Press Information

For Press Inquiries please contact:

Katrina Bradshaw
Executive Director

Phone: 804/843-3321
Email: kbradshaw@buildaplane.org

Press Releases

BuildAPlane Announces Teachers’ Day at AirVenture
(May 9, 2010)
Build A Plane LaunchesAeroScholars Online High School Courses
(April 15, 2010)
Oshkosh in Review for Build A Plane: Harrison Ford Visit, Teachers' Day Success and LOOK UP Announcement
(September 23, 2009)
Build A Plane Donates Avemco Insurance Salvage Plane to Vero Beach School
(April 23, 2009)
Teacher's Day 2009 (March 12, 2009)
Build A Plane Kids Will Construct Glasair Sportsman in 'Two Weeks to Taxi' Program!
(July 29, 2008)
Build A Plane Teams with Snap-on Tools
(July 29, 2008)
Build A Plane and Cessna Aircraft Guide U.S. Dept of Energy's Real World Design Challenge
(July 29, 2008)
GAMA Hosts Build A Plane Project at AirVenture!
(July 29, 2008)
Build A Plane Expands into Remote Alaskan Villages
(April 18, 2007)
Build A Plane's Most Unusual Project: Aba, Nigeria!
(April 18, 2007)

Kevin Lien (left) and Brian White work on Build A Plane's flagship aircraft, a Glasair Sportsman 2+2.

Cody Freeman learning to rivet on Build A Plane's Glasair Sportsman.

Kids remove clekos to begin riveting the wing.

Students take a seat in a recently restored Cessna.

Ejimofor Kasarachi, a high school student in Nigeria, stands in front of a Build A Plane project in Africa.

Students prepare an elevator at Sporty's in Batavia, OH.

Kevin Lien works on the Build A Plane Sportsman, built at Glasair's Two Weeks to Taxi program.

Build A Plane's flagship aircraft over downtown Los Angeles.

Build A Plane's Sportsman crosses the Pacific Ocean shoreline at Malibu, CA.

Kids learn how to replace the fabric on the tail feathers.

Build A Plane students takes a break for an airplane ride in a Pitts.

Harrison Ford stops by the Build A Plane booth at Oshkosh to chat with students from Frankfort, Kentucky.

Eskimo kids from Hooper Bay, Alaska build a Thorp T-211.

Fuselage components for the Hooper Bay project are loaded onto a sled to be moved from the airport to the school.

Kids learn a number of skills in building a real airplane.

(left to right) Kevin Lein, Liz Kaiser and Cody Freeman inspect the instrument panel before it is installed in Build A Plane's Sportsman.

Liz Kaiser tests avionics in the Build A Plane aircraft.

(left to right) Kevin Lein, Cody Freeman, Brian White and Liz Kaiser stand next to the completed Build A Plane aircraft.