Outlaw Aviation News
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Flying Start Event w/ Young Eagle Flights
04 May, 2019
We completed a Flying Start event. Learning basics of flight and instruction in a FAA certified Advanced Aviation Training Device.
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Welcome our newest Private Pilot to our Outlaw community!
05 Dec, 2018
Trever Schutte, a senior at Sisters High School just passed his private pilot check ride.
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Young Eagles flight at Sisters Airport
05 Nov, 2018
Sisters Airport was bustling with 25 high school students, numerous parents, and five community volunteer pilots giving Young Eagles flights free of charge.
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Students fly to campout
12 Aug, 2018
Sisters Flight Science students got the chance to fly in to a backcountry overnight campout with instructors Sam Monte, Walt Lasecki and Brian Lansburgh at McKenzie Bridge airstrip.
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Rally on the Runway - 2018
24 Jun, 2018
Annual 4th of July fundraiser. 5k run, plane and car show, with drag racing down the runway 8am to 12pm. All proceeds from Sisters Airport and Outlaw Aviation go to the Sisters High School "flight science" program.
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Sisters High aviation program draws aspiring pilots
27 Jan, 2018
Jake Lee moved from Pendleton to Sisters just so he could learn to fly. At 8, he said, he flew for the first time, accompanying his father, an aerial photographer for an engineering firm in Hermiston in a small plane.
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Sisters students take to the skies -- and the simulator
19 Jan, 2018
For some students at Sisters High School, there's no such thing as "fear of flying." That's thanks to a unique flight science program the school has offered for the past five years.
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Aviation students 'fly' in simulator
16 Jan, 2018
"I think we are the only high school aviation program in the country to get an FAA-certified sim," said Sheryl Yeager, FAA Certificated Flight Instructor (CFI) and SHS Flight Science teacher.
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Fly-in marked 4th of July, Independence Day
11 Jul, 2017
The planes buzzed overhead and the engines of hot rods and drag racers roared on Tuesday, July 4, as the Sisters community turned out to celebrate Independence Day at Sisters Eagle Airport.
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Sixteen-year-old solos in aviation flight program
06 Jun, 2017
Reflecting on his thoughts during his first flight without an instructor, Schutte says, "The plane flew so differently with just me in it. It was even more exciting than the first time I drove a car by myself."
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Aviation education is a community effort in Sisters
04 Jun, 2017
Already the community’s embrace of the rural high school’s aviation curriculum has produced one new private pilot. Several students have soloed, including a handful so far in 2017.
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Sisters students take flight
24 Jun, 2015
When teens approach the driving age, some parents become nervous about letting them get behind the wheel to start learning. But what about letting them get in the pilot seat of an airplane?
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Flight instructor helps aviation program soar
18 Nov, 2014
The flight instructor looked pleased as he watched the Cessna 172 receive its new Outlaw Aviation tail art. The logo identifies it as being the flagship of the Aviation Flight Science course at Sisters High School.
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