Marin County 99s

Last Fall, 2020, Marielle was asked by Paul Marshall, President of CalDART, to create an independent DART operation at Angwin. She took on the task of starting one, and since then has been working hard to meet the challenge. Today, they are 14 pilots and 17 aircrafts strong, along with 6 ground volunteers, each specialized in a valuable field (logistics, ham radio communications, finance management, and data processing). Today, they are recognized by CalDART as being a certified DART Operator. Marielle is currently the director of operations for Angwin DART and will serve as its Incident Commander if a disaster were to hit tomorrow.

Photo below: this flight to San Martin served as their official “annual exercise”, as required by CalDART to be considered operational. They picked up 500 face shields and 500 face masks for the essential workers of Napa County, which were delivered to the Napa COAD for distribution.

Photo below: Marielle flew right seat with Bob Edwards in his newly purchased Cirrus out of Angwin under the TFR that reserved the airspace for the Lightning Complex firefighters. They received special permission to fly out and back into Angwin.

Maddie here. Sorry I haven’t reached out in a bit, I wanted to wait until I
had some exciting news! I passed my Checkride the other day! Been a lot of
hard work but I couldn’t have picked a better program. I’ll keep you updated with my milestones! Thank you so much for helping me get started, that truly made an impact and has inspired me to do the same. I’ve attached a photo that was taken right after my practical test. Btw- I get to fly the coolest planes! Cirrus SR-20 pictured below. 

Gretchen outdid herself again as the best cook/hostess in San Francisco!! We all had a blast telling flying stories, eating the scrumptious paella and other dishes brought by our aviatrixes. Of course, we washed it all down with some mighty fine wines.    

Marin 99s take another seaplane flight in the Beaver thanks to Alyssa Abbey.
After the flight, we all enjoyed a fun-filled dinner and evening at Sue’s
house.  Super fun time!!

July 22-28 –         EAA AirVenture in Oshkosh

July 27 –              Meeting cancelled

August 3 –           Orbis International Flying Eye Hospital – Tour at Oakland Airport

August 4 –           Novato Space Station Festival in Novato.  

Contact Angie Hutchins at angie@thespacestationca.org if you want to volunteer.

August 17 –         Introductory DART training Session.  

For more info  on DART contact Marielle Coeytaux at coeytauxmarielle@gmail.com

August 24 –         Next Marin 99s meeting

10 a.m. until 12 noon, Sue’s hangar/B101 – Gnoss Field

Sept. 21 –            EAA / Young Eagles day.  If you can volunteer as a pilot or just help out with event contact Ken Mercer at mercer.k@comcast.net

October 3-6 –     Register for SWS Conference in San Luis Obispo.  For more info go to www.sws99s.clubexpress.com

October 19 –      Marin 99s meeting

October 26 –      Bay Area DART exercise

Dec. 7 –               GFCA / Marin 99s / EAA Holiday Party