2019 RAF GRANT PROJECTS ADD RECREATIONAL ACCESS

May 30, 2019

The RAF is primarily volunteer-driven, meaning your donations go directly toward on-the-ground projects that further the RAF mission to preserve, maintain, and create airstrips for recreational access. Volunteer RAF state liaisons identify projects, then apply for RAF funds. A grants committee – made up of State Liaisons, RAF members and an RAF Director – then reviews…

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CUSTER-GALLATIN CALL TO ACTION

May 28, 2019

Your help is needed! Custer-Gallatin National Forest has released its Draft plan. The public comment period ends Thursday, June 6, 2019. This Forest encompasses more than three million acres in SW Montana and South Dakota. There are six mountain ranges within the Forest complex. Montana Liaison Ron Normandeau says this Draft “portrays a prejudice against…

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COMMUNITY TURNS OUT FOR WISCONSIN’S CORNUCOPIA AIRPORT

May 25, 2019

“This year’s annual Winter’s Finally Over (WFO) hangar party saw the biggest attendance we have ever had with well over two hundred people,” RAF Wisconsin Liaison Jeff Russell reports. The gathering happened on Saturday, May 18 at Morey Airport in Middleton, WI, and “was very successful and generated a lot of interest in the RAF, and $3,500 in…

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TRICIA MCKENNA

May 24, 2019

Administrative Director Spending her childhood outdoors with family in the mountains surrounding Butte, Montana, Tricia learned all there was to know about setting up a tent, cooking over a campfire and enjoying sharing stories around the fire under the night sky. Aviation was not something she spent much time thinking about. Along came boyfriend John,…

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STEVE MAUS

May 20, 2019

Montana and Texas Ambassador Day job: Estate and business succession planning Favorite airstrip: Ryan Field. There are friends from around the the world at the fire hub after sunset, coffee at sunrise at the barn, and great backcountry flying minutes away! Next adventure: Big Bend, Texas, San Juan’s and Pacific NW A veteran of the US Air Force, after…

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MIKE HERGENRATHER

May 20, 2019

Texas Ambassador Day job: I had one once. It got in the way of my personal life. Favorite airstrip: Johnson Creek, ID Next adventure: Taking my recently purchased Cessna TU-206 packed full of camping gear and grandchildren and heading into the mountains.

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