Scanlon Aviation hangar at Gnoss Field. Food will be potluck with roasted turkey and baked ham slices provided. GFCA will provide beverages, includinge wine, beer and non-alcoholic drinks.

Music by Ukelele Friends Ohana (UFO), who performed at our 2019 holiday party. Be ready to dance the night away!

Potluck Request (turkey & ham provided):

A – H: Appetizers
I – R: Side Dish or Salad
S – Z: Dessert

Pilots and volunteers at Gnoss Field will offer youth from local groups their first flight in an airplane.

GFCA resumes monthly breakfast meetings at the Scanlon hangar on Gnoss Field. Breakfast burritos will be available as well as fruit and coffee. No charge this month due to generous donations to cover the costs. Thanks to Sue Royce and Stewart Emery.

Regretfully, with the rise in COVID cases in Marin County, we will postpone our August breakfast meeting.

As small airports in Northern California participating in CalDART (California Disaster Airlift Teams), we would like to invite you to the first of 3 planned events for this year for Everyone in North Bay DART. We encourage both volunteer pilots and ground assistants to join us.

Agenda:

• 11 AM – Gathering, meet and greet, introductions
• 12 (or so) – Lunch, hosted by the folks at KDVO
• 1 PM – General Discussion: Where we are, what the plan is, questions and answers.  A couple of specific topics:
  • Training Plan
  • Membership/Insurance
  • Recent Events – Airlift exercises for Yurok Tribe – PPE
  • Communications – Update on amateur radio links, need for operators
  • Planned September tabletop exercise – work flow process, forms, familiarization
  • October operational event, possibly coordinated with other DART operators

Rides – We encourage fly-in ride sharing, or driving (car pooling encouraged!)  Pilots can use this trip as supporting CalDART.

The Marin County Airport Land Use Commission (ALUC) meets by Zoom to determine consistency of a subdivision of Bahia River View. See this link for agenda and staff reports. The ALUC meets irregularly as an augmented Marin County Planning Commission with two aviation representatives, Jon Pittman and Richard Nave.

It’s been way too long-our last GFCA breakfast was in early February, 2019. Join us this Saturday (July 10) at 10:00 a.m. on the ramp immediately in front of the Scanlon Aviation hangar, when GFCA will cater this month’s breakast with an assortment of breakfast burritos, bagels, fruit, OJ, and of course, Charlie’s famously fortifying coffee. 

We won’t have a speaker this time as it will be great just to get together again. Look forward to seeing you all there!

Each holiday season, GFCA hosts a gathering to celebrate the friends among us with a passion for aviation.

CalDART operators (Gnoss Field is one) will conduct an exercise to practice the protocols and services of providing air transportation of cargo and passengers as might be needed to deal with an emergency.