by EAA | Apr 23, 2021 | Chapters, Homebuilding, homebuilt, RV-12, youth, Youth & Young Eagles
How one EAA chapter’s relationship with a local school led to a win-win for all involved. Read...
by EAA | Apr 8, 2021 | aviation museums, Chapters, EAA Chapter 317, Young Eagles, Youth & Young Eagles
On April 3, EAA Chapter 317 partnered with the Fargo Air Museum to offer Young Eagles flights as part of the Air Museum’s Intro to Aviation Camp. Read...
by EAA | Mar 29, 2021 | Chapters, Podcast, The Green Dot, Why We Fly, Youth & Young Eagles
The Green Dot crew sat down with EAA CEO and Chairman of the Board Jack J. Pelton to look back at 2019 from an EAA and general aviation at large perspective. Read...
by EAA | Mar 20, 2021 | Youth & Young Eagles
Grass-roots initiative introduces millions of kids to the possibilities of flight September 15, 2016 – What started in 1992 as a program to introduce kids to flight has evolved into an aviation movement powered by the world’s largest volunteer air force. The EAA Young...
by Megan Esau | Mar 20, 2021 | Milestones, pilot, solo, Youth & Young Eagles
Congratulations to 16-year-old Justin McDowell, EAA 1174050, who completed his first solo October 31 in a Cessna 172 on floats off of Whitewater Lake in northern Ontario. Although he went into the day understandably nervous, he said once he completed the run up and...
by Megan Esau | Mar 20, 2021 | airplane building, Chapters, glider, Homebuilding, homebuilt, Youth & Young Eagles
November 17, 2016 – A group of 15 middle and high school students in Billings, Montana, are building a 1929 Northrup Primary Glider under the direction of Pat Kenney, EAA 275132, a science teacher and EAA Chapter 57 member. “When people say kids aren’t interested,...
