Chapter History

Posted by akarmy on Dec 4, 2013 in

EAA Chapter 326 was founded on October 21, 1969. Based at Thun Field in Puyallup WA there is a long history of Sport Aviation here in the Northwest. This group has been involved in community outreach and education about aviation since the beginnings and is a tradition that continues today with our Young Eagles program and TeenFlight programs.

The founding members included:

• Denell Zander of Enumclaw
• Dean Chapman of Spanaway
• Charles Crawford of Tacoma
• Merritt Koon of Tacoma
• Fred Ludtke of Puyallup
• Lawrence Young of Tacoma

“Membership is open to any person of good moral character… (subject to approval)” – those were the rules, laid down in 1969 by our founders.

 

To give you a flavor of the planes of 1969, here are a few that showed up at Rockford 1969 (the pre-cursor to Oshkosh)