SSA Region IV Soaring

Region IV Director - Jim Kellett

The SSA Clubs are:

Atlantic Soaring, Blue Ridge Soaring Society, Cumberland Soaring Group, Merlin Soaring, Mid-Atlantic Soaring Association, Shenandoah Valley Soaring, Skyline Soaring, Springwood Soaring, and Tidewater Soaring.  (Brandywine Soaring, which has a mailing address in Delaware, flies out of an airport in Pennsylvania, which is in SSA's Region II.)

There are two other non-SSA Club soaring operations, the Flying Cow Farm in Lovettsville, VA (a private field) and at St. Mary's, MD.

There is a plan provided by the SSA's "Future Restructuring Task Force" to consolidate, by the end of 2010, Region IV and Region II into a single Region.  This move is one of several similar changes that reflect the consensus of the Board that a smaller number of Directors (there are presently 26) will be a more effective group, and works toward the goal of having each Regional Director represent approximately the same number of SSA members. 

The Current Regional Director is Jim Kellett, who lives in Harrisonburg, VA.  E-mail contact Jim@Kellett.com.

Each State also has a SSA State Governor who works to promote soaring within his/her State.  In Region IV, they are:

Virginia - Penn Smith

Maryland - Tim Collins

West Virginia - Fred Bane

Delaware - Oliver Suddard