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 Young Eagles
The Young Eagles Mission
The Mission of the EAA Aviation Foundation's
Young Eagles Program is to provide a meaningful flight experience for 1 million
young people between the ages of 8 and 17 by the year 2003--the 100th
anniversary of the Wright brother's first powered flight--and the 50th
anniversary of EAA.
The Young Eagles Objectives
The Young Eagles Program hopes to achieve a number of objectives. They include:
- Encourage young people to become interested in flying;
- Provide young people with an opportunity to gain new perspectives on their
community, their lives and the world in which they live;
- Raise awareness of aviation career possibilities;
- Help young people understand the knowledge necessary to become a pilot;
- Respond to concerns that the nation's pool of pilots is growing smaller
because fewer new pilot starts and the number of pilots who are growing
older--a situation that could cause a shortage of military and commercial
pilots by the year 2000.
This GOAL was REACHED in 2003!!!
But the Mission Continues
To learn more about EAA Chapter 289's
involvement with Young Eagles Click on the logo below. To learn more about the
Young Eagles program click on the Young Eagles Logo on the top
of this page.
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