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Congratulations to the contest organizers of the Estrella Classic Glider Aerobatic Championship and the Snowbird Classic - IAC Open Championship East for two successful contests completed on the last weekend of March. 

"It started off sour with IFR and low ceilings the week before the contest. Severe weather surrounded Florida with strong tornadic weather creating unparalleled damage and flooding in the southeast," Hector Ramirez Assistant Contest Director reported to IAC Chapter 89 members prior to their first pre-contest practice day. " To my surprise there…

The Illinois Aviation Hall of Fame's Mission Statement is to preserve the heritage of the founding of aviation and memorialize the efforts of the men and women that  gave their time, experience and expertise to shepherd Illinois aviation from its earliest beginnings to a level where recreational, corporate and airline service is at the pinnacle of air transportation in the world.  Since 1970 over one hundred Illinois men and women have been inducted into the Illinois Aviation Hall of…

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Oshkosh, Wisconsin – March 10, 2021:  The skill, beauty, and excitement of aerobatic flight will be celebrated on Saturday, June 26, during the inaugural National Aerobatics Day, as announced today by Jim Bourke, President of the International Aerobatics Club (IAC).

“National Aerobatics Day is the perfect day to host an aerobatic camp, a BBQ, a practice session, or to share videos of aerobatic activity online,” Bourke said. “With over 40 chapters nationwide and two international chapters, IAC members will be organizing these types of activities…

IAC members interested in becoming an aerobatic Judge usually have the opportunity to attend classes hosted by an IAC Chapter. In light of the pandemic and with COVID-19 guidelines in most states restricting large indoor gatherings, IAC is offering an online school for both aspiring and returning judges.

EAA ‘s webinar technology (GoToMeeting) is hosting this online school.…

by Dave Watson and Britt Lincoln, Achievment Award Program co-chairs

We are very excited to announce a few changes to the Achievement Awards Program, which on the surface may seem minor, but we are hoping this will enable more of you to earn these prestigious awards and add them to your “walls of glory”. We submitted a proposal to the IAC Board at the Fall meeting to streamline the qualification process for Smooth Achievement Awards and our proposal was approved! We hope you are as excited about this as we are and we look forward to seeing many of your Award Applications in our…

The development of an arcive for old rule books is underway. You can access them here: https://www.iac.org/old-rule-books

If you have old rule books and/or sequences from the 1970s through the end of the 1990s and would like to contribute, please send scanned/digital copies to execdir[at]iac.org

A bank of IAC sequences from 1995 through 2021 is kept on the website here: https://www.iac.org/sequences (IAC member login required to access).

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The 2021 edition of the Offical IAC Rule Book is now available to members at https://www.iac.org/download-contest-rules. (IAC member login is required.)

Most of the changes are a direct result of IAC member input. Twenty-five proposals were submitted. After these were published last fall, other IAC members provided comments. The Rule Committee discussed each proposal and associated comments in depth, then provided recommendations to the IAC Board. After further consideration regarding all related implications, the Board…

EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2021 will include a full roster of forums in the IAC’s Vicki Cruse Educational Pavilion at the IAC Aerobatic Center. The forums are scheduled daily from Tuesday, July 27, through Friday, July 30, 2021, and run for approximately one hour and 15 minutes each.

A fantastic lineup of aerobatic and unusual attitude forums throughout the week are being planned. The speakers below are scheduled and more information on their topics will be added - check back!

Walter Extra is proud to inform the aerobatic world that the new Extra NG has just received FAA Certification. The NG (new generation) aircraft is the first totally composite/carbon fiber aerobatic aircraft from Extra. They currently have built 20 aircraft to date with orders fast accumulating. Extra Aircraft is also proud to inform that Southeast Aero Sales Inc is the North American Distributor for Extra. Southeast Aero Sales has increased their area by now servicing both the East (in Florida) and the West Coast (in Denver) as Kramer Upchurch, Doug Vayda and Chad Graves have teamed up for…