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The Young Eagles is a program created by the US Experimental Aircraft Association designed to give children between the ages of 8 and 17 an opportunity to experience flight in a general aviation airplane while educating them about aviation. The program is offered free of charge with costs covered by the volunteers.
Project Schoolflight was a youth outreach program of the Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) which was jointly co-founded in 1955 by EAA founder Paul Poberezny and Robert D. Blacker, the director of the Aviation Industrial Arts program at St. Rita of Cascia High School in Chicago, Illinois.
Bult Field is home to Chapter 260 of the Experimental Aircraft Association, providing facilities for the chapter's monthly meetings and aviation opportunities for youth, including free flights for kids through the EAA's Young Eagles program.
The Harbor Springs chapter of the Experimental Aircraft Association will provide free flights to kids on Sept. 14 at the Pellston Regional Airport as part of the Young Eagles program.
Young Eagles, a program of the Experimental Aircraft Association, tries to host these flights at least once a year. "EAA (Experimental Aircraft Association) came from Wisconsin, and this has been ...
One-time NFL All-Pro tight end Jimmy Graham has been named as the sole chairman of EAA's Young Eagles Program.
The program reached that goal, [20] and has continued, with more than 2 million young people flown as of July 2016 and more introduced to and educated around the benefits of general aviation. [21] The Young Eagles program has been overseen by a series of nationally famous chairmen: Cliff Robertson - founding chairman, film and stage actor (1992 ...
Jul. 26—Area young people ages 8-17 will have a chance to take to the skies on Saturday, Aug. 6th, as the Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) Chapter No. 386 hosts a Young Eagles Flight ...