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PRA Chapter 2 - Serving Utah and the Intermountain West

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Upcoming Rotorcraft Meetings

The following rotorcraft organizations are known to be active in our region and holding regular meetings.

Utah Rotorcraft Association (PRA 2, Spanish Fork, UT)

Regular meetings are held the Second Saturday each month at Airgyro Aviation in Spanish Fork, UT, or in other locations as announced. Check our home page for details on the next meeting.

Ken Brock Rotorcraft Association (PRA 1, El Mirage, CA)

Regular meetings are held the second Saturday each month at 11am at Teddy Udala's ranch in El Mirage.
(Updates, directions here.)

Great Northwest Sport Rotorcraft Association (PRA 73, Scappoose, OR)

Regular meetings are held the second Saturday each month except December at Sport Copter at the Scappoose Industrial Airport in Oregon. See www.pra73.net for current details.

Arizona Rotorcraft Club (PRA 15, San Manuel, AZ)

Third Saturday of each month September – May, (no summer meetings due to heat,) locations vary. No website. E-mail ARC President Brita Penca to receive notices.

Upcoming Rotorcraft Events

Aug 3 – 7, 2010 – PRA Convention
PRA Mentone Airport, Indiana

The Popular Rotorcraft Association now owns its own airport, which is taken over by this event each summer during the week after EAA AirVenture. Menton is about 300 miles by road from Oshkosh, or about 200 nm by air. PRA grew out of the Bensen Gyrocopter owners group back in the 1960s, and gyroplanes of all sorts are featured. There is a renewed effort to attract more helicopters to this event, and two Helicycles made it in 2009.

Sep 24 – 26, 2010 - Ken Brock Freedom Fly-In
El Mirage Dry Lake OHV Recreation Area, California

This event is hosted by the Ken Brock Rotorcraft Association / PRA Chapter 1 in honor of the late Ken Brock, an early Bensen dealer, developer of the KB series gyroplanes, and founder of this, the first of PRA's local chapters. Enthusiasts gather each fall on the El Mirage Dry Lake, near Edwards AFB in the Mohave Desert. This large, roughly 6-x-2-mile oval of flat, level, hard-packed clay and silt sits at 2,840 feet MSL, and is “resurfaced” by natural runoff each year, creating a unique environment for experimental aircraft. Expect to see everything from ultralight trikes to Chinooks in the air, and a wide assortment of experimental helicopters and gyroplanes.

Self-contained camping is allowed on the lakebed, and porta-potties are provided starting Thursday. Official days are Thu/Fri/Sat, but early birds usually start arriving by Tuesday each year, and the flying lasts into Sunday. Traditionally, attendees are invited to a Saturday night BBQ at the Brock Ranch adjacent to the lakebed, and Chapter 1 may offer a Friday meal at the campsite on the lake.