Business View Magazine | Volume 8, Issue 10

226 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 8, ISSUE 10 playground near the restaurant so that parents could come and eat lunch, maybe visit with their friends, while knowing their kids were safe in the playground. Well, those kids become interested in aviation, decide to fly one day, and then a lot of them grow up to become pilots. Headquartered here is the WASP program, (Williamsburg Aviation Scholarship Program) and with that, we go into the High Schools and recruit qualified kids that want to get their private pilot license and pursue a career in aviation. We educate them and pay for flight school at the Williamsburg Flight Center which comes in at around $11,000 invested in each kid. The current class has nine students from across the region here. They go on to fly for the military, or commercial, or corporate aviation. I bet we have started the careers of almost every kind of pilot here at the airport and I feel very honored