Young Eagles

Young Eagles Rallies:

Chapter 221 rallies for 2025.

May 17 from the Air Zoo at the Kalamazoo Airport AZO 9 until 12.

June 14 at the Plainwell Airport 61D 9 until 12

To sign up, check out the main Young Eagles website...

Rally one

When: Saturday May 17th, 2025
Where: Kalamazoo Airport AZO at the AirZoo Fight Discovery Center (AKA restoration Center)
Time: 9 - 12

The AirZoo donates the use of the FDC (Thanks Troy!) and admission into the FDC is free on rally day.  If people want to go to the main building, they have to pay admission but it is free to come in to the FDC for the Young Eagles rally.

Rally Two

When: Saturday June 14th, 2025
Where: Plainwell Municipal Airport 61D
Time: 9 - 12
 
Through our partnership with Plainwell Aviation and STEM Academy (PASA), youth who have attended our Young Eagles rallies have gone on to pursue flight training and earn their Private Pilot Certificate.  Six of those youth are currently working for major airlines and are serving in the USAF.  A half dozen more have attended aviation summer camp and are currently working on their Private Pilot Certificate. These PASA youth also return to serve as pilots and ground crew for current Young Eagles rallies.

Please help by signing up to be either a pilot or a ground crew for our upcoming events. You are making a difference in the lives of our youth. 

June 22, 2023

Hello to all from the Chapter 221 Young Eagles Crew,

Thank you to everyone for another successful Young Eagles Rally. At the Plainwell Municipal Airport, we flew 71 youth between the age of 8 and 17. The ground crew and the pilots were awesome.

If you have not volunteered with us for a while you might want to come out and see all the excited youth who are so interested in aviation and not just a free airplane flight. Many of the youth pilots in the Plainwell Youth Aviation Program had their first flight as a Young Eagle. They may not be where they are today if you had not taken a bit of your time to introduce them to aviation.

We currently have a youth attending the Aviation Camp at Oshkosh at no cost due to the points the chapter earned through Young Eagles credits. She and her family could not have afforded the cost of that camp.

Again, thank you to everyone for your time, airplane, fuel and great attitudes.

Ginger DeVillers

Chapter 221 YE Coordinator

Check the Young Eagles website (https://eaachapters.org/) for more details…

Pilots and volunteers, youth protection certification and training: https://www.eaa.org/eaa/training/youth-protection-training

Other EAA pilot resources are here: https://www.eaa.org/eaa/pilots/pilot-resources

Phillips 66 fuel rebate info here.

Find a flight: https://eaachapters.org/

Founded in 1992, the Young Eagles program is dedicated to giving youth ages 8–17, an opportunity to go flying in a general aviation airplane. These flights are offered free of charge and are made possible through the generosity of EAA member volunteers. 

For more information from EAA headquarters about the Young Eagles program, visit www.youngeagles.org