SCApA sends our congratulations to the volunteer pilots and supporters of Reid Hillview Airport who organized a fantastically successful Take Flight for Kids Day this past Sat. Aug. 8th. Their efforts introduced 750 South Bay children to aviation and provided free rides in small planes and helicopters. According to the Mercury News story, “The passengers were mostly special-needs children, who have afflictions ranging from attention-deficit disorder to autism to Down syndrome. Some were disadvantaged youths.”
After returning from a flight, one of the children remarked “It was cool,” he said, adding, “Who knows, maybe one day I can fly on my own.”
This event clearly demonstrates the spirit of volunteerism and outreach that characterizes the community of small plane pilots and our willingness to give back to the community.
SCAPA continues this tradition with our own Kids Day on Aug. 18, 2009 at San Carlos Airport. We will host over a hundred young children for a wonderful morning at the airport including ground-based tours of planes, rescue helicopters, police cars, and an airport fire engine.
