The Arizona Soaring Association is a group of about 50 pilots who fly sailplanes at all levels of the sport; some pilots are
new to soaring and just learning to fly, while others compete in national and regional competitions, in addition to the ASA's
own well-known contest series that runs from March to September each year.
We fly from several locations. These include commercial operations
Northwest Sky Sports (formerly Turf) and
Estrella Sailport,
private clubs Tucson Soaring Club and
Prescott Soaring,
as well as airports in Sedona and Sun Valley. During our active race schedule, we also fly
from Willcox and Sampley's in Aguila.
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ASA is Exposed at the Buckeye Air Fare 2013
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report by ASA Secretary Bob Thompson February 23, 2013
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Bob Thompson brought his Ventus "19" to the Buckeye Municipal Airport where an 2013 Air Fair was being held,
and had it on display. He was helped by Bob and Val Jean Kellner during the 6 hour event. Hundreds
of informational brochures dealing with soaring in general, ASA, SSA, and Turf Soaring were handed
out to many interested people who attended the event. Thousands of people were there. There were
numerous aerial acts that kept people's attention skyward, and the sport of soaring was very well
received. ASA was provided with a very good placing for the Ventus close to a Lear Jet, Carbon Cub,
the Radio Control folks, and backing up to a taxiway, which put us front and center for the airshow.
Helicopter rides, biplane rides, tandem sky diving, a jet RC model airplane, formation flying, about
60 fly-in planes of all sorts, and over 100 vendors provided quite a day for attendees.
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| 2012 Xmas Party - A time for celebration
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report by ASA Secretary Bob Thompson December 21, 2012
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The 2012 ASA Christmas Season Celebration / Annual Meeting / Awards Banquet took place on Saturday evening December 15.
It was a very enjoyable social affair, with pilots renewing old friendships, discussing the season’s flying,
spouses and friends enjoying an evening out, and allowing new members to meet and interact with the core membership of ASA.
Many thanks go to hosts Pam and Ted Wagner, for providing not only their gorgeous home to host the party in,
but for also providing all the scrumptious food for the evening. Pam and Ted provided quite a feast of very tasty items, much of it from scratch,
which required much time and effort to gather and prepare. Certainly, no one went home hungry. And, socializing continued
well after the official aspects of the event were over. Thanks Pam and Ted!
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| Annual Cliff Hilty Shrimp Boil 2012 |
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by Bob Thompson November 5, 2012 |
Saturday November 3rd brought us the annual "shrimp boil" party hosted by
Cliff Hilty at his hanger at the Aguila Samply Airport. It was a great social
gathering of a tad over 100 people, representing ASA, the Prescott gliding group,
Tucson gliding folks, past ASA members now flying power planes, EAA folks, and
assorted flying folks from around the country, as far away as Maine. This annual
event helps us bring together fall flying and lots of ...
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