EAA Chapter 571 Annapolis, MD

12/06/2025

Our December meeting will be a holiday gathering! Regular date, time, and place (7:00 pm EST, Thursday December 18, Pilot Lounge at W29 Bay Bridge Airport 206 Airport Rd, Stevensville MD). All current and former members, EAA'ers from other chapters, and anyone interested in finding out more about belonging to EAA are encouraged to attend. For more details, and to announce your desire to attend (and pot luck item you plan to bring) please RSVP to [email protected] -- for now, save the date!

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09/19/2023

Meeting Announcement!

Thursday September 21, 18:30 EDT/22:30 UTC
202 Airport Rd
Stevensville, MD 21666
Bay Bridge Airport W29, Pilot Lounge

This coming Thursday, September 21 2023, EAA 571 will hold its monthly meeting. This will be our last cookout of the year and the weather looks fabulous so plan to come early. We'll start slinging burgers and dogs around 18:30 EDT/22:30 UTC and start the meeting around 19:15/23:15.

For this month's entertainment, 571 President and Chief Grease Monkey Dan Wroe will haul his recently acquired PPC out of the hangar and demonstrate a rebuild of the carburetor and fuel pump.

IMPORTANT REMINDER: W29 is still closed to air traffic due to the runway reconstruction. ALWAYS CHECK YOUR NOTAMS.

We hope to see you there whether you're a current member, prospective member, or just looking for some hangar bum companionship and a free sandwich.

08/17/2023

The August meeting for EAA 571 will be held as usual on Third Thursday -- August 17, 2023 -- at 19:00. We will have our usual summer meeting cookout starting around 18:30. The menu is hamburgers, hot dogs, chips, hummus, spinach dip, carrots, and cauliflower. Bring offerings if so inclined.

We continue to meet in the Pilot Lounge at Bay Bridge Airport (W29). The runway reconstruction project is in full swing, so no flying to the meeting until maybe November (unless you have a helicopter).

The meeting program will almost certainly be a lively discussion of this year's OSH and the recently opened NPRM for the new MOSAIC rules, along with other possible show-n-tell items and club member news.

Hope to see you there.

11/18/2022

Our December meeting will be a holiday gathering! Regular date, time, and place (7:00 pm EST, Thursday December 15, Pilot Lounge at W29 Bay Bridge Airport 206 Airport Rd, Stevensville MD). All current and former members, EAA'ers from other chapters, and anyone interested in finding out more about belonging to EAA are encouraged to attend. More details to come -- for now, save the date!

09/05/2022

A friendly reminder that our next monthly meeting will be held in the pilot lounge at Bay Bridge Airport on Thursday, September 15. This is the earliest a third Thursday can occur, so we wanted to get the reminder out as early as possible.

We will once again have a burgers & dogs cook-out at around 6:30 pm before beginning the meeting at 7:00. Kathy Harkness is giving an informal presentation about the process of earning an FAA Light Sport Repairman Maintenance rating, and the ins and outs of the range of maintenance ratings that now exist, how they are earned, and what privileges they convey.

Please bring any show-and-tell items you might have — seeing what everyone is up to is always the highlight of the evening. Hope to see you there!

02/27/2022

In response to suggestions from members, and in an effort that will hopefully benefit our westernmost 571 members which have been inconvenienced by the forced relocation of our meetings, the chapter has entered into a joint venture with interested parties based at Essex Skypark (W48) to hopefully stand up an EAA presence that will serve not just that airport (which has experienced a near miraculous rebirth after being on the verge of closure), but an entire region of the state that is currently without an organized EAA community.
In a meeting at Essex on Feb 26th, an agreement was struck for 571 to start holding a second monthly meeting starting in April (day and time TBD) at W48, in addition to our existing club meetings at W29 on the third Thursdays. The meetings will continue for a year, and we fully expect will culminate in the formation of a separate new EAA chapter based at W48.
I encourage our members to please try to get the word out to fellow flyers and EAAers who might be interested in being part of a chapter based at this energetic location, and show their support by attending the meetings.

02/27/2022

Hi folks,
In spite of losing our Lee Airport meeting site, we have emerged from our Covid shelters and resumed meetings in the real world. The current meeting location is a little further east on Rt50, at Bay Bridge Airport. We are using the pilot lounge at W29, which is a much nicer venue than the sad old CAP hut that served us well for 45+ years, and it was the closest airport-based meeting space that could accommodate us. Meetings are still held on the third Thursdays of the month, with the start times currently delayed to 7:30pm for folks that are unfamiliar with the getting to the new location.

02/19/2021

Thanks so much to Kelly Mahon for sharing a terrific up-close view and story about their beautiful 1933 Lockheed Vega! Mount Pleasant, TX is now on my must-visit list of places to go. Thanks so much for what you and the museum are doing to preserve these special planes, and give the public an opportunity to ride in them (for free!)

We had 17 people join the Zoom - glad to see members old and new, even when we can't meet in person at Lee Airport.

09/18/2020

EAA Chapter 571 had the privilige to host Lisa Turner as our speaker last night! It was a great presentation and discussion. Lisa talked about EAA builder resources including Techical Councelors, her own story and a bit about the 3 books she has written.

Lisa is an aerospace manufacturing engineer, has been member of the EAA for 25 years and serves as a Technical Counselor, Flight Advisor, A&P, and DAR. Lisa writes the Airworthy column for Sport Aviation Magazine and writes freelance for Kitplanes magazine. She has published mulitple books, including Dream Take Flight, about a young girl overcoming shyness as she pushes back on the conventional roles for females in the 1960s. An admitted tomboy, she didn’t understand why she couldn’t take shop class or be a mechanic.

“At the time, I didn’t realize I was off the beaten path for girls. That’s probably what gave me the courage to persevere,” says Lisa.

Lisa ended up building an airplane in her garage at the age of 45. Her family thought she was crazy, and said so. In the years that followed, the airplane brought Lisa the confidence she was searching for. Both a physical and spiritual journey, a 4,000 mile solo in the airplane brings adventure and triumph. Unconventional in her choice of careers, Lisa has worked as a finish carpenter on high rise construction, run her own bicycle shop, started and ran a business consultancy, was the Chief Training Officer for Tyco Fire and Security Services, and is FAA licensed as an Airframe and Powerplant Mechanic. Lisa and her husband, Jerry Stadtmiller, run an antique airplane restoration facility in Andrews, North Carolina, called BIPE, which stands for "biplane."

Thanks, Lisa for joining us!