Doug Reeves, of Highland Village, Texas, received this year’s Gordon Baxter journalism award. The award is given annually to an EAA member who best perpetuates the Gordon Baxter tradition of communicating the excitement and romance of grassroots aviation. Bax wrote his Bax Seat column in Flying for some three decades. He went west in 2005. Reeves is the founder of VansAirForce.net, an information-swapping website for builders of the popular RV series of kit planes. The site’s forums have 129,300 registered users. Flying Senior Editor Robert Goyer presented the plaque at the Van’s Air Force Banquet on Tuesday Night.
Bax Seat Award
