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One thing that I take great pride in is being involved in local aviation events that support the community.
This privately owned airport hosts one of the largest fly-ins in Ohio! A main reason for this fly-in is to help foster and encourage a love of aviation in hopes to encourage new pilots taking to the skies. While you’re there, visit our local artisans, wood carvings, hot air engine, kids activities and lots of airplanes and antique tractors (look but please do not touch the airplanes or tractors). Kids activities include pumpkin painting (take home your painted prize pumpkin), milking cow trainer, train rides, hay rides, corn pit, swings and slides, and ice cream.
In 2024, for the first time ever, I moved the simulator to the fly-in to provide kids and adults alike an opportunity to virtually fly into the same airport that they were visiting.
Approximately 40 young kids and adults had a chance to fly into My Place 3OH0 from the Morrow County Airport 4i9.
I look forward to being able to provide this same opportunity for them in the future!
Youth Aviation Adventure is a semi-annual event and I'm happy to repeatedly volunteer for it. In 1997, Steve Wathen and Dan Kiser founded the Youth Aviation Adventure Program (YAA) in Columbus, Ohio as a way to help Steve’s son and other scouts from their troop earn their Boy Scout Aviation Merit Badges. The two men enjoyed sharing their love of aviation with the boys so much they began recruiting scouts from other nearby troops and offering their Aviation Merit Badge program twice a year. As the program became more popular, Dan and Steve enlisted other pilots and aviation enthusiasts as volunteers to expand and upgrade the content of the program, and it has since expanded to include Girl Scouts, youth from other organizations, and anyone from the ages of 12-18 with an interest in aviation.
