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Aerospace Center for Excellence

Florida’s Aerospace Center for Excellence introduces preschool program

By General Aviation News Staff · August 15, 2024 · Leave a Comment

The parent participation class is designed for children aged 3-5. Each week students and parents will explore a letter of the alphabet and coordinating aviation concept using hands-on, skill-based learning centered around play.

New playground honors Sheltair founder

By General Aviation News Staff · June 15, 2024 ·

Sheltair Aviation and the Aerospace Center for Excellence (ACE) on the SUN ‘n FUN campus celebrated the grand opening of the Jerry Holland Destination: Aviation Playground on the grounds of Lakeland Linder International Airport (KLAL) June 10, 2024.

SUN ‘n FUN celebrates 150th pilot

By General Aviation News Staff · August 20, 2022 ·

Hayden Gomez completed his private pilot checkride Aug. 13, 2022, the day of his 18th birthday.

New education director named for SUN ‘n FUN’s Aerospace Center for Excellence

By General Aviation News Staff · June 2, 2022 ·

“Kimberly is an experienced educator who loves STEM, but her contribution to ACE is so much more than that,” added ACE Executive Director Eric Crump.

New director for Aerospace Center for Excellence

By General Aviation News Staff · May 10, 2022 ·

A lifelong lover of all things aviation and aerospace, Eric Crump, who started the aerospace program at Polk State College, will take over as executive director of SUN ‘n FUN’s Aerospace Center for Excellence in June 2022.

SUN ‘n FUN unveils business incubator

By General Aviation News Staff · April 4, 2022 ·

The ELEVATE Aerospace and Logistics Business Incubator, which will be on the SUN ‘n FUN campus at Lakeland Linder International Airport, is expected to open in June 2022.

A SUN ‘n FUN success story

By Joni M. Fisher · May 9, 2021 ·

“I’m used to having a bunch of old farmers yelling at me, so an old mechanic yelling at me wasn’t too much different. I wouldn’t have traded working for him for anything.”

Teens build Cub in a week at SUN ‘n FUN

By Joni M. Fisher · April 29, 2021 ·

The teen members of the Lakeland Aero Club spent the week of the 2021 SUN ‘n FUN Aerospace Expo building a Recruit Cub, a PA-18R Cub kit from Patriot Aircraft. The teens will fly the Cub to the 2021 EAA AirVenture in Oshkosh.

Thank goodness for SUN ‘n FUN

By Jamie Beckett · April 13, 2021 ·

Although we aviation geeks think of SUN ‘n FUN as the start of the fly-in season, the first irrefutable sign of Spring, and a custom-made opportunity for us to get up, get out, and visit with thousands of others who are as intrigued by aviation as we are, it’s actually far more than that.

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