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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…

IAC Winter Auction

Starting January 28 and continuing through February 4, the International Aerobatic Club will be conducting an auction on eBay to help raise funds to alleviate its current budget shortfall. You can help by bidding on a number of aviation related items, services and activities—

• Lifetime IAC Membership (which includes a Lifetime EAA Membership) - $2,290.00 Value!
• Garmin VIRB® Ultra 30 Aviation In-cockpit Bundle- $549.99 Value! (…

The IAC recently had a change in their Judge and Rules programs.  Doug Sowder has stepped down from the Rules program to take on other things.  Doug is an IAC President Emeritus, and a fantastic volunteer who will continue to serve the IAC in other areas.  We are sad to see him leave this position but very happy to announce that Barrett Hines has been appointed to take on the Rules program on an interim basis.  Barrett is frequently called on to be a juror in contests in the Southwest region because of his calm demeanor, intellect, and his prodigious understanding of the subject matter. …

The 2020 season will be long remembered for the Coronavirus shutdown which took most of our competition season away.  While it was not possible for everyone to compete, some of our most die-hard enthusiasts worked very hard to make the competition season as full as possible.  This year, the IAC recognizes those who put in extra effort with a special IAC Presidential Recognition certificate.

IAC president Jim Bourke is honored this year to award an IAC President’s Award to John Housley for his work in creating a new award program specifically for biplane enthusiasts.

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