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Veterans and volunteers urge expansion of youth aviation, drone training at Detroit City Airport
Summary
During the Detroit City Council public-comment period, veterans and airport tenants described existing aviation training and announced drone classes and a Tuskegee Airmen kiosk funded by tenants; speakers also raised stormwater drainage and infrastructure concerns at the airport.
Veterans and volunteers urged Detroit leaders during the council’s public-comment period to support youth aviation pathways at Detroit City Airport, describing ongoing Civil Air Patrol work, upcoming drone-training classes and a privately funded Tuskegee Airmen kiosk on airport grounds.
The airport-based groups described hands-on programs they say give young people experience that can lead to military and civilian aviation careers. Tony Stevenson, a member of the Davis Aerospace Technical Advisory Group, a captain in the Civil Air Patrol and president of the Detroit chapter of the Tuskegee Airmen, said, "That gives young people from the age of 13 to actually as old as I am to work, in conjunction and get aviation experience that can be turned around and used for the military."
Nut graf: Speakers said the airport serves as a long-running community asset…
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