Florida Tech Schedules Aviation Day, Featu
res Tuskegee Airmen
MELBOURNE, FLA.—As part of its Homecoming 2008 festivities, the Florida Tech College of Aeronautics will hold Aviation Day at FIT Aviation on Saturday, Oct. 18, from 9 to 4 p.m. The event will be held on the property of Melbourne International Airport.
Aviation Day offers something for all family members with many static aviation displays, a classic car display, food vendors and a deejay. Several Tuskegee Airmen will be there to discuss their World War II exploits. Visitors will also see two PT17 World War I trainers; a GyroCraft gyroplane; an RV16 two-seat, home-built, single-engine plane; various helicopters; an L39 Albatross; and a Beechcraft single-engine turboprop vintage Air Force training aircraft.
Missionary Flights International will display a DC3 fixed-wing, propeller-driven aircraft; an Air Force recruiting vehicle will bring a Raptor fighter jet; Piper Aircraft Inc. will be on hand to display two new Florida Tech planes with glass cockpits; and the Civil Air Patrol will exhibit two aircraft.
The Classic Reflections Car Club of South Brevard County will turn out with at least a dozen classic cars from the 1930s to the 1960s.
For more information contact FIT Aviation at (321) 674-6523.
NSS will be out at FIT Aviation day with the Brevard Astronomical Society! Join us as we distribute magazines and discuss the future of space exploration with FIT alumni.