American Navion Society

Thanks to member Russ Derickson, he reached out to a local FFA contact and we have an offer of donation-based volunteer transportation. Please see the attached.

Rental Car Info now available

Hartford Municipal Airport is not set up for rental cars. If you need to rent a car, you can reserve one for pickup at West Bend Air (the FBO at West Bend Municipal Airport). To reserve,
• Go to www. enterprise.com and reserve online.
• Once you have your reservation, call the West Bend Enterprise office at 262-335-2660 (option 4 to get a person. Jamie is who we have been working with).
• Let them know that you are with the American Navion Society, are flying for our event, and want to pick up a car at the West Bend Airport (KETB) or need to be picked up at KETB and brought to the Enterprise office.
• We are working to get an agreement with West Bend Air, but until then pickup will need to be during office hours: Monday–Friday 8:00 am to 5:30 pm CDT and Saturday 9:00 am to noon. Once the agreement is in place pick up at the airport will be available
• Returns can be made at the office. After hours drop off is available at the West Bend office, just need to let them know you plan to. Returns at the airport, including after-hours, will be available once the agreement with Enterprise and West Bend Air is in place.
• Another option is to rent your vehicle through the Slinger office, 262-346-2107 (reserve online first) and fly into Hartford. Someone will need to shuttle you to the Slinger office (15 min). The hours for that location are Monday–Friday, 8:00 am to 5:30 pm After hours drop off is not available at this location.

For anyone planning to compete for Flagship, here is link to an article written by Phil Finet after he won Flagship. In the documents library on navionsociety.org, look for the "Flagship Judging" document. It explains some of judging criteria that will be used by our judges. Typically, Hal Kading, Phil Finet and Rick Mills.

Entrants, start cleaning! Only a month to go.

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A box of hand-held radios just showed up from Sporty's Pilot Shop, as a donation for our banquet raffle. Come join us at the Convention and get your chance to win one of these radios.

A great big Thank You to Sporty's for supporting ANS!

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Today is the original deadline for Convention Sign-ups. Please get your registrations emailed to Rick Mills to make sure that we have a spot for you at all of the events! Late registrations can be sent, but we can't guarantee that we can get you into everything. If you have questions, please reach out to Rick Mills, Eric Rice, or Dave Bejvan. Our contact information is listed in the Navioneer.

Just to clarify, our seating for the Brewers Game is under cover, so no need to worry about the weather. That sign-up includes your ticket, food and beverages, so come have a great time.

Other events are the Harley Davidson Museum, a brewery tour, the Wisconsin Auto Museum and a trip to the EAA museum at Oshkosh. In addition, an editor for Sport Aviation has reached out and would like to do an article on our Convention.

Registration forms can be found on the Convention Tab at navionsociety.org or in the email that should have received from our email distribution on Monday.

Who is coming to convention??? Our deadline is coming up on May 14th. Registering by then is the only way to guarantee tickets to the Brewers game, which is rain or shine, since we will be under a covered area. A little rain will not keep us from having a great time! Come join us!

Also, please consider applications to the board, nominations for Navioneer of the Year and the Nancy Judy award!

Convention 2026 Registration forms are now available at navionsociety.org. Just click on the Convention link and find this year's registration form, nomination form for Navioneer of the Year, Nancy Judy Memorial Award and for Board of Directors. Please submit those nominations! Don't assume someone else is doing it.

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We know that everyone has been patiently waiting for more information on this year's convention, so we just wanted to let you know that things are coming together. So, to expand on information already shared in recent Navioneers, here are some teasers about this June.

How about an airport that is a true pilot's airport?
-HXF has a 3,400' X 75' paved runway and crossing 2,250' grass runway
-It's an airport that on any nice evening, when the airplanes get pushed into the hangars, the grills get pulled out.
-Hartford is home to Cub Air. A flight school that specializes in instruction in the Piper J-3 Cub. You might want to stay a few extra days and add that tailwheel endorsement. Cub Air's Steve Krog will be hosting, along with the very active local pilot community.

How about lots of activities in "America's Dairyland"
-a fly or drive out to KOSH to visit the EAA museum? Maybe even log a landing a Pioneer Field?
-Tour a local Brewery that not only makes great beer, but soft drinks, especially root beer? (Yes, Rusty. You finally get a locally brewed root beer!)
-Catch a Milwaukee Brewers game?
-Did you know that Milwaukee is the home to Harley Davidson and the Harley Museum?
-Can you go to Wisconsin and not stock-up on local fresh cheeses?

All of these thing, plus our typical events like the contests, recognition, the welcome cookout, breakfast and banquet, plus many other optional activities will be happening.

Come join us in Hartford Wisconsin June 14th-20th!

Final details and sign-up sheets will be posted here and on navionsociety.org very soon!

We finally have our last recognition from the 2025 Convention!

Included in the submissions for Navioneer of the Year, was one that the Board felt really needed it's own special recognition, due to the scope of the efforts by this member.

The announcement here has taken so long, because the presentation of the award was a surprise to the recipient and the opportunity to present it has just recently occurred.

On October 11th, during the Culpeper Air Fest, Board member Eric Rice and member Kevin Woodside (White Hawk Aviation) were able to recognize Kley Parkhurst for his outstanding efforts in supporting many humanitarian aid organizations, with a special ANS Humanitarian Award.

The full text of the recognition is attached, but in summary, in 2024 alone, Kley flew nearly 1,000 hours of community benefit missions for many groups. Some of these include Angel Flight, Pilots N Paws and Relief Missions to areas flooded by Hurricane Helene. Kley will gladly tell anyone who listens, that he has a lot of support in making these missions happen, but he is the catalyst.

If you haven't seen Kley's many posts on his missions, his efforts have touched the lives of many, many people.

Kley, from your Navion family, Thank You for all that you do!

Our Tech session on Tuesday is being taught by a FAAST instructor and he plans to get us FAA Wings credit. I told him to plan for around 30, but please comment if you plan to join the tech session.