It’s not often a volunteer shows up for an RAF project with a passion for flying the backcountry and a career of cartography behind him. Ronald Normandeau was raised in Polson, Montana, attended the University of Montana, spent 22 years with the U.S. Geological Survey and retired from the U.S. Forest Service after a career as a Cartographer/Photogrammetrist. Ron earned his pilots’ license in 1964 and proceeded to “use every method known to man to find ways to fly and finance flying,” he says. He has completed the fifteen year restoration project of restoring a 1947 Aeronca Chief and is involved in getting the no bounce landing gear to stop throwing him back into the air.
Ron and his wife Kathy have retired in Polson.
