The Experimental Aircraft Associationis offering free first flights for young people ages 8-16 at Drake Field in Fayetteville on Saturday, June 21, 2008. Each child must be accompanied by a parent.
The children will fly with pilots that are certificated through the Federal Aviation Agency in the pilot’s own plane. Children will usually be able to handle the flight controls and actually fly the airplane. It is a fairly short flight of about 20 minutes over Fayetteville.
Registration starts at 8:00am. The children will participate in a short class of about 30 minutes to explain what is going to happen, then the flights will begin. The children will receive a certificate after the flight.
For more information call:
Warren Jones 841-3791 or reply to :warren.jones1@cox.net
These flights are part of the Association’s Young Eagles Flight Orientation Program.
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Please accept my thanks for helping with our publicity for the event! We had a standing room only crowd, and we providied the opportunity of flight to 135 young people!!! We are planning our next event for the Rogers Airport on Saturday, August 16, using the same format & timing. We will be at the Beaver Lake Aviation hangar, adjacent to the Viet Nam Memorial (Air Force Jet & Army helicopter next to the highway. I submitted a comment before the event to correct the age range, but I don’t think it made it into your article. It should have been age 8-17. Please call me…(Cell: 479-409-6920), and thanks again!
Dave Bowman, Young Eagles Coordinator