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Children And Their Families Can Receive Passport To Flight

Dayton, Ohio
March 28, 2003

A diverse number of organizations are joining forces to give children and families a unique window on this year's Centennial of Flight Celebration.

Passport to Flight, an exciting new program for children and their families, will kick off at Carillon Historical Park on April 6 with an event from noon to 4 p.m. Sixteen sites with ties to aviation and space or with flight-related exhibits have joined the American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics to create the Passport to Flight Program.

The participating sites will have exhibits and activities for the families, with formal opening remarks taking place and door prizes to be awarded at 2 p.m.

Admission to the Passport to Flight Kick-off is free and open to the public. Those participants wishing to tour Carillon Historical Park that day may purchase a discounted admission pass for 50 percent off the regular admission prices.

The Passport to Flight Program is designed to promote young people's interest in aviation and space sciences as they visit the various sites.

Officials have developed a commemorative passport book and a unique colorful sticker, with copies of both to be available at each site for children in grades K-8. The stickers are to be placed in children's passports to confirm that they have visited the site.

Children who visit at least nine of the 16 sites will be eligible to return a page from the passport to the local American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Section where it will be entered into a prize drawing. Every participant returning the passport page showing they visited 9 of the 16 sites will receive a commemorative Passport to Flight bag tag (for their school book bag or sports bag), a certificate of completion and will be entered into a grand prize drawing.

Participating venues are: Aullwood Audubon Center and Farm, Boonshoft Museum of Discovery, Carillon Historical Park, Cincinnati Museum Center Dayton Art Institute Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park, Greene and Montgomery County Public Libraries, National Aviation Hall of Fame, Neil Armstrong Museum, Paul Laurence Dunbar House, United States Air Force Museum, WACO Historical Society, Wright B Flyer, Wright State University Special Collections and Archives.

The Passport to Flight program is supported by grants from the AIAA as well as support from the Air Force Association; Universal Technology Corporation; Skyward, Ltd.; and the National Park Service.

For further information;

Contact:

Dan Cyphers
AIAA
937-252-2710, ext.102

James Gord
AIAA
937-255-7431

Gary Dale
AIAA
937-904-8602.



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