Builders’ Club
Building & Restoring
Chapter 393 has always been a builders’ club at heart — members working on everything from sheet-metal RVs to fabric-covered classics, sharing tools, techniques, and a healthy amount of hangar-floor advice.
Chapter Support
You don’t build alone
Membership gives you access to a local community of builders, a shared builders’ tool crib, and technical and peer counselors who’ve been through the process — riveting, welding, wiring, and everything in between.
- Access to a builders’ tool crib
- Technical and peer counselors for project guidance
- A local community of builders and restorers
- Project talk at every monthly dinner meeting
Resources
Builder resources we point people to
Whether you’re scratch-building, working from a kit, or restoring a classic, these are well-trodden starting points our members turn to:
- EAA SportAir Workshops— hands-on weekend classes in sheet metal, welding, fabric covering, and more.
- Van’s Aircraft — builder resources and manuals for the RV series, common among our members.
- Kitplanes Magazine — technical articles and project write-ups across kit and scratch-built aircraft.
- Our own technical counselors — ask at a dinner meeting, or reach out any time.
From the hangar
Member projects, past and present
Builder Stories
Project updates, in members’ own words
Our newsletter has long been where members write up project milestones, first-flight reports, and lessons learned on the bench. It’s the closest thing we have to a chapter build log.
Browse the newsletter archive →Working on something in your garage or hangar?
Come to a dinner meeting, meet a technical counselor, and get access to the tool crib. Members building and restoring aircraft are the heart of this chapter.