Our MONTHLY MEETINGS
Will be on the second Tuesday of each month, excluding July & August.
7 to 9 PM at Chelo's Restaurant, Warwick, RI     SEE MORE

SEVEN RIPA Members honored as master pilots.
The FAA honored each of seven RIPA members for 50 years of safe flying with the Wright Brothers Master Pilot Award. SEE THE FULL STORY

Five more Aviators to be inducted into the RHode Island Hall of Fame
Their biographies are posted in the JANUARY 2009 PLANE PAPER.

Know any young people interested in a career in aviation?
Send them to an FAA ACE Camp for an awesome hands-on experience! SEE MORE ABOUT FAA ACE Camps

ATTEND
The next FAA Safety Seminar
To be announced . SEE MORE

CONNECT
With fellow pilots and RIPA members by joining the RIPA Yahoo Group! Stop by and sign up!

welcome
Whether you’re just starting out or you have thousands of hours, if you fly anywhere in and around the State of Rhode Island, you’ll want to join us! RIPA is an organization of social and activist pilots, acknowledged as “The voice of general aviation in Rhode Island.”

You are invited to learn more about us and — of course — to join us!

RIPA holds monthly dinner meetings (except for July and August) featuring guest speakers on a variety of aviation topics, including our members’ aviation adventures. In addition, we sponsor a wide variety of activities, events, and programs to interest you, including:

• FAA Pilot Safety Seminars
• Scholarships
• Fly-Ins
• The Windsock Program
• Legislative monitoring of aviation-related issues
• Social events such as our Annual St. Patrick’s Day Brunch on Block Island, Ice Cream Social, Valentine’s Day Dinner, our Annual Holiday Gala,
• And much more!

We invite you to “stay a while” and have a look around. See what RIPA has to offer. You might just decide you’d like to join the fun!

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