The document is a newsletter from Showalter Flying Service that includes the following: 1) It discusses the Florida Aviation Business Association (FABA), an organization that represents aviation businesses in Florida. Several members of the Showalter family are involved in leadership roles with FABA. 2) It announces that the gate code for based customers at Showalter Flying Service will change on September 16th and the new code will only be given out in their lobby. 3) It continues a story about the author having lunch at Chalet Suzanne restaurant with Carter and sharing memories of visiting the restaurant as a child with his mother long ago.

1. THE FLY PAPER
SHOWALTER FLYING SERVICE
Inside this issue:
Lunch With Carter 2
Lodi’s Lowdown 2
SEPTEMBER 2013
Special points
of interest:
 FABA
 Gate Code Change
The Orlando Executive Airport (KORL)
400 Herndon Avenue
Orlando, FL 32803
Phone: 407-894-7331
Fax: 407-894-5094
E-mail:
jenny@showalter.com
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Formerly known as the Florida Aviation Trades Association
(FATA), the renamed Florida Aviation Business Association
is an organization the Showalter Family feels passionate
about! In fact, when FABA’s Executive Director retired last
month, Bob Showalter was selected to step in as the Interim
Director. In addition, Sandy Showalter is currently serving on the Executive Commit-
tee of the Board as the Immediate Past Chair. And if that isn’t enough, Jenny
Showalter is now handling some of FABA’s media and marketing.
For those of you that don’t know about FABA, it is a member organization comprised
of aviation related businesses from Florida, including FBO’s, flight schools, mainte-
nance shops, aircraft manufactures, and many other companies supporting general
aviation. FABA is an invaluable resource for these members compiling their resources
in order to have a larger presence in the state. Together, members retain a lobbyist
in Tallahassee to watch out for the interests of our industry.
Anyone flying in the state of Florida has felt the positive effects of FABA’s efforts. For
example, have you noticed that you are no longer charged sales tax on your aircraft
maintenance bill? That was FABA’s doing!
In the coming months you will be hearing more from the Showalter’s about FABA and
how you have been directly impacted by some of the work FABA has done in Tallahas-
see!
Showalter Flying Service’s Based Customer Gate Code
will change on Monday, September 16, 2013.
THE NEW GATE CODE WILL NOT BE
GIVEN OUT OVER THE PHONE TO
ANYONE!
Be prepared to come into our lobby to sign for the new
key pad code anytime after 6:00AM September 16th.
Florida Aviation Business Association

2. Page 2The Fly Paper
Chalet Suzanne has been operated by the Hinshaw
family since 1931. Just as four generations of
Showalters have operated Showalter Flying Service
(have you seen Evan marshalling jets in his minia-
ture headset and reflective vest?), four generations
of Hinshaws have run Chalet Suzanne.
Over the years the Chalet built a loyal following
among travelers, including Duncan Hines (back in
the 1930s he was famous for “Adventures in Good
Eating”), many entertainment celebrities, and gang-
sters and their showgirl companions on the road
trip from Chicago to Palm Beach.
Today Chalet Suzanne is a Mobil Dining Guide three-star restaurant, and is listed
in the National Register of Historic Places. Their romaine soup has even been to
the Moon on Apollo 15, and was chosen by the Russians for the Apollo-Soyuz
joint dinner mission.
Unless you’re flying a Cirrus, you probably can’t afford dinner. But the world-class
breakfast is a bargain at $17 per person. Start with broiled grapefruit or fresh
juice, then have chive scrambled eggs and the delicate Swedish pancakes, bacon,
sausage, oh goodness! Or try the eggs Benedict on a puff pastry. If the lemony
Hollandaise is too much for you, just call ahead and they will make a more tradi-
tional version just for you. They have the best coffee I have ever tasted. Oh, and
those little one-bite pastries!
* * * * * * *
After landing, Carter and I step through the hedge and suddenly there is a sense
of deja vu. Something about the swimming pool. Oh look at that decorative tile
work: interesting, kind of exotic, but child-like, aw heck just say it, sloppy. Sloppy
tile work. And here is the walkway to the ramshackle restaurant, cobbled together
from many buildings after a fire years ago. Don’t trip on the way down. Hold on
to the handrail. Wait, who said that? Spooky, spooky. And we find ourselves in a
tiny sub-level bar. Look up at the second-story windows, translucent window
shades, Dickensian silhouettes cast on the … WHAM!
It hits me that I had been here before, long ago, in the fifties. Those silhouettes
had scared the daylights out of me. Hey, I was only six. With my mother. Long
ago, on a road trip from Chicago to Palm Beach. My mother was no gangster! But
even into her sixties she could high-kick over her head in heels, like a real Busby
Berkeley Girl.
And the memories gushed forth, irresistible. Being afraid of the silhouettes, hav-
ing them in my dreams. Mother tickling my palm to calm me down. (This worked
especially well in church when I would squirm from boredom.) Some creepy guy
with a skinny mustache who wore his bathing suit too high, deciding it was time I
learned to swim and pushing me into the deep end. (Even then I had enough fash-
ion sense to know this guido wore his pants way too high, and his garish tie too
short.) The child’s plate. The child’s plate? Why can’t I have what you’re having?
That was so long ago. But get this: tickling my palm still works.
Lodi’s Lowdown
Lunch With Carter-Chalet Suzanne (X25) part two
by: John Nadon
Nicolas Musashe and Wendy
Gorham correctly answered Lodi’s
Lowdown for the month of August.
The EAA board approved moving
their annual event to Oshkosh, WI
in 1969.
The question for September is:
Name at least one member of
the Florida Aviation Business
Association’s Entrepreneurial
Excellence Hall of Fame?
Please email your answers to
jenny@showalter.com.
Fun on the Ramp