Archive for May 2019
JEFFREY IORIO
Arizona Ambassador Day job: Financial Advisor, Asset Manager, Life Insurance Specialist. Business consultation. Favorite airstrip: I have two: Elmers’ Point in North Dakota and Chicken Strip. I haven’t landed at Chicken Strip. But I keep looking at it and hope that it will not be taken out of use. It has a hot springs a quarter mile from…
Read MoreMARGIE PRILL
Vice President of Appreciation mprill@theraf.org
Read MorePENNY HERGENRATHER
Vice President of Appreciation I’m a body energy practitioner and I love adventure, which my darling husband so willingly provides. Life is nothing if not a daring adventure! phergenrather@theraf.org
Read MoreCARMINE MOWBRAY
Publicity Liaison Remember when avgas was 68¢ a gallon? Carmine was just learning to fly in a 150-hp TriPacer, and wondered how to afford to keep flying. These four decades later, she still loves flying. “I’ll give up lattés, professional pedicures and even shoes to keep flying,” she says. So far, it hasn’t gotten to that point. …
Read MoreCODY WELLONS
Graphic Design Volunteer Cody Wellons has had a lifelong interest in aviation, although he didn’t actually start flying until 2014 after being inspired while taking a scenic floatplane flight while visiting Alaska. Since then, he has obtained his private pilot certificate and a few endorsements (tailwheel, high performance and complex), and is slowly working toward…
Read MoreERIN WHITE
Volunteer Coordinator Erin’s appetite for adventure began in college. After a tame suburban upbringing in Silicon Valley, she headed north to Chico State University, where she began signing up for adventure outings. After a few burly hikes and sweaty mountain biking adventures, she was officially hooked on outdoor recreation. Since then, she’s tallied up many…
Read MoreSTEVE TAYLOR
Director Steve Taylor grew up in and around airplanes. He soloed a Super Cub on this 16th birthday and got his pilot’s license on his 17th. His career at Boeing included assignments as the President of Boeing Business Jets, and Chief Pilot for Commercial Airplanes, giving him the distinction of having flown on all seven…
Read MoreTODD SIMMONS
Director Aviation is in Todd’s DNA. His father was a U.S. Army flight surgeon; one grandfather a B-26 pilot during WWII, the other a crop duster. An uncle flew A-4’s in Vietnam; another uncle hunted enemy submarines in a Sea King for the Navy; yet another served as Beechcraft’s chief structures engineer for the Starship, the…
Read MoreR. PETER BURWELL
Director Emeritus Peter is President and CEO of Burwell Enterprises, Inc., based in Minneapolis. Burwell’s holdings include the Madison Concourse Hotel and Governor’s Club, a 367-room hotel adjacent to Wisconsin’s Capitol building; Country Springs Hotel and Water Park in Waukesha, WI; Echo Mountain ski area just outside of Denver in Idaho Springs, CO; and C…
Read MorePETER BUNCE
Director In April 2005, Peter (Pete) Bunce became President and CEO of the General Aviation Manufacturers Association (GAMA) which is headquartered in Washington, D.C. with additional offices in Brussels, Belgium. He and the GAMA staff travel worldwide engaging regulators, policy makers and elected officials to promote general aviation and advance the interests of GAMA’s international…
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