CSPA Board Members —  click on names to contact by email.

President:  Aron Faegre     aron@c-spa.org 

Aron Faegre was a wannabe seaplane pilot from age 5, when he began helping in the portaging of canoes between fishing lakes in Northern Ontario, near his family’s cabin.  He knew there must be a better way and when a float plane flew over one day, he knew he had seen it.  Unfortunately, it took 40 more years for him to achieve that dream.  His day job is as an architect, engineer, and landscape architect, running a small design firm in downtown Portland.  One of the firm’s specialties is airport planning, and the other, wilderness camps. Aron has served as the CSPA President since 1999.  He enjoyed the benefit of a close personal friendship as a neighbor to founding member Dave Wiley for nearly 15 years.  He has led our group through some difficult times and with the help of his trusty VP, has taken up the mantle of seaplane access with renewed vigor.

Vice-President:  Bill Wainwright.    bill@c-spa.org  
Bill is a grizzled (in a good way) veteran pilot who has been involved with the CSPA since the beginning in 1980.  Bill purchased his first floatplane in 1973 in Anchorage Alaska and has since flown over 4000 hours mostly in floatplanes.  He currently owns a Piper PA-11 and a Cessna 180, both of which have spent considerable time configured as floatplanes flying in Alaska and around the Pacific Northwest.  Bill has completed over 20 round trips to and from Alaska in these planes.  Bill has been very active in CSPA access issues: traveling to Montana to testify on proposed restrictions to floatplanes in the Missouri River Breaks and here in Oregon fighting to retain access to Waldo Lake in the Cascade Mountains. Bill’s efforts along with officers from SPA and the Washington Seaplane Pilots Association were responsible for the continued nonrestricted status of Vancouver Lake in Vancouver Washington. In addition to his position as Vice President of the CSPA Bill is a past Field Director for the national Seaplane Pilots Association for Oregon and Idaho.  His ratings include ASEL&S, AMEL, Commercial, and Instrument and he also has an A&P mechanics license.

Treasurer:  Cliff Gerber.     cliff@c-spa.org    Cliff Gerber converted to the float flying world in July of 2008, but has been a pilot for 25 years with 1500 hours of general aviation experience under his belt, traveling at ease by land, sea, and through the clouds if necessary.  With a home on the Willamette River and a friendly welcoming dock out back, there really was no good excuse not to fly seaplanes.   While still basking in the rosy glow of owning half of a 1948 Stinson station wagon on floats, it made perfect sense to be swept into the office, filling the empty post of CSPA treasurer.   He has made an incredible impact on the long-awaited CSPA website, and will no doubt prove to be a valuable asset to our group.  Cliff has served proudly as the CSPA treasurer since May of 2009. In September of 2009, Cliff purchased the RV7amphib from Trey Johnson and has loved every minute of it. Flying it from his dock on the Willamette River through Arizona, California, Washington, Idaho, British Columbia, to Oshkosh, the Bahamas, and back.
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