Welcome and JOIN the Golden Gate Wing!
You've just landed at the Base of the Golden Gate Wing! Here you can find the latest news and what's going on!
If you are not a member, check us out! We are a very active group of the CAF, with Fly Days, Dinner meetings with guest speaker, we participate in airshows, organize trips and tours, and we maintain 2 aircraft: an SNJ-5 and a T-33! You can see these historic aircraft up close, participate in operations, and best of all, get a hand in keeping 'em flying!
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Dinner Meeting Location:
We are holding our monthly dinner meetings at the former Naval Air Station
(NAS) Alameda "Terminal Building".
Click here for
directions
View the latest Proptalk issue online!
(PDF format - 3.5 Megabytes)
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July 23, 2009 Guest Speaker:
LT COL Jim Reed USAF (Ret)
USAF Command Pilot, FAA Airline Transport Pilot Rating, Corporate Pilot, Coast Guard Master of Motor Vessels (500 Tons), Coast Guard Master of Sailing Vessels (50 Tons & Unlimited Radar)
* Joined USAF & earned his pilot wings November 1954 @ Jet Fighter School
* Assigned to France flying C-119s, then to Randolph AFB, TX as a KC-97 Air Refueling Instructor.
* After Randolph, assigned to classified duty for seven (7) years with world-wide travel
* In 1969 assigned to SCATBACK flying T-39 Saberliners for Combat Courier Missions, including US Ambassador to Vietnam, Ellsworth Bunker
* After Vietnam Tour, assigned to Air Defense Command Headquarters in Colorado Springs, as Operations Officer and Command Flight Examiner
* Next, Commander of Air Force Radar Squadron @ Boca Chica Naval Air Station, Key West, FL
* After 20+ years in the USAF, joined a start-up airline called Air Sunshine based in Key West flying DC-3s; achieved Captain, Chief Pilot, then Director and VP-Operations
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MARINE & NAVY ACES Symposium - July 19th, 2009
Presented by the Northern California Friends of the American Fighter Aces Association at the Hiller Aviation Museum.
Meet and hear these Wildcat, Hellcat and Corsair Pilots who accounted for nearly 30 destroyed enemy aircraft while flying during WWII.
ACES EXPECTED ON THE PANEL
* COL Dean Caswell – 7 victory Ace with VMF-221
* CAPT Bob Coats – 9 victory Ace with VF-18, VF-17
* CAPT Sheldon Hall – 6 victory Ace with VMF-213
* Lt CDR Jim Duffy – 5 victory Ace with VF-15
* ENS Don McPherson - 5 victory Ace with VF-83
Click here for more information!
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Would you like to join the GGW?
Are you interested in becoming part
of this excellent organization? We are a local chapter of the Commemorative Air
Force located in the San Francisco Bay Area. Click here for information on
how to join!
WING BBQ PHOTOS October 18, 2008 (click image to view)
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