{"id":294,"date":"2026-07-17T12:53:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T12:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eaa1563.org\/?p=294"},"modified":"2026-07-17T13:07:49","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T13:07:49","slug":"eaa1563-eaa-chap-1563-mtg-sat-july-18th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaa1563.org\/index.php\/2026\/07\/17\/eaa1563-eaa-chap-1563-mtg-sat-july-18th\/","title":{"rendered":"[EAA1563]: EAA Chap 1563 Mtg, Sat, July 18th"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"postie-post\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12.8px\" dir=\"auto\">Fellow Chapter Members &amp; Guests &#8211; Summer has arrived!. I&#8217;ve recently expanded Light Sport 2.0 pilot certification training at KGVE &amp; KOMH and am continuing tail wheel basics and refresher\/ recurrency training.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12.8px\" dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12.8px\" dir=\"auto\">It is with a heavy heart that I notify you we lost EAA pilot Roland &#8216;Rolly&#8217; Babcock of EAA Chapter 1099, Fredericksburg, late the morning of Tuesday, July 14th; while he was on final approach to KEZF Runway 24. The FAA\/ NTSB and VSP are investigating the crash; a preliminary report is pending release in 2 to 3 weeks. I&#8217;ll provide separate information on his funeral service and interment at Quantico National Cemetery on July 30th.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12.8px\" dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Please join us this Saturday for our meeting starting at 11:00 AM; followed ny an ice cream social. Our presentation will be on new Light Sport 2.0 MOSAIC Compliant aircraft entering the marketplace starting&nbsp; this month.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Hope to see you there for our meeting and ice cream social.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Learn &#8211; Build &#8211; Fly!<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div data-smartmail=\"gmail_signature\">C.E. &#8216;Charlie&#8217; Snyder,&nbsp; President, EAA Chapter 1563, Gordonsville, VA 540-718-6971 cell<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fellow Chapter Members &amp; Guests &#8211; Summer has arrived!. I&#8217;ve recently expanded Light Sport 2.0 pilot certification training at KGVE &amp; KOMH and am continuing tail wheel basics and refresher\/ recurrency training. It is with a heavy heart that I notify you we lost EAA pilot Roland &#8216;Rolly&#8217; Babcock of EAA Chapter 1099, Fredericksburg, late [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announce"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaa1563.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaa1563.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaa1563.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaa1563.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaa1563.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaa1563.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaa1563.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaa1563.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaa1563.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}