Our mailing address is:
EAA Chapter 563
1320 W. Bird Blvd.
Peoria, IL 61615
By phone, the chapter president, J.J. Hoevelmann, is available at (309)303-7200. By e-mail, use info@eaa563.org, which is handled by the chapter secretary, Karl Kleimenhagen. For Young Eagles inquiries in particular, there is eagles@eaa563.org, which routes to Todd Moore, the chapter's coordinator.
Your query will be forwarded to the appropriate member of the chapter. Chapter members can access the directory of phone numbers and e-mail addresses stored in the Members section of this site.
To join a local chapter of the EAA, you must hold the corresponding membership category (individual or family) in the national EAA. Chapter dues are $40, individual or family. Our application form can be mailed to the address above or brought to the next chapter meeting.
The chapter is a 501(c)(3) public charity, and donations to it are tax deductible.
Caterpillar employees and retirees who make a donation to the chapter are eligible for a matching gift from the Caterpillar Foundation. When applying for the match, the chapter's entry can be found by searching for "Experimental Aircraft" in Illinois and then selecting Chapter 563. Alternately, our tax ID can be used: 371404957
The chapter is also set up with Benevity, a company used by many large corporations for gift matching, including a number of companies in the Peoria area.
While HQ offers free site hosting for chapters, it is rather cumbersome. If other chapters are curious, this site is hosted at Hostinger, although the author has also used WebHostingPad with equal success (and at the same low cost). Google Domains is used for the domain name server, but either hosting service mentioned can also do this. Pages are coded in HTML and CSS by hand, for which W3schools is a fine reference. Through CSS, an effort has been made to make pages render well on phones, desktops, and printers. Images are reduced with Compress or Die, although Web Resizer has been used, too. WinSCP is used to synchronize the internet site with the editor's copy on a PC. Once set up, this is much easier to maintain than HQ's Sitecore.