Free flights for kids!
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On Saturday, August 27 GFCA will host a Young Eagles Day at Gnoss Field, giving free airplane rides to kids ages 8 to 18. The Young Eagles program was launched in 1990 with the goal of giving 1 million kids a flight in a general aviation airplane by the turn of the century, and to date over 2.6 million kids ages 8 to 18 have been flown. Our chapter at Gnoss Field has flown over 1,000 Young Eagles in the past 18 years, and we enjoy the experience as much as the kids do!
These flights are absolutely free and are given by highly experience volunteer pilots in their personal planes.
For more information and to pre-register your Young Eagles (space is limited, so pre-registration is required), visit the Young Eagles Day website:
https://youngeaglesday.org/?4428
Young Eagles looking for new date
Our EAA Young Eagles event for Saturday November 5 was canceled due to low clouds. EAA requires that flights be conducted in VFR (visual flight rules) conditions that involve clouds higher than 3,000 feet and visibility greater than 5 miles. Morning clouds were less than 2,000 feet and obscured several ridges along our planned routeContinue reading “Young Eagles looking for new date”
Breakfast Meeting October 8
Join us Saturday, October 8 at 9:00 a.m. in the Scanlon Aviation hangar for our October GFCA breakfast-we’re back to our regular airport breakfast of eggs, pancakes, sausages, fresh fruit, coffee cake, coffee, and orange juice, prepared by our dedicated volunteer chefs! This month our guest speaker will be Kempton Izuno, a long time soaringContinue reading “Breakfast Meeting October 8”
Marin 99s Girl Scouts Day at Gnoss Field, March 19, 2022
The Marin 99s hosted Girl Scouts for an aviation badge day at Gnoss Field. Barbara O’Grady and Susan Royce presented a ground school then took them to a hangar for a walk-around a real airplane. For a copy of the presentation slides, see this post.