Board of Directors

Operation of the Aero Association of the California Institute of Technology is managed by its Board of Directors. The Board of Directors consists of the officers elected by the general membership each spring during the Spring General Membership meeting, and the owners of any aircraft being leased to AACIT. Each AACIT officer serves for one year. The following persons were elected to office at the 2009 Spring General Membership Meeting:

President: Joe Areeda - joe[at]areeda.com
Vice President: David Werntz - dgwerntz[at]yahoo.com
Secretary: Kim Sellick - mktg[at]oscarhomecare.com
Flight Director: Kevin Baines - kbaines[at]aloha.jpl.nasa.gov
Treasurer: Channing Lushbough - ctl222[at]yahoo.com
Assistant Treasurer: Bob Clark - robertrclark[at]earthlink.net
Maintenance Supervisor: Barney Lum - barney[at]usc.edu
CIT Director at Large: Oren Hazi - ohazi[at]caltech.edu
CIT Director at Large: Leslie Lamberson - les[at]caltech.edu

Maintenance Directors

C172 N19760: Rob Abelson - robert.d.abelson[at]jpl.nasa.gov
C152 N89084: Bernhard Schulz - bschulz[at]ipac.caltech.edu

The owners (Maintenance Directors) of the other aircraft are:

C82R N2333C: Steve Floyd - americanaccounting[at]hotmail.com
PA28RT N2824Y: Ben Stauffer - bs[at]bscomputers.com
PA28 N5997V: Ben Stauffer
C172 N54678: Bob Clark
C172 N98326: Steve Floyd - stephenfloyd[at]compuserve.com
C172 N734FH: Carlos Villalpando - carlos[at]jpl.nasa.gov - Carlos is actually the owner's proxy

Flight Standards Committee (FSC)

The flight Standards Commmittee is composed of the Flight Director and two other active members of the club who are not on the Board of Directors. The duties of the FSC are to review the proficiency of members and flight instructors of AACIT, and to decide the responsibility and liability for any incident or accident involving AACIT aircraft. The FSC may also recommend to the BoD operational procedures designed to ensure safe operation and airworthiness of AACIT aircraft. The members of the FSC are recommended by the Flight Director, and then elected by the BoD within two weeks of the Spring General Membership Meeting. The members of Flight Standards Committee for this year are:

    • Kevin Baines - kbaines[at]aloha.jpl.nasa.gov
    • Bob Clark - robertrclark[at]earthlink.net
    • Aron Wolf - aron.a.wolf[at]jpl.nasa.gov

For comments or further information, please contact the Board of Directors:

AACIT
PO Box 61022
Pasadena, CA 91116

You can email the board at aacit-board[at]caltech.edu