On Saturday, October 5th, SAB travelled to Willard Airport in Savoy to visit the Flightstar maintenance facility. We received an in-depth tour of different hangers used by Flightstar to manage their wide range of commercial and private costumers. Highlights included seeing Bombardier company aircraft ranging from the Learjet to the Dassault Falcon 20, the Institute…

To start off the 2024-25 school year, SAB held multiple sessions of classroom and build/construction training. New members got to learn the basics of aircraft construction in classroom, including parts of the Zenith CH750 and tools they would later use in the build training. There, they worked in groups to create a take home toolbox…

Chasing the last breeze of Autumn, several SAB members took a trip to Bloomington Central Illinois Regional Airport for a blast from the past, at Prairie Aviation Museum. Prairie Aviation Museum is an all volunteer organization that has provided displays, static aircraft, education programs, and other aviation events for over 35 years. SAB members are…

On Sunday September 24th, SAB members met up at Champaign Willard Airport for a hangar tour – not our own hangar, but a gigantic hangar complex across the parking lot, managed by the well-known Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul service provider and the Fixed Base Operator: Flightstar. Flightstar has been the Fixed Base Operator at Champaign…

Quad Day 2023 was a blast! We met a lot of friends, old and new. It is a pleasure meeting all of you and introducing the RSO to new friends. If you have not yet subscribed to our newsletter, feel free to do here, for the newsletters would be the primary method to inform members…

Behind the scenes, the exec team of SAB vigorously works on organizing the next fantastic events for the SPRING 23 semester that will surely be fun and productive. Contact Chloe Hettick (hettick2) or Margarita Kuzmanova (mk36) via email to join the Slack channel and stay updated on the upcoming events.