EAA Troubles

If you fly an ultralight, light sport, light aircraft or other aircraft you are likely to be an EAA member. Usually everything seems quite well run at the organization. But trouble have set it. And their reputation may have been tarnished a bit.

The EAA board decided to search for a new director to be the successor to Tom Poberezny, the current president. The plan was to have an announcement at the 2009 Air Venture fly-in in Osh Kosh this past summer. That never happened.

Political infighting over the picks for the new man have been ongoing and have resulted in a resignation with the possibility of more to come.

Vern Raburn the high profile aviation entrepreneur resigned a few weeks ago over the problems and the current board member who looks to be contemplating this also is David Pasahow,  a board member who is an executive search expert. Pasahow has been instrumental in finding Poberezny’s successor, only to be thwarted after the man found and allegedly approved is dismissed.

What has been transpiring is that after a person is found for the position and allegedly approved by the board, political infighting erupts. The latest was the pick of GAMA’s Pete Bunce. It is thought that he was voted on and approved but then dissent set in. This is not the first time.

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