2014-2015 EVIT students with mentors, David, Gordon and Ron
Project kick off
EAA Ch 228 members are mentoring EVIT aviation program students in building a WAIEX kit aircraft. We meet at the EVIT campus at Gateway Airport on Saturdays. EAA Ch 228 is a 501(c)(3) non profit. If you would like to support this project, please go to www.eaa228.org and click on the "Teen Flight" link on the home page. Thank you.
Young Eagles Day
Three of the EVIT students joined a large group of scouts for the Young Eagles event at Falcon Field in Mesa, AZ. Thanks to all the pilots and ground crew who volunteered to give these kids a ride. In 4 hours, 74 kids got to experience flight in a general aviation or experimental airplane!
Young Eagles Day
EAA Chapter 228 held another Young Eagles event for the Boy Scouts at Falcon Field, Mesa, AZ. Seven pilots turned out to fly 43 scouts. Courtney from the EVIT-Waiex build team helped out on the registration table. Thanks again to the pilots and ground crew that made this a safe and successful event for the fourth consecutive year.
2015-2016 Class
Starting our 3rd year
Resumed building with a new crop of aviation students. This is a totally new group of kids but they got right to work.
The 2016-2017 team
Starting our fourth year
We have a new group of teens to kickoff the 2016-2017 school year at EVIT. Today we talked about the project and started out by building a wing stand and prepping the right wing to finish skin riveting.
This is the first group
This is the second group
EVIT Team for 2107-2018 School Year
Kicked off our fifth year of building the Waiex airplane. Welcome to the students and new mentors Howard and Brad. This year we will divide the group into 4 smaller teams.