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. […]
Leading Edge Support from Heartwood Custom Woodworks
Hap Pool, Vice President of Eagle Aviators needed help to construct the leading edge of the wings for the Hatz Biplane. The project Hap has been leading from the start is to teach students important stem skills necessary towards becoming aviation professionals. Hap decided to pay a visit to a Vail Valley expert, Heartwood Custom […]
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 […]
Birds of Feather Flock to Build the Hatz Biplane
At a gathering of general aviation enthusiasts at EGE Airport on the second Saturday of the month, the subject came up about the lack of pilots, mechanics and generally young people getting into the aviation fields. What was generally a simple get together to talk shop about flying airplanes spread wings and flew from there. […]
EA Acquires Pipistel Taurus Motor Glider
Board Director George Saunders pictured in a Taurus M to left. For more information about the Taurus, CLICK ON PICTURE. Thanks to a very generous donor, Eagle Aviators has acquired a Pipistrel Taurus motor glider. The Board of Directors plans to use this two-seat, side by side glider to teach our students the fine art […]