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The Club was founded in 1956 as the Slatington Flying Club with twenty-three social and twenty-three active members. As more members from around the Lehigh Valley joined, the Club grew and moved to the Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton (ABE) Airport in 1975. In 1981 we changed our name to the Lehigh Valley Flying Club. Our club now has about eighty active and thirty social members. Many of our members are builders and ultralight fliers. We joined the Experimental Aircraft Association's EAA Chapter #70 to further our passion for recreational flying.
We are very proud of the way our Club has grown and prospered. The Lehigh Valley Flying Club is for certified pilots, but students are also welcome.
Join the camaraderie of fellow members who share your interests. Enjoy our activities and friendly hangar flying while learning more about aviation and sharing the costs. You can fly off on your own for that dream vacation or a long weekend, without the hassle normally involved with trying to rent a plane from an FBO. The Club is not an FBO and does not rent aircraft! Every member is an equal owner of all the airplanes and shares in the costs associated with operating those aircraft .
We currently have four aircraft: three (3) Piper Archers and a Cessna 172. Visit the Aircraft page to see our fleet.
Latest News:
We are very proud of the way our Club has grown and prospered. The Lehigh Valley Flying Club is for certified pilots, but students are also welcome.
Join the camaraderie of fellow members who share your interests. Enjoy our activities and friendly hangar flying while learning more about aviation and sharing the costs. You can fly off on your own for that dream vacation or a long weekend, without the hassle normally involved with trying to rent a plane from an FBO. The Club is not an FBO and does not rent aircraft! Every member is an equal owner of all the airplanes and shares in the costs associated with operating those aircraft .
We currently have four aircraft: three (3) Piper Archers and a Cessna 172. Visit the Aircraft page to see our fleet.
Latest News:
- Saturday, July 19, 2008 Time TBA: Beach Flyout to Ocean City New Jersey (26N) Last two years this got rained out by T-Storms. Well three is a charm. (Need to get more details from the Pres.)
- Saturday, June 7, 2008: AOPA Fly-In and Open House, Frederick, MD. So grab a club plane and fly in. Advise from fellow members of the club who went to this airport in the past say. Do not go on IFR because you get vectored all over the place due to volumn of traffic. Just go VFR and go very early an you should have a pleasant flight. ... More
- June 6 - 8, 2008: Mid Atlantic Air Museum WWII Weekend: Visit MAAM to purchase tickets.
- Saturday, May 31, 2008 Time TBA: Dinner Flyout to Lumberton (Need to get more details from the Pres.)
- Saturday, May 17, 2008 9am to 2pm: The eighth Annual Hangar Cleaning and Aircraft Wash will take place at the Club hangar on from 0900 hrs. to 1400 hrs. OR UNTIL ALL AIRCRAFT HAVE BEEN WASHED (inside and out)[all aircraft will be grounded for this date]. Come out on a spring morning and join your fellow Club members in an annual effort to sweep out the cob webs, spruce-up the hangar and restore the luster to our aircraft. Please bring sponges, push brooms, leaf blowers, pressure washers, buckets, etc. to assist in the task of the day - CLEANING. Food and hot coffee will be awaiting your attendance at this hallowed event.
- Attention Members: Please go to our aircraft reservation system to view our temporary aircraft utilization procedures while we get the Hangar doors repaired.
- You can now hear a live feed from KABE (tower and approach/departure)! Alan K. reports that the website LiveATC www.liveatc.net added a live feed from KABE (tower and approach/departure). This means you can listen to Allentown radio traffic anywhere you have an internet connection. I've been using it to get better acquainted with class C radio lingo. You can also listen to your fellow club members: this past weekend I overheard Steve M. in the busy pattern and Sean G. making a nighttime approach (well done by the way). Check it out.
- New Photo slide show page has been added to our website. Do you have photos of a trip you took recently? Do you want to share them with the club? Just attach your photos to an email and send to photos @ lvfc.org wait a few minutes, and you will be able to view them on our website on our Photos page! You can use the subject line to give your photo a title and the body to add a description. You can also use a special code to add tags before you send your email. Any questions just send a note to information @ lvfc.org or call Sean Gornell or Greg Lamoree. Do not worry if you did not like what you uploaded and want to change what you have done. Just send a note to us and we can change it for you.
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