AMT Day Events May 24, is a day to celebrate Charles E. Taylor's accomplishments, "The Father of Aircraft Maintenance", and the thousands of men and women who have followed in his footsteps.
General Dynamics - Las Vegas, NV
General Dynamics hosted a BBQ at their facility in Las Vegas, NV to celebrate AMT Day.
Modern Aero - Eden Prairie, MN
Approximately 30 people from Modern Aero, a full service general aviation FBO located at Flying Cloud Airport in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, celebrated AMT Day with burgers and brats for lunch.
Baker's School of Aeronautics - Nashville, TN
Baker's School of Aeronautics hosted their 6th Annual AMT Day Picnic on Friday, May 21st. All the TV stations were forecasting a 80% chance of rain and thunderstorms during the day, so tents were put into place. We did not see one drop during the entire picnic! Over 130 people attended this year. Aviation Mechanics from all around Nashville and surrounding counties attended. Many came from Steven's Aviation, Vanderbilt Life Flight, Flight Express, Embraer, Averitt Express, plus students from Tennessee Technology Center and several out of state students that were attending school at Baker's School of Aeronautics that week.
As mentioned, Craig Curtis from the Nashville FSDO, with my daughter, Cindy Collier conducted the National Kennedy Combination Tool Box drawing for AMT Society. Wally Bevan, Nashville FSDO Manager, and myself also posed for a drawing picture.
The Charles Taylor Award winner was Patrick Dellahoussaye that is in the pictures with Wally Bevan handing him his plaque, and in front of the AMT Picnic Banner with his wife, Roxane Dellahoussaye.
Our Bluegrass band was made up of Deanie Richardson on the fiddle, Casey Campbell on the mandolin and Luke Munday on the banjo/guitar. Deanie has played with Vince Gill and Patty Loveless in the past and all three were very talented. The "Master Grillers" were Eddie Baker (hubby) and Orville Hale, Advertising Consultant with Trade-A-Plane. They grilled hamburgers, hot dogs and Southern Grilled Bologna. The menu also included barbeque, potato salad, slaw, baked beans, chips and cookies.
Bob Minter, AOPA Southeast Regional Rep and the Chairman of the Tennessee Aviation Hall of Fame was also there with his wife, Karin. They donated two very nice canvas coolers for door prizes. The Tennessee Mid-South Aviation Maintenance Conference committee also donated $500.00 to help purchase additional door prizes. Mike Lotzer, the National Sales Mgr. for Rapco, was there and donated about 30 Rapco T-Shirts, mini-tool pens and "The Aviation Mechanics Creed" magnets. In all, over 75 door prizes were given out, including tools to boxes of Slim Jims!
Baker's School gave out canvas sun visors to everyone in attendance, which had "Celebrating AMT Day, May 24th" embroidered on them. We also had a corn hole competition this year, which all enjoyed. The winner received a nice table/cooler combination prize.
All had a great time.
Air Wisconsin - Philadelphia, PA
On May 24th (National AMT Day) Air Wisconsin had barbeques for all three shifts and displayed posters in the regional terminal departure gates so the travelling public could learn more about the aircraft maintenance professionals at Air Wisconsin.
