youth aviation websites

These Websites are devoted to youth in aviation.  As always, parents should guard their children's access to the Internet, and verify the suitability of the content they view.

  • Aerospace Education Foundation  The AEF vision is to educate America's youth in math and the sciences to help keep America's edge in aerospace technology.  An Air Force Association educational affiliate.

  • The Air Cadet Organization  The ACO is a national youth organization sponsored by the Royal Air Force in the UK. Membership is open to young people aged between 13 and 22 years.  Air Cadets enjoy flying, gliding, going on camps, taking part in all kinds of action, adventure and sports.

  • The Air League  Promotes air-mindedness in the young by encouraging and assisting them to follow careers in aviation and the aerospace industry, awards flying scholarships and bursaries to assist deserving young people to learn to fly, and awards engineering scholarships to assist deserving young people to gain experience of the aerospace industry.

  • The Airport Shoppe  This on-line pilot shop has a kids section with bomber jackets, pedal planes, kids books, and plush animals.

  • Arrow Alliance Scholarship Program  Targeted at young people graduating from Canadian high schools.

  • Artie the Airplane  Children's book and video series with colorful illustrations, engaging characters and dialogue, and fun story lines.

  • Aviation Explorers Post 445  Official website for Aviation Explorers Post 445.  An aviation club in Fullerton California for young adults ages 14-20.

  • Aviation Exploring  An aviation-based program for young men and women ages 14 through 20 that is a division of the Boy Scouts of America and seeks to build character, train leaders, and encourage fitness.

  • Aviation for Children  A website for children, with information about Concorde, Airbus, Boeing, WW2, and the Red Arrows, with many other bits of information.

  • Aviation Scholarship Foundation  An aviation charity dedicated to students from impoverished communities with a mission to fund private pilot training for low income youth.

  • Aviation Youth Program The Aviation Youth Program is intended for boys and girls possessing the maturity level necessary to benefit from aviation training.  IFR Flight Training School is located at the Austin, Texas Executive Airpark.

  • AvKids.com  A program designed to educate elementary school students about the benefits of business aviation to the community and the career opportunities available to them in the business aviation industry.  Kid's hanger, teacher's lounge, resource center, speaker's center, links.

  • Balloon Explorium  Dedicated to school programs utilizing ballooning to illustrate the concepts of physics, math, geography, and weather.

  • Boeing Kids Page  Coloring, mazes, word games, cutouts, connect the dots.

  • EAA Air Academy  An aviation camp with workshops, aircraft collections, flight simulators, restorations-in-progress, and actual flight experiences.

  • EAA Aviation Young Eagles Web Site Exensive programs for young aviators.

  • FAA Aviation Education - Kids Corner  Activities such as coloring books, word puzzles, and experiments.

  • Faulkes Flying Foundation  Through the sport of gliding, this charity organization helps young people develop imagination, character and self determination with the excitement and possibilities of flight as a lifelong adventure and a fulfilling career prospect.

  • Fiddler's Green  Downloadable paper models (.pdf) of airplanes.

  • Flight Training Adventure Camps - Youth  The Reality Flight School offers various programs for youths from a stationary appetiser program with flight training up to first solo to a complete private pilot training program in the course of a 3000+ mile real life training expedition with tents and sleeping bags, a moving class room and, of course, airplanes.

  • flightoffancy.tk  This website is done by a 14 year old (in 2004) aviation enthusiast with a dream to travel throughout the world.

  • Flights of Inspiration  Created by The Franklin Institute Science Museum and the Science Museum, London to inspire students.

  • Flying: Just Plane Fun  A children's book on flying (by Julie Grist, ISBN 0-9725750-0-6) that shares both technical information and the joy of flying with young readers age 5-12.  Pilots and aviation buffs are buying it to share with their kids and grandchildren to get them interested in flight.

  • Flying Tree House  An aviation site for kids of all ages with games, mazes, word search, crossword puzzles, coloring pages and more!

  • Future Flyers Club  Aviation related toys, gifts, collectibles and apparel for children.

  • Ghost Wings  An aviation magazine produced by high school students and dedicated to honoring military aviators and support personnel.

  • The Girls Venture Corps Air Cadets  A uniformed youth organisation for girls aged 11-20, aiming to meet the aspirations of young women by providing an aviation, adventure and travel-based programme of activity.

  • Great Western Soaring School  A week of sailplane instruction and flying for students age 14 to 18.

  • Junior Flyer Aviation fun and education for kids and kids at heart. Join Captain Turb and his crew as they explore the diverse world of aviation and the airline industry.

  • NASA Glenn Educational Activities  Educational programs for Kindergarten through Grade 12 (K-12).

  • NASA Quest Project  With a mission to provide support and services for schools, teachers and students to fully utilize the Internet, and its underlying information technologies, as a basic tool for learning.  The Quest Project is a service of the Education Program of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.  Quest is located at Ames Research Center and is managed by NASA's Learning Technologies Project (LTP) of the High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC) Program.

  • National Cadet Web Site  The Home Site of approximately 55,000 Air, Sea, and Army Cadets.

  • New England Air Museum  Summer programs for students that are co-instructed by instructors and professionals from the aeronautical industry.  Located in Windsor Locks, Connecticut.

  • PapaInk, The International Children's Art Archive  A non-profit organization celebrating children's creative spirit and displaying pictures they have drawn.  While not aviation-specific, the archives contain many pictures children have drawn of airplanes.  Children can also add their own.

  • Piedmont Silver Eagles Charitable Funds, Inc.  Includes a fund to promote Aviation Career Days for children.  This fund is geared toward lower, middle and high school students.  It will aid and financially promote Discovery (initial flights) for those over 15 at accredited and licensed flight schools.

  • PlaneMath  A place for students and teachers to learn about math and aeronautics.

  • The Royal Aero Club Trust  Advancing the cause of air sport and aviation by actively raising funds to help young people to take part in air sports and recreation.

  • Royal Canadian Air Cadets An organization for Canadian youth between the ages of 12 and 19.  The Air Cadet organization is based on a military structure, but the youth involved remain civilians and have no commitment to serve in Canada's military at any time.

  • Royal Canadian Air Cadets Info Page  Squadron listings and info.  For 12 to 19 year olds.

  • SciJinks  This interactive web site (provided by NOAA and NASA) provides middle-school students and audiences of all ages an opportunity to learn about weather and emergency preparedness.

  • The Scout Association  The Air Scouts branch offers flying activities.

  • Stepping Stones to Aviation, Inc.  This organization seeks to enrich education for children by introducing young people to the experience of flight in a hands-on program where children can climb into airplane simulators, pedal down an authentic runway, and taxi into a controlled airspace.

  • Thunderbird Aviation - Youth Programs  Young flyers clinics and aviation flying camp from Thunderbird Aviation in Minnesota.

  • Wright Flight, Inc.  The mission of Wright Flight is to use the motivational power of aviation to stimulate students to set and achieve higher goals in their educational and personal development.  From the examples of aviation role models, students are taught that through commitment and hard work they can achieve their own goals, have aviation-related experiences, and develop a more positive self concept.

  • The Youth Aviation Foundation  Adults mentoring youth in aerospace science, leadership, and good citizenship through a foundation dedicated to the support of Viking Squadron, Civil Air Patrol, and other youth-related aviation activities in Minneapolis and its southwest suburbs.

  • YouthFlightCanada  Established to inspire, motivate, educate, and foster self esteem within challenged and disadvantaged youth.