My chapter had our first board meeting of the year yesterday and the topic of verifying the EAA National membership status of our local chapter members came up. We have some members who want to be involved locally but do not want an EAA National membership. I know this is not an issue unique to our chapter. We do strongly encourage an EAA National membership, but at the same time, aviation is a small community and we don't want to push anyone away from our chapter just because they won't get a National membership. As a solution, we came up with a "Limited Chapter Membership" to address this issue which has scaled back privileges within our chapter. The issue we now have is verifying who is truly a paid member of EAA National. Just because someone had a membership number when they joined our chapter doesn't mean it's still current. Does anyone know if there is an easy way for determining this?

I thought an online tool would be nice for Chapter leaders to verify this. We could enter a set of EAA membership numbers into a text box, much like the UPS tracking number tool on the UPS website, and have it display the status of each EAA number. It would just need to show the expiration date of the membership or if it's already expired; no personal info would be needed. We have 97 members so it would need to be a batch process as one at a time would be way too time consuming!

Kevin