There’s an aircraft maintenance class, rocket club where students create their own rockets and actually launch them, and drone piloting classes for youth starting at age 10. The Flight Academy class is one of several happening at the airport on Thursday nights. Students who excel in the class are offered free flight training. The ground program is designed for youth 14-19 years old who have dreams of becoming pilots. “I want to be a commercial pilot so I’m trying to study for my private pilot license,” said 15-year-old Lauyrn Billingsley who’s halfway through the ground program at the museum. Not only does the museum tell the stories of these national heroes, the facility doubles as a school and teaches youth in the community how to fly the historic aircraft. A partnership with the State of Michigan allows us to bring the airplane to the airport and do the conservation so it can be later displayed in memoriam to Tuskegee Airmen who perished during training,” Smith said. A Tuskegee Airmen crashed in 1943 in that aircraft. “We have a P39 Air Cobra which we brought up from Lake Huron. The Tuskegee Airmen National Museum is home to 14 flying aircraft and 1 of 3 museums in Detroit with Tuskegee Airmen artifacts. Brian Smith, President and CEO of the Tuskegee National Air Museum told “Live in the D’s,” April Morton. We are a very unique museum in that we curate historical artifacts of the Tuskegee Airmen,” Dr. If you thought the airport was just a bunch of empty hangers, you’re in for a surprise! “To me this is the most wonderful space in the United States.

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