Please give Aviation Camp a chance! Aaron participated for 4 summers! This is for Somerset kids! Time is running out to be a part of a one-of-a-kind experience that will help the futures of area children to take flight. A youth aviation camp, made possible by the Aviation Museum of Kentucky, is scheduled for July 22 and 23. It won’t be able to get off the ground, however, unless as many as 30 kids sign up. Any less, and it’s a no-go. Right now, its prospects are looking a little bleak. Only eight youth have signed on board so far. If the magic number isn’t met by the first of July, the camp will have to be canceled. “From what we’re looking at, it doesn’t look like the Aviation Museum will sponsor it in Somerset,” said Roy Hinklin, a local flight enthusiast who helped bring the camp to town. So there’s one last push on to get a full roster in time. Applications are available at the J.T. Wilson Field on Airport Road off of Monticello Street, and the Somerset Community College technical school on the south campus, located across from the airfield. You can also get your youngster involved by calling Hinklin at 606-678-4995. Hinklin held a successful and very similar aviation camp here in this area for half-a-dozen years — the last in 2008 — until developing ocular cancer, rendering him unable to fly anymore. He learned about the aviation museum’s summer camp program and got in contact about bringing it here to the Lake Cumberland area. The camp is open to both boys and girls, ages 10-16. A total of 30 kids are needed to hold the two-day camp; each day, 15 campers — three at a time — will go up in a Cessna 172 airplane with a certified pilot instructor.
Posted on: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 02:56:25 +0000
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