Annual Meeting and Saturday Workshops
on COVID-19 Hold

Annual Meeting and Workshops on COVID-19 Hold: HAWK Aviators www.hawkaviators.org
HAWK Aviators
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The High-Country Aviation Workshop for Kids Leadership has decided to postpone our Annual Members Meeting and election of officers until this Spring. This is due to the continuing Covid- 19 restrictions. We are tentatively planning to meet sometime within the month of April. This should benefit us with some warmer weather and give us the opportunity to open up the Hangar doors for the meeting, and have an open air experience.on COVID-19 Hold

In anticipation of our upcoming Annual Members meeting, remember that in order to be eligible to vote, each member must be paid up with their dues, so they are in good standing.

The membership dues are $ 35.00 per year for adults 18 and over
reduced to $ 25.00 per year for active EAA members
$ 10.00 per year for youth members
They can be sent to this address: P.O. Box 321 Loma, CO. 81524

The opening of the regular, formal HAWK programs for youth have also been postponed until the beginning of March, 2021, due to Mesa county health department recommendations. We anticipate making an updated announcement around the middle of February giving more exact details about re-opening our program. We want to thank all of our members for their support during this past year and are very much looking forward to this new year.

Thanks again,

Bruce Erickson, Secretary

Securing a SONEX-HAWK Trip to Wyoming

2 Sonex aircraft owned by HAWK mentors, with winglet wing tip extensions designed and crafted by HAWK General Manager Tim Allen Courtesy & © Bruce Erickson, Photographer
2 Sonex aircraft owned by HAWK mentors, with winglet wing tip extensions designed
and crafted by HAWK General Manager Tim Allen
Courtesy & © Bruce Erickson, Photographer

NEW SONEX KIT
A builder in Cheyenne, WY made a partially completed Sonex kit available to HAWK for a price we could not refuse. Two of our members have Sonex aircraft, so this is a craft with which we are quite familiar. It comes with a Jabiru motor mount, but no motor. Coincidentally, a couple years ago another builder in Green River, WY gave us a Jabiru motor with 500 to 600 hours on it. We hope to make an aircraft from these two transactions.

Since AirVenture 2020 was cancelled due to the Pandemic, our Junior Members missed their out-of-town trip this summer. As a substitute trip, General Manager Tim Allen took a half dozen of them in the bus on the overnight trip (including camping at the airport) to retrieve this kit and bring it home.

Krista is a pilot!

Krista is a pilot!

Shockingly enough, I’ve been a “good influence” on young people once or twice.

Krista is one of the few female members of the High Country Aviation Workshop for Kids (HAWK) in Mack Mesa, Colorado. I interviewed her in 2017 for an article I wrote for EAA Sport Aviation magazine about the amazing work that this non-profit organization does getting kids involved in aviation.

I visited her home airport a couple years ago and she came along in the backseat when I took the A-Star up for a whirl. She shadowed me at Oshkosh in 2018 and 2019, getting a behind the scenes peek of EAA AirVenture media. You can imagine my shock when people kept asking if she was my daughter! (I guess there IS a resemblance.)

I’m not her mama, but I am SO PROUD of her shiny new private pilot certificate! Her voice, in the final paragraph of the story I wrote:

“The sky is such a different place; it’s like a different world,” she said. “You get freedom that you don’t get anywhere else.” Krista thinks she would like to become airline pilot. “I can’t imagine myself flying those huge airplanes, but I think I could do it,” she said. “I have no doubt that I’ll be able to become a pilot because of HAWK. This is the best thing I’ve ever done in my life.”

Beth Stanton,

As posted by Beth on Facebook 18 August 2020
Reposted on HAWKaviators.org with permission.

Krista is a pilot!: Beth, Krista & Alouette's Eurocopter France Mack-Mesa Flat Tire Weekend, May 2018 Photo Courtesy & © Beth Stanton, Photographer
Beth, Krista & Alouette’s Eurocopter France
Mack-Mesa Flat Tire Weekend, May 2018
Photo Courtesy & © Beth Stanton, Photographer
Krista and Beth at AirVenture 2019 Courtesy & © Beth Stanton
Krista and Beth at
AirVenture 2019
Courtesy & © Beth Stanton
Krista and Beth Inspecting the Seaplanes at AirVenture 2019 Courtesy & © Beth Stanton
Krista and Beth
Inspecting the Seaplanes at
AirVenture 2019
Courtesy & © Beth Stanton
Krista and Beth Testing the feel of a gryocopter AirVenture 2019 Courtesy & © Beth Stanton
Krista and Beth
Testing the feel of a gryocopter
AirVenture 2019
Courtesy & © Beth Stanton
Krista with her certificate and examiner Courtesy & © Bryan Miller
Krista with her certificate and Bradley Sullivan, DPE
Courtesy & © Bryan Miller

Clements, Eddie, Mack-Mesa Flat Tire Event, 2018, https://hawkaviators.org/fat-tire-weekend-report/

Krista’s HAWK Adventure

Bruce and Krista with her Certificate Courtesy & © Bruce Erickson, Chris McCallum, Photographer
Bruce and Krista with her Certificate
Courtesy & © Bruce Erickson, Chris McCallum, Photographer
Bruce and Krista with her Certificate Courtesy & © Bruce Erickson, Chris McCallum, Photographer
Bruce and Krista with her Certificate
Courtesy & © Bruce Erickson, Chris McCallum, Photographer
Bruce and Krista with her Certificate Courtesy & © Bruce Erickson, Chris McCallum, Photographer
Bruce and Krista with her Certificate
Courtesy & © Bruce Erickson, Chris McCallum, Photographer
Bruce and Krista with her Certificate Courtesy & © Bruce Erickson, Chris McCallum, Photographer
Bruce and Krista with her Certificate
Courtesy & © Bruce Erickson, Chris McCallum, Photographer
Krista with her Certificate Courtesy & © Bruce Erickson, Photographer
Krista with her Certificate
Courtesy & © Bruce Erickson, Photographer
Krista with her Certificate Courtesy & © Bruce Erickson, Photographer
Krista with her Certificate
Courtesy & © Bruce Erickson, Photographer
Krista with her Certificate Courtesy & © Bruce Erickson, Photographer
Krista with her Certificate
Courtesy & © Bruce Erickson, Photographer
Krista with her Certificate Courtesy & © Bruce Erickson, Photographer
Krista with her Certificate
Courtesy & © Bruce Erickson, Photographer

Another HAWK Natural pilot Courtesy & © John Caldwell, Photographer
Another HAWK Natural pilot
Courtesy & © John Caldwell, Photographer
Junior Member and Student Pilot Christa soloed on June 12 and completed her long cross-country on June 23….. we knew she was a natural!…..
From Newsletter, Summer 2020 [John Caldwell]

Krista flying home from AirVenture 2019, Courtesy & © Shay Boe
Krista flying home from AirVenture 2019, Courtesy & © Shay Boe

Along with young eagles, Sterling H. has given many hours of flight instruction with Krista J., William M., William S., Logan B., Braden H. and many others. From HAWK Aviators July – Jan. 2019 [Braden Hobbs]

Krista, Britton, Bruce, Samuel at the balloon display. AirVenture 2019 Courtesy & © Shay Boe
Krista, Britton, Bruce, Samuel at the balloon display.
AirVenture 2019
Courtesy & © Shay Boe

N13245. the 172 Russel Franke gave HAWK is progressing nicely. Solomon, Krista and Jaden have the hail damaged wing skins drilled off. And Krista and Braden are riveting the new flap skin on and are about finished. Krista has all the new skins fit for the elevators and trim tab and is working on reassembly. Again Hightower Supply came through and supplied the Sherman Williams epoxy primer for the project. The 172 will be totally primed inside all the areas where the skins are removed and replaced. Krista and Braden are doing an awesome job of riveting the skins back on the flap. From April, May, June [2018] Newsletter [Eddie Clements]

Christa and her competed tool box. &@169; Eddie Clements, Photographer
Christa and her competed tool box.
&@169; Eddie Clements, Photographer

The Tool Box Program
This program really shows the kids how to do aircraft type sheet metal work. And is very active. There are about 20 boxes in various stages of construction plus more than 10 finished. Tristan, Ryan, his brother , and Collin are doing a very good job on their boxes and should progress to aircraft work shortly. Collin is working on the 172 mentored by Christa[Krista]. From January- February and March 2018 Newsletter Newsletter [Eddie Clements]

Kids rigging the HAWK Balloon for flight. Braden inflated it this time. He is working on a balloon rating with several other kids including Krista who is looking at the camera. Caden, Jake and William received instruction after each landing and kid change. Courtesy Eddie Clements, Photographer
Kids rigging the HAWK Balloon for flight. Braden inflated it this time.
He is working on a balloon rating with several other kids including Krista who is looking at the camera. Caden, Jake and William received instruction after each landing and kid change.
Courtesy Eddie Clements, Photographer

William Completes Solo

William Completes Solo: Bryan Miller Congratulates William for Completing His First Solo Image Courtesy Bryan Miller, CFII
Bryan Miller Congratulates William for Completing His First Solo
Image Courtesy Bryan Miller, CFII
"William soloed this morning and things will certainly be picking up for him in the coming weeks.. January will be his check ride!"–Bryan Miller, HAWK President and CFIIWilliam Completes Solo

Background (from our recent newsletter):
"The Aviation Scholarship Fund is a program, managed by the Experimental Aircraft Association (national) and administered through the EAA Chapter network. This program provides up to $10,000 to deserving youths for their flight training expenses. HAWK flight instructor Bruce Erickson took the initiative to get the local EAA Chapter 800 approved for this program, HAWK Member Randy Owen was selected to administer the funds and supervise the student, and HAWK Junior Member William was approved as its first Scholar. Initial funding has been received, and William’s lessons have begun. If EAA continues this program in years after 2020, HAWK has a ready pipeline of aspiring future participants."–John Caldwell, HAWK Finance Director.

William Completes Solo
William Completes Solo