• Pilots for Christ – Member 1996 to present (Life Member)

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  Board of Directors- Pilots for Christ , National 1997 to Present
• Vice President- Virginia Chapter – 1996 to 2009
• President- Virginia Chapter - 2009-Present

• Pilots for Christ – Member 1996 to present  Life Member

• Manassas Assembly of God                       
• Christian Motorcyclists Association - 2004 to Present (Bonnie too)

Lee DeArmond joined Pilots for Christ in 1995.  In 2002, Lee was elected to the National Board of Directors and served as the Vice President until he became the President in 2005.  Lee served as President of Pilots for Christ for six years, stepping down in August, 2011.  He is currently a member of the North Carolina Chapter and works tirelessly in that organization..  Lee is a retired Army Reserve Officer and a retired Federal Civil Servant having served more than 32 years.  He holds a multiengine instrument rating and flies a Cherokee Six.  He and his wife Shirley live in Granite Falls, NC.

Paul Pankratz has been a member of Pilot’s For Christ, International since about 2004 and has been the PCI – Minnesota chapter president since 2005.  He holds a commercial pilot’s certificate with multi-engine and instrument ratings.  Paul owns a 1968 Cessna C-177 Cardinal which he uses for PCI missions and for flying EAA Young Eagles, having flown 340 kids since joining the program in November 2000. 

Paul is employed by a twin cities based global provider of cleaning, sanitizing and infection protection products and services for the Institutional, Industrial, Food Service and Healthcare markets. 

After graduating from the University of Wisconsin – Madison in 1978 with a bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering Paul held multiple assignments for his employer which led him to live in various parts of the U.S. including Joliet, Illinois, Woodbridge, New Jersey and Dallas Texas.  A special engineering project gave him international exposure taking him to Brussels, Europe in 1998.  Paul is a certified Lean Six Sigma Green Belt and currently works in the R&D business sector of his original employer.

Paul is a musician and vocalist in the choir at his local church and for the past 7 years has volunteered as a team member for the RCIA process, the Right of Christian Initiation of Adults where he has also served as parish sponsor for adults seeking to enter the faith.

Paul is originally from Green Bay, Wisconsin and even though he has resided in Lakeville, Minnesota for the past 21 years he is a staunch Green Bay “Packer Backer”.  His hobbies include flying (of course), biking and tennis.

Hobbies: Flying and working so I can afford flying!!

Motto: Why would I walk when God will let me fly!!

Received Pilot certificate Nov. 26, 2008

Total hours 508

Hold:     Private Pilot Cert.

            Complex endorsement

            High Performance endorsement

            Instrument rating

            Working on commercial rating

Aircraft owned with partners: Cessna C182B; STC’d with 275 horse PPonk conversion scheduled this January; new paint scheduled this January; Instrument certified with WAAS enabled Apollo GNS 480; new       interior 2008 (beautiful); and to think God is sooooo good he lets me fly it!!