page_title: Experimental Aircraft Association
section_title: Young Eagles
hierarchical_section_title: Experimental Aircraft Association / Programs and activities / Young Eagles
caption_attribution_description: English: Young Eagles GlaStar
context_page_description: The Experimental Aircraft Association is an international organization of aviation enthusiasts based in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, United States. Since its inception it has grown internationally with over 200,000 members and nearly 1,000 chapters worldwide, and hosts the largest aviation gathering of its kind in the world, EAA AirVenture Oshkosh.
context_section_description: The EAA also sponsors the Young Eagles program, which was started in 1992 by Tom Poberezny and others, with the aim of giving one million children an airplane ride by December 17, 2003, the Centennial of Flight (see Wright brothers and Wright Flyer). The program reached that goal, and has continued, with more than 2 million young people flown as of July 2016 and more introduced to and educated around the benefits of general aviation.
  The Young Eagles program has been overseen by a series of nationally famous chairmen:
  Cliff Robertson - founding chairman, film and stage actor (1992–1994)
  Chuck Yeager - USAF General and first man to fly faster than the speed of sound (1994–2004)
  Harrison Ford - film and stage actor (2004–2009)
  Chesley Sullenberger and Jeffrey B. Skiles - pilots of US Airways Flight 1549 (2009–2013)
  Sean D. Tucker - aerobatic pilot (2013–present)
  Jimmy Graham - NFL tight end (2018–present)
caption: A GlaStar built for Young Eagles flights
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