The Air Up There FAA Podcast Recording

Written By Beth White

Women Build Planes Team members record our first Air Up There podcast episode with the FAA

We had the incredible opportunity to record a podcast episode with the FAA's widely popular podcast, The Air Up There, which boasts an audience of 2 million followers. Ashwil, Abby, Zoë, Aubrianna, and Beth from our all-female Women Build Planes team spent several hours with Terria, Lucy, DaiJah, and Adam from the FAA, who deeply listened as each of us shared our unique journeys into aviation, from flying planes to hands-on airplane building, providing insights into how we found our pathways into the field.

We're thrilled to see how the FAA's podcast team will weave all our stories together into an engaging and inspiring episode. With the stories from our team and the thoughtful approach of the podcast team, we excited to hear the ways in which the episode inspires others. We can’t wait for it to air sometime in September 2024, and we’re excited to share our passion for aviation with such a large and enthusiastic audience.

Beth White

Education Possibilitarian, Artist, Writer, Doula, Mentor, Aviatrix, Breast Cancer Survivor, Pilot-in-Command at Habitat for Aviation


In the spring of 2022, Beth White emerged from a 10-month battle with breast cancer with an idea: to create an apprenticeship program at Franklin County State Airport where youth work alongside adult mentors servicing conventional and electric aircraft. A pilot and airplane mechanic apprentice herself, and with family roots in the trades, Habitat for Aviation provides an taxilane for world learning opportunities for youth and adults who love to work with their hands to enter the FAA’s apprenticeship certification track. Each day she puts systems in place that make real John Dewey’s philosophy that we “learn best what we live” – a deep throughline from her time at Antioch University New England and as Regional Director for Big Picture Learning. Each learning experience is grounded in relationships, relevance, and practice. In October, 2023, Habitat for Aviation launched its Women Build Planes program, where an all-female team of Modern Day Rosies is building an airplane at Franklin County Airport, in northwestern Vermont, to show folks everywhere that despite the fact that only 2.6% of airplane mechanics are female, women BUILD, FLY, and FIX airplanes.

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