Wings Over The Rockies Air & Space Museum

Programs: Wings over the rockies air & space museum is a public museum that displays numerous aircraft and other air and space collections. The museum's primary exempt purpose is to enhance, preserve, and exhibit the heritage of military, civil, and commercial aviation and space-age involvement in the state of colorado and the rocky mountain region while educating and inspiring people of all ages about aviation and space endeavors in the past, present, and future. The collection housed by the museum includes aircraft from the earliest days of flight to the space age. An interactive education program challenges youth to explore the adventure of flight. Wings over the rockies was designated as colorado's official air and space museum by the colorado state legislature in 1996.

wings aerospace academy (waa) opened in fall of 2015 to 47 middle school students interested in aviation and aerospace. Students do their schoolwork through an online partner, and come to wings at least one day a week. Wings provides incredible hands-on experiences with everything from building radio-controlled aircraft and drones to flying in helicopters. Waa students interact with mentors across the aviation and aerospace communities on a regular basis to inspire and encourage our future engineers, astronauts, pilots, rocket scientists, mechanics and more. Waa will grow one grade each year until the first class graduates from high school in 2020.

the rc: make & take program provides museum stakeholders, young and old alike, the opportunity to experience one of the fastest growing segments of the aviation industry firsthand. Unmanned aerial vehicles (uav) are growing in popularity among hobbyists, private industry professionals and the military. The purpose of the rc: make & take program at wings over the rockies air & space museum is to provide attendees with the skills they need to enjoy rc as a hobby or further their career skills to make flight accessible for all. To-date, the rc: make and take program has served more than 150 individuals through classes such as drones 101 and aerobatic flight training. These classes serve a diverse array of clients and are all taught by wings on-site rc expert, thomas neff. As an ama certified rc flight instructor with more than 40 years of rc flight experience, students of wings' rc: make & take courses are receiving the best lessons from one of the industry's most experience professionals.