Celebrities and Mentors Bring Flight to the Imaginations of Youth
https://vimeo.com/928475061 By Eagle Aviators Team Former NBC Channel 9 KUSA Denver News reporter and pilot, Amelia Rose Earhart opened the eyes of local students — and adults — as she provided an intimate talk to young aviation enthusiasts. As her namesake, Amelia circled the globe in a Pilatus PC-12NG, a single engine turbo prop aircraft. […]
Eagle County School District & Youth Power 365 Adding Horsepower
President, Michael Dunlevie invited Eagle County School District’s Shannon Grant and her team to pay a visit on-site to see how the School District and Eagle Aviators may partner. Shannon is the Director of Post-Secondary Learning and Career Readiness for the District. On April 15, 2024, more than 20 children paid a visit along with […]
Eagle Aviators’ Aidan Kelley Heading To Embry-Riddle
Aidan Kelley, 17 years old, will graduate from Vail Christian High School (VCHS) in May of this year, bound for Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University’s Daytona Beach Florida Campus this fall. Aidan attributes his acceptance to Embry-Riddle “Because of the Eagle Aviators program.” Like most Eagle-Vail families, his parents chose to raise their children in this valley because […]
Taurus Takes to the Skies in Eagle
Pictured left, Board Director Hap Pool buckles up to join Director George Saunders for the inaugural flight of Eagle Aviator’s newly acquired Taurus. Pool and Saunders took to the skies in Eagle on May 25, 2023 and have since logged about a dozen landings each. The game plan is to train local flight instructors who […]
2023 Inaugaral Class of Next Gen Aviators Gaining Hands On Experience
As the page turned for 2023, students in the Vail Valley are redefining fun at 6547.4 feet (the elevation at EGE Airport), and it is not on the ski slopes. The inaugaral class of next gen aviators is working with dedicated aviation professionals and volunteers to build a Hatz 1960s light biplane designed by John […]
Young Eagle Aviators Convene for Launch
Eager to learn and eager to share, aviation enthusiasts young and old gather at the Vail Valley Jet Center maintenance center on December 4, 2022. Board of Directcors David Lohmann, Hap Pool, Michael Dunlevie, David Fiore and George McNeil held a barbecue and show and tell for local students and parents to share the vision […]
Eagle High on Road to Fly Hatz
Two founding board members, Hap Pool and Geroge McNeil, made a cross country trek in November 2022 to pick up a partially completed Hatz Bi-Plane kit in a U-Haul truck traveling more than 2,000 miles. Board member Michael Dunlevie was alerted to an opportunity to secure the bi-plane if the Board could figure out away […]
Vail Valley Jet Center Supports Eagle Young Aviators
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUIDwvUg7iE&t=1shttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHOmBV4js_E The Board of Directors of the Eagle Young Aviators (EYA) is pleased to have the support of Signature Aviation, formerly known as the Vail Valley Jet Center (VVJC). Signature Aviation generously provided key space in one of its maintenance hangars at Eagle County Regional Airport (EGE) to support EYA. The Board of EYA took […]