Past FAHA Board Members

Took Anum's place about 2023.

Leone and I moved to Crest Airpark in 1985 after building our house on 297th Pl. We are on taxiway Hotel, the green one! We bought our lot from Virginia Neslund after looking at numerous houses for sale and not finding something we liked. We thought we were simply moving closer to the airport to make it easier and more convenient to fly, but soon learned we were also buying into a wonderful community where we made lifelong friends. Our children were born and raised here and grew up in a great place to live. Neither of us can imagine living somewhere else. I hope that the work we do on the board in coming years will keep the airport open well past 2025 and the community viable and active. I retired from the City of Seattle as an Information Technology Manager in 2012. Leone drove school bus for the Auburn School District and retired in 2011. Our focus now is on our grandkids and our community. In addition to being on the current FAHA board, I am the secretary and past president of the Puget Sound Antique Airplane Club. I was also a board member in the early 2000's when we exercised the right to extend the easement to 2025. Leone was on the original committees starting in 1992 that attempted to negotiate a permanent easement with Crest Airpark and Norm Grier.We own a 1954 Cessna 180, N3698C, and Aeronca Champ 7AC. We enjoy flying in the 180 to breakfast and lunch destinations and occasionally to golf courses.

Hi Everyone, I’m a relatively new member of your community. My wife Debbie and I arrived at Crest last summer when we bought the Crane’s house. Located at the end of Taxiway C and 292nd. I could not be more thrilled to live here at Crest and be part of the community. I learned to fly in High School at age 17 and have been flying in the Northwest for fun ever since. I have a Cessna 172 that I adopted from my Dad and a RV-8 that I built (my 4th homebuilt to date). I look forward to serving the community and helping out where I can.

I moved to Crest in May of 2012 (Taxiway B), bringing with me a half completed GLASAIR 2 project. I had always wanted to fly and the opportunity to live on the airport was a real treat. I began flight lessons in 2017 and earned a private pilot certificate in 2019 and completed the GLASAIR project 1 month after getting my license. We continue to work on improving our property on crest and hope to enjoy it for many years. I retired from Sea Mar Community Health in March of 2020 and currently serve as Vice President of EAA chapter 441 which meets the 4th Thursday of each month at the Nason hangar on taxiway F at 7pm.

I hold a Private Pilot certificate with an Instrument rating and have flown our Cessna P210 to many airports in the Western United States. My wife Jane and I have been flying into Crest Airpark for the past 9 years which includes 6 years as a renter and 3 years as a homeowner on Taxiway Charlie.I am retired now, but I have held a variety of corporate board positions plus two aviation related boards over the years that dealt with a variety of topics similar to what Crest will deal with in the coming years. As a result of these experiences, I know that Crest Airpark is a very rare place which has enormous potential. I am very interested in helping Crest Airpark improve so we can all be most proud of the airpark we now own.

Although new to this area and the world of flying, I could not be happier living in this community with such wonderful neighbors. I grew up in Washington, obtaining my JD and MBA from Seattle University. Although the world of commercial contracts in the biotech space is vastly different than real estate, I look forward to contributing my expertise to the board. My husband Shahzad is currently working towards his pilot’s license and even though I had said I could never do it; I find myself inching closer to getting in the left seat of the Yellow Luscombe. As we settle our roots in this community, I look forward to being more involved, especially with the upcoming purchase of the airport.There has been a lot of information to digest in this series of emails. Further details will be available tomorrow at the Annual Meeting. As always and as a reminder, all members are welcome to join us in any of our Board meetings. Just let me know.

My family and I moved to Crest in 2019, though we’ve been fans and familiars of the runway for many years. Some of you may remember my Husband, Anders, as a very young man mowing the grass, patching the road, and waxing airplanes in his late teens while earning his pilots license. I started flying in 2010 with the US Air Force as a Navigator and earned my private pilots license in 2017 followed by an instrument rating in 2018. Currently, I work in cloud security as a Technical Program Manager to support our family flying habit. We own the red Mooney, occasionally observed getting a Chinese fire drill at the end of the runway, as Anders and I negotiate for left seat. Though, if you ask our oldest (Jax), it’s his airplane. It is a dream come true living on S36. We especially appreciate the community that comes with all of the unique, interesting, and fun neighbors. Served through 2022

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