Past Presidents
The members who have led the Colorado Pilots Association since its founding in 1972.
Since 1972 the Colorado Pilots Association has been run by volunteers, and its president has always been one of them: a member elected by the membership to lead the board for the year. The president chairs the board and the Annual Membership Meeting, and appoints the committee chairs with the board's approval.
Officers are elected each year by the members' ballot, and the results are announced at the Annual Meeting in November. A term is one year. Since the 2020 bylaws a president may serve up to three consecutive terms, and several have come back to lead the club again years later.
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Adrian Nye 2023 - 2025
Adrian Nye, a general aviation pilot for 25 years, took over as president from Marty Brophy in December 2022. During his term CPA finished scanning its old newsletters into searchable PDFs, and he handed over to Andy Holmes at the end of 2025. Flight Lines: Dec 2022, Apr 2025, Nov 2025
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Marty Brophy 2020 - 2022
Marty Brophy served one year as vice president under Bart Jones and was elected president at the November 9, 2019 annual meeting. He led CPA through the COVID-19 pandemic in his monthly "Brophy's Broadcast" column and left office at the end of 2022 after three terms, the bylaw limit. Flight Lines: Dec 2019, Apr 2020, Nov 2022
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Gary Tobey 2016 - 2017
Gary Tobey worked on state legislative issues for CPA around 2010, including defending the state aviation trust fund, and was listed as Legislative Affairs chair in 2011. He became president in December 2015, and in October 2019 Flight Lines announced the former president's induction into the Colorado Aviation Hall of Fame. Flight Lines: Feb 2010, Jan 2011, Dec 2015, Oct 2019
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Ann Beardall 2014 - 2015
Ann Beardall got involved after asking Bob Kinney at the 2012 Christmas party how to help, and as president from December 2013 she made expanding membership, especially among younger and female pilots, her top goal. Her successor Gary Tobey thanked her as immediate past president and a continuing member of the Colorado Aeronautical Board. Flight Lines: Dec 2013, Dec 2015
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Mark Brown 2012 - 2013
Mark Brown, who joined CPA for its fly-ins, agreed to run for president after Walt Bell asked him, and wrote his first President's Message in December 2011. He served two terms, ending in 2013, and put Ann Beardall to work on the Light Sport Expo. Flight Lines: Dec 2011, Oct 2013, Dec 2013
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Bob Kinney 2009 - 2010
Bob Kinney of Henderson, who knew many members through CPA fly-ins, succeeded Sarah Dolliver as president in November 2008 and served the two-year limit, reporting membership at an all-time high in October 2010. As past president he nominated Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport for a CPA award. Flight Lines: Nov 2008, Oct 2010, Jan 2011
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Sarah Jane Dolliver 2007 - 2008
Sarah Jane Dolliver was CPA secretary in 2000 and vice president in 2005 before being elected president at the November 4, 2006 annual meeting; she wrote her last President's Message in October 2008. Her successor Bob Kinney recalled meeting her when she staffed the CPA membership booth at Wings Over the Rockies. Flight Lines: Nov 2000, Dec 2004, Nov 2006, Oct 2008, Nov 2008
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John Martyny 2004
John Martyny was elected president for 2004 and introduced himself in December 2003; his messages covered topics such as backcountry airstrips, and he wrote that he started flying in 1996. Bart Jones later cited him as typical of recent presidents who were fairly new to the organization. Flight Lines: Dec 2003, Jun 2004, Dec 2004
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Eric Jensen 2003
Eric Jensen checked South Dakota's pilot registration law before CPA's 2002 fly-in to Custer and went ahead with the trip, and as president his messages described fly-in trips such as a visit to Socorro, New Mexico for the Festival of the Cranes. He received a gift of appreciation as past president when John Martyny took over in late 2003. Flight Lines: Jun 2002, Dec 2002, Dec 2003
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Doug Mass 2001
Doug Mass was elected president at the fall 2000 annual meeting, and his November 2001 President's Message noted the Area Representative Program had been formalized in writing. Walt Barbo succeeded him as president in December 2001. Flight Lines: Nov 2000, Nov 2001, Dec 2001
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Will Barclay 1999 - 2000
William (Will) Barclay was elected president at the fall 1998 annual meeting but could not attend because of a mechanical problem on the Cessna 421 he was flying. He and his wife Sarah, the Flight Lines editor, owned Business Aircraft Sales at Boulder airport and hosted CPA's 1998 semiannual meeting at their hangar. Flight Lines: Feb 1998, Mar 1998, Dec 1998
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Bart Jones 1997 - 1998, 2005 - 2006 & 2018 - 2019
Bart Jones, who co-chaired the CPA fly-in committee with his wife Mary, was elected president for fiscal 1997 and served again in 2005-2006 and from late 2017. At the 2019 annual meeting he and Marty Brophy swapped titles, with Jones becoming vice president. Flight Lines: Oct 1996, Dec 1996, Jul 2005, Dec 2017, Nov 2019
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Patti Arthur 1996
Patti Arthur, a practicing attorney, chaired CPA's Safety Committee and represented CPA on Centennial Airport noise issues before becoming president in late 1995. Her President's Messages took on noise complaints and a proposed apartment complex near Centennial Airport, and she served as legal counsel to the new aviation council Mike Baldwin led. Flight Lines: Aug 1995, Oct 1995, Feb 1996, Apr 1996
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Michael Baldwin 1994 - 1995
Mike Baldwin was elected president for the 1993-1994 fiscal year and was succeeded by Patti Arthur in late 1995. He was elected president of CPA's Flight Safety Foundation in 1993, later chaired the steering committee forming a new Colorado General Aviation Council, and donated a 1942 Boeing Stearman to the Wings Over the Rockies Air & Space Museum. Flight Lines: Jun 1993, Nov 1993, Oct 1995, Dec 1995, Apr 2013
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Walter Bell 1993
Walter Bell, chairman of CPA's Airspace Committee, became president in late 1992 while reporting on the new Denver TCA. CPA named him Person of the Year in 2013 for a program of weekly fly-to-lunch outings, and in 2023 he stepped down after many years as Airspace Committee chairman. Flight Lines: Dec 1992, Dec 2013, Sep 2023
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Bill Standerfer 1992
Bill Standerfer of Fort Collins was elected president at the October 19, 1991 annual meeting; Flight Lines noted he would be the first CPA president from outside the Denver metro area. He chaired the mountain flying course when it became its own committee in 1992, and in 2024 was still teaching an EAA AirVenture seminar on mountain flying. Flight Lines: Aug 1991, Nov 1991, Oct 1992, Oct 2024
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Mark Meyer & Bill Marshall 1991
Mark Meyer, CPA membership chairman and then vice president, was elected president at the October 20, 1990 annual meeting, and left after presiding over his second board meeting in January 1991. Vice President Bill Marshall assumed the presidency when Mark Meyer left in January 1991 and served until Bill Standerfer took over in November 1991. In 1996 he and his wife Marlys were honored for their work on CPA's mountain flying program. Flight Lines: Nov 1989, Nov 1990, Feb 1991, Mar 1991, Mar 1991, Nov 1991, Dec 1996
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Vanita Gallo 1990
Vanita Gallo, an airline pilot who had been the first woman pilot hired by Frontier Horizon and later flew B-727s for United, started CPA's Aviation Education Committee in 1989. She was elected president at the October 21, 1989 annual meeting. Flight Lines: Dec 1986, May 1988, Jul 1989, Nov 1989
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Walt Barbo 1989, 2002 & 2011
Walt Barbo, newly retired from the FAA, was elected president for fiscal 1989, received special recognition for his 2002 year as president, and in November 2010 wrote that he was back as president for the third time. A World War II P-38 pilot who co-chaired CPA's airport awards, he received a CPA Lifetime Achievement award at his 100th birthday celebration in January 2024. Flight Lines: Nov 1988, Sep 1998, Dec 2002, Dec 2007, Nov 2010, Mar 2024
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Don Welsh 1988
Don Welsh became president in late 1987 and wrote the President's Corner through 1988, including a September 1988 summary of the new FAA transponder and Mode C rules. Walt Barbo replaced him in November 1988, and Welsh said he would stay on as a contributing reporter for the newsletter. Flight Lines: Dec 1987, Sep 1988, Nov 1988
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Sonny Elgin 1987
The November 1986 issue pictured newly elected President Sonny Elgin with his 1976 Bellanca Super Viking. He co-chaired the Denver-to-Jackpot Air Classic with Bruce Hulley and, as a former president, conducted aircraft maintenance seminars for CPA. Flight Lines: Nov 1986, May 1988, Apr 1989
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Vern Foster 1985 - 1986
Vern Foster's term as president began November 1, 1984, and a 1987 profile says membership grew faster during his 1984-86 presidency than in any comparable period since CPA's founding; he had earlier served a term as secretary. As president in 1985 he teamed with Bruce Hulley to start CPA's mountain flying course, and he was inducted into the Colorado Aviation Hall of Fame in November 1987. Flight Lines: Nov 1984, Nov 1987, Dec 1987, Dec 1990
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Jim vonTongeln 1983 - 1984
The September and October 1984 issues, the first in the archive, list W. James vonTongeln as CPA president. The archive says nothing else about his term. Flight Lines: Sep 1984, Oct 1984
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Bev Coleman 1981 - 1982
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Frank Gallo 1979 - 1980
Flight Lines identifies Frank Gallo as a CPA past president who chaired the Legislative Committee in 1988 and 1992. In 1992 he wrote that he had agreed to serve as the first president of the new Colorado Air Safety Foundation, formed as an adjunct of CPA. Flight Lines: May 1988, Nov 1988, Apr 1992, Dec 1992
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Bruce Hulley 1978
Flight Lines lists Bruce Hulley as CPA president in 1978; he later co-chaired the Denver-to-Jackpot Air Classic with Sonny Elgin, handled the ground school when CPA's mountain flying course got started in 1985, and chaired the Recognition and Awards committee. The February 2015 issue reported he had been laid to rest the previous month. Flight Lines: May 1988, Dec 1990, Oct 1999, Dec 2005, Feb 2015
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Joe Cook 1977
Joe Cook is pictured with six other CPA past presidents in the November 1988 issue. The archive says nothing else about his term. Flight Lines: Nov 1988
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Scott Hamilton 1976
Flight Lines described Scott Hamilton as an aviation attorney, a past president of CPA and a frequent contributor to the newsletter, and reported he was inducted into the Colorado Aviation Hall of Fame in 1988. In 1991 he was exploring the possibility of creating a foundation for CPA. Flight Lines: Jul 1988, Dec 1989, Jun 1991
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Carl Weil 1972 - 1975
Notes come from the club's newsletter, Flight Lines; each issue named under a note links to that edition. The founders and the club's first members are on The Founding Ledger. More on the club: History & Mission. Have a correction or a story about a past president? Let us know.
