Breakfast served 8:30am – 9:30am (Pancakes, Sausage, and Coffee/Juice $7.00)
Meeting starts promptly at at 10:00am
Young Eagles Flights will start by Noon

Colleen Keller Sterling

Colleen is a pilot and aircraft owner who became involved in search and rescue for missing aircraft after working on the Steve Fossett search in 2007.  By day she is an Operations Research Analyst at Metron, Inc., a DoD consulting firm specializing in mathematical software applications to real-world problems.  She holds an advanced degree in Applied Physics.

Colleen is a founding member of the Missing Aircraft Search Team, a group of experts that takes on cold cases for missing aircraft. Since the group formed in 2008, it has undertaken several cases ranging from a missing P51 flown by WASP Gertrude Tompkins Silver (unsolved) to a successful find of a Cessna 182 missing for three years north of Sedona AZ.

As a commercial, instrument rated general aviation pilot, Colleen has logged over 4000 hours in the past 30 years and owns a 1971 Cessna C-177RG (retractable gear Cessna Cardinal) and a 1990 Experimental Steen Skybolt sport biplane.  She is an A&P/IA and she teaches at the local community college as an Adjunct Professor in the Aviation Maintenance Program.   Colleen also moonlights with SavvyAviation, running their Breakdown Assistance Program and collaborating with CEO Mike Busch and fellow A&P/IA Paul New on the monthly AOPA podcast “Ask the A&Ps”, a general aviation version of Car Talk.

Breakfast Volunteers – Please let Sue Cole know if you can help set up and serve starting at 7:30am.
Park at Plane View Park and walk up to the second hangar to the east.
Young Eagles – Click  for more info and how to get signed up.

If visiting from outside Pecan Plantation, please let the gate attendant know you are going to the regular EAA Chapter 983 monthly meeting. If possible, please call a Chapter Officer in advance, and they will be glad to help guide you in.

*** VISITORS ALWAYS WELCOME ***