Parents are always amazed at what a great service we provide by facilitating the EAA Young Eagle Flights for the kids in our community. The events have cost our chapter nearly nothing. They are facilitated by volunteer ground crew and pilots who pay for their own aircraft maintenance and fuel. So a huge THANK YOU! goes to the pilots and ground crew who make this event happen.

Our next Young Eagle event is planned for next July, when we can expect to have good weather again.

Here are some stats:

• From March through October, EAA 105 put on 7 YE events on first Saturdays of the month to align with the EAA 105 Monthly Breakfast.
• On average we flew 15 kids per event. A total of 102 kids, of which 36 were girls, 65 boys, and 1 other.
• We averaged 7 pilots per event from our stable of 22 pilots, of which 17 were involved.
• We haven’t done any advertising, other than word of mouth and YEday.org.
• Our events are smaller than most, however, we do them every month during the spring and summer.
• Welcoming the YE families to the breakfast and to Twin Oaks Airpark has also increased the breakfast attendance and acceptance of the airport within the community.
• EAA 105 was awarded a plaque for providing Young Eagle Flights for 30 consecutive years since the program began.

Go to YEday.org to find and register your child for a Young Eagle Flight at an event in your area.