Upper Valley Flying Club

Upper Valley Flying Club is a 50+/- member Federally-recognized 501(c)7 non-profit flying club that operates year-round at the Lebanon, New Hampshire Municipal Airport (KLEB), a Class D towered airport with two 5000+ foot runways.

On a club fly-out, members visit the Blue Angels at Brunswick Executive Airport. Our Chief CFI, Dave Kent (fifth from right), is a Blue Angel Alum.

AIRCRAFT

The club’s trusty Cessna 172R on approach.

The club maintains three aircraft, a 2000 Cessna 172R Skyhawk, a 2002 Cessna 172S Skyhawk and a 1978 Cessna 182RG Skylane (high performance, retractable gear). The 172s are our “local” planes, great for VFR and IFR training and can be taken for short cross country flights. They stay close to home. The 182 is robust IFR travel plane capable of carrying four adults with luggage at 150 knots and is allowed on multi-day trips. It has an Aspen glass primary flight display with AOA and synthetic vision, ADSB in and out with Bluetooth, a new touch-screen GTN 650 WAAS navigator, and basic autopilot. All members share the same benefits and voting rights. However, access to the aircraft depends on flying experience.

gallery_Lebanon_20Landing — Home to the flying club—Lebanon Municipal Airport (KLEB)

MEMBERSHIP

Membership is granted based on aircraft and instructor availability. We have a limited number of memberships available for licensed pilots with more than 150 hours total flight time. Membership is currently closed for students but we are accepting wait list applications. To join the wait list please apply by filling out our application form with a one-time application fee of $100. Social memberships are available.

Monthly dues are $110 and cover member insurance—no additional insurance is required. Each aircraft flown requires an initiation contribution to the club, which can be made in installments. Those interested only in the 172 contribute $900. Pilots with high performance and retractible endorsements, which can be earned in the club with an instructor, may take an advanced check ride and fly the 182 after making an additional $950 contribution. Questions: Send an inquiry through our contact form.

Sam Lutz has received his private, instrument and commercial rating at the club, by age 18! — Sam Lutz has received his private, instrument and commercial ratings at the club, by age 18! You can watch his videos on YouTube.

EVENTS

Club events happen year round. We have a regular meeting the 3rd Thursday of each month, 6pm, at our hangars with a cookout in summer months and at local restaurants during winter months. We also have occasional safety and informational seminars. Events are usually open to non-members as well as members.

MORE INFO

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Flight Training Resumes

February 11th, 2021

The Club Board of Directors has lifted restrictions on flight training. This does not mean all club instructors will be teaching or that an instructor who is teaching will resume a full schedule. It only means that instructors are free to decide for themselves, along with their students, when flying together makes sense. The Club COVID protocols are still in place and members are expected to comply. [...]

Flight Training Suspended...Again

December 11th, 2020

Unfortunately, the climbing rates of COVID-19 infection locally have forced the club to suspend in-person instruction until conditions improve. Club aircraft remain available to licensed members. As soon as conditions improve, instruction will resume. [...]

N5175Y Online

October 28th, 2020

Our third aircraft is online after a rigorous check out and annual. This is a beautiful very low time aircraft. In November, it will go to Green Mountain Avionics in Middlebury, Vermont, for avionics upgrades (additional G5 HSI, Garmin 650 navigator, new audio panel and transponder) that will make it almost operationally identical to 685DW. [...]