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Our mission at Kittyhawk Academy is to educate future generations in history, aviation maintenance, teamwork, skill trades and good values all through restoring our B-25 Sandbar Mitchell. We accomplish this by engaging persons as young as 14 years old in learning aerospace and industrial skills through a hands-on mentorship program that includes workshop skills, toolmanship, mechanical comprehension and CAD/CAM/CNC processing. Our program is offered at no cost to the students. This is made possible through grants from private foundations, corporate sponsorship, individual contributions and merchandise sales.
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Mr. Beckwith works with 14-year old students, Leland and Colton, on how to use the English wheel.
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Zelie is working on a lab exercise. She is one of ten students that participate in our four-week youth CAD design class that we offer twice per year.
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Students Bryant, Anthony and Logan work on removing the crazed windows from the rear gunner canopy.
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Katelyn poses with the work she just completed on the upper canopy assembly. After getting involved with the restoration of Sandbar Mitchell she has decided to pursue a career in Aviation Maintenance.
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Student Aaron operating our Tormach CNC making parts for the B-25.
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Sarah operating our CNC router, cutting out the molds for the upper section ribs of the bomb bay fuselage.
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Colton and Katelyn work on removing parts from a donated B-25 engine mount.
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Anthony drilling out rivets in the remaining sections of Sandbar Mitchells forward fuselage.
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Logan working on removing the B-25s oil tank sump.
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The students the drilled apart Sandbar Mitchells center section.
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Aiden removing Clecos which are holding the stringers in place on the B-25 center section.
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Tyler created the Warbirds of Glory Logo in CAD and using the CNC router created this decorative signage for the hangar.
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Bryant learing about radial engines on our static R-2800 display engine.
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Sean sorting through the B-25 Hydraulic lines.
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Anthony and his brother Bryant, proudly posing with the parts they made for the B-25 Miss Mitchell.
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Anthony and Logan utilizing necessary teamwork skills work together to remove the main control quadrant out of the Mitchells cockpit.
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Sean working on the bomb bay section off of the Russian Mitchell, by installing Clecos.
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Logan and Sarah inventorying B-25 parts that were donated to the museum.
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Anthony, working side by side with his brother Bryant, on removing the rudder pedals from the Mitchells cockpit.
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Patrick and some of the student volunteers at Oshkosh 2014 with Lt. Col. Richard Cole. Mr. Cole was the co-pilot of Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle B-25 during the Doolittle Raid. It was an honor for the students to be able to have dinner with him that night.