It all began on May 30, 2012, when I stepped onto a United Airlines Airbus A320 for the first time. At the time I was only four years old going ... Read more
Since 1992, more than 2.3 million youths have taken their first ride in an airplane through the EAA Young Eagles program. At the Wausau Downtown Airport in Wausau, Wisconsin, dedicated ... Read more
Dorinda Morpeth, EAA 637600, can’t get enough of flying Young Eagles. We wrote about her a few years ago after her 300th Young Eagles flight, and now she’s back, celebrating ... Read more
It was a beautiful day in October 2016 when 10-year-old Dakota Wagner took her first Young Eagles ride. The Greene County Airport host chapter, EAA Chapter 382, assigned her to ... Read more
Thanks to a gift from the Michigan Business Aviation Foundation and a matching gift from the Dick & Betsy DeVos Foundation, West Michigan Aviation Academy students began building a Carbon ... Read more
We write and share a lot of stories about our Young Eagles program and how much those first flights mean to kids, but it’s not often that we get a ... Read more
Five years ago, Rosie Rivera had her first flight in a general aviation airplane. On September 16, 2023, she was in the pilot’s seat when EAA Chapter 534 held a ... Read more
Ace Kehoe, EAA 1537419, is known as the “aviation kid” at his Florida high school, and it’s a title he’s fully embracing! At just 16 years old, Ace is forming ... Read more
Congratulations to Ed Jeziorny, EAA 31825, of Omro, Wisconsin! On August 19, 2023, Ed flew his 1,000th Young Eagle at Chicago Executive Airport in Wheeling, Illinois.
As a volunteer for the EAA Young Eagles program, my ultimate goal is to have one of the Young Eagles go on to become a pilot themselves. I got to ... Read more
Two members of EAA Chapter 64 have recently reached milestones. Diane Earhart, 66, of Belleville, Illinois, has earned the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Wright Brothers Master Pilot Award, and ... Read more
