Return the registration form to the Airshow office with your payment details before 6 August to reserve your ticket. Details are on the form.

BCAC members can enjoy a terrific air show and rub shoulders with other attendees in a premium networking opportunity for $125.00 per person per day.

The elegant ambience and hosting provide a friendly meeting ground for clients and friends. Outdoor seating includes patio tables with sun umbrellas and a show-centre view of the action in the sky! To get out of the heat, step inside the Clubhouse for a personalised refreshment.

• priority VIP access and Parking
• hosted tables and patio seating
• fully catered gourmet breakfast, lunch, snack
• full bar service (mixed drinks, beer, wine & cider)
• complimentary Airshow Souvenir Program
• recognition in the Airshow Souvenir Program
• an opportunity to meet visiting performers
• VIP Washroom facilities

Show gates open at 08:00, breakfast service starts at 08:30 , lunch service at 11:30 with flying events starting approximately 11:00 and running to 5:00. Don’t forget the static aircraft and vendor displays on the field as well which are open for viewing at 08:30.

Headlining the show this year are Canada’s own Snowbirds, the US Air Force Thunderbirds and the beautiful vintage Avro Lancaster. Check out the Abbotsford Airshow website for the full line-up.

BCAC Fall Conference

The BCAC will hold its annual Fall Conference and Silver Wings Banquet on November 3 and 4, 2010.

You can become a part of this event by marking your calendar today and keeping watch for registration details.

The Conference will be broadly themed as “Aviation BC - Gateway to Recovery” - view poster (PDF). We will feature distinguished speakers, aviation operators, political and thought leaders from BC, Canada and the USA. It is designed to appeal to all sectors of the aviation industry.

The two day event concludes with the Silver Wings Banquet – a time when we celebrate leaders and excellence in aviation and award scholarships and bursaries to help launch the next generation of aviation professionals.

The venue is the vibrant River Rock Casino Resort, located in Richmond, BC, on the Canada Line - 7 minutes from YVR and 19 minutes from downtown Vancouver. It features the casino, of course, and a show theatre presenting world-class entertainers, celebrity concerts and much more.

Join us in these premier events that will stimulate thinking in all of us about our industry and its future, while providing outstanding networking opportunities, and a chance to celebrate achievement.

Many thanks to the Sauder School of Business at the University of British Columbia for being the Event Sponsor.

2010 Award Nominations

Award Nomination Forms:

Aviation Entrepreneur of the Year Award

William Templeton Award

BCAC Environmental Award

Robert S. Day Trophy

Back and Bevington Air Safety Award

Lifetime Achievement Award

The Economist

The WTO made public its ruling on Boeing’s six-year-old complaint against Airbus. The thrust of the decision was already known and, as expected, the trade body found that Airbus, and particularly its A380 super-jumbo project, benefited from illegal European subsidies. Airbus maintained that 70% of Boeing’s claims had been rejected and that the WTO could not find that European launch aid resulted in a “material injury” to American interests, nor that the subsidies caused losses in jobs and profits in America’s aircraft industry. A preliminary ruling on a counter case brought by Europe against Boeing is expected this month.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Radio Show, Forum Complement WomenVenture Activities

 Adding to the activities scheduled for this year’s WomenVenture at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2010 are a daily radio program and an all-new forum.

 The forum, scheduled for Thursday, July 29 from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. is called, “Aviation Scholarships: Not Just for Kids.”  This forum is intended to brief the aviation community about scholarship opportunities for career enhancement or change and technical training, including flight training offered by the aviation industry.

 “Companies and organizations have made it a priority to help grow the number of pilots and technicians and have made scholarship money available for motivated applicants,” says WAI President Dr. Peggy Chabrian.  “We want to get the word out that WAI’s scholarships are not just for college students.”

 A daily radio show hosted by Dr. Chabrian, “WomenVenture Voices” will air each morning from 10 a.m. to 10:15 a.m. and feature interviews with women having a variety of backgrounds and accomplishments.  EAA Radio can be heard at 1210 AM and also streams live at www.eaa.org during AirVenture.  At this time the interview schedule includes Anna Mracek Dietrich, COO Terrafugia; Ann Cooper, well known aviation writer; Patty Wagstaff, National Aerobatic Champion and air show performer; and Connie Bowlin, Warbird pilot and owner and retired Delta Air Lines pilot; Denise Waters, homebuilder, air racing pilot and A & P mechanic; Dorothy Cochrane, Curator, National Air and Space Museum.  Additional invited guests are Bonnie Dunbar, astronaut and Jessica Cox, the first pilot licensed to fly using only her feet.

“EAA Radio gives people worldwide an opportunity to share the excitement of WomenVenture if they are unable to come to Oshkosh,” says Dr. Chabrian.  “We will have a line up of fascinating women to share their personal histories with us.”

WomenVenture will expand to two days for 2010, and kicks off with an evening at Theater in the Woods on Thursday, July 29 at 7:00 pm. Dr. Chabrian will host a panel of inspiring women including NASA Astronaut Bonnie Dunbar and Space Station Commander Peggy Whitson.

The activities continue on Friday morning at 8 a.m. with the WAI Celebrity breakfast for all WomenVenture participants in the EAA Nature Center.  Tickets for this breakfast are available by calling WAI at (937) 839-4647 or at the Women in Aviation, International booth #2041 in Hangar B at EAA AirVenture.

Please visit www.airventure.org/womenventure for more information on WomenVenture or to download last year’s group photo.

Women in Aviation, International is a nonprofit 501(C)(3) organization dedicated to providing networking, mentoring and scholarship opportunities for women and men who are striving for challenging and fulfilling careers in the aviation and aerospace industries.  For more information, contact WAI at 3647 State Route 503 South, West Alexandria, OH 45381, Phone (937) 839-4647; Fax (937) 839-4645 or through www.wai.org.

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Contact:
Connie Lawrence                                    937-839-4647 Phone
Women in Aviation International   937-839-4645 Fax

Invitation for Media Only: Please join EAA and Women in Aviation, International on Thursday, July 29 for a Media Breakfast at 7:30 a.m. and WomenVenture briefing at 8:00 a.m.  Meet some of the WomenVenture featured celebrities up close and personal.  The Media Breakfast is held at the EAA Media Headquarters.  No RSVP required.