Kevin Brooker from FLYING Magazine Visits 

Written By Beth White

It’s not everyday a writer from a top aviation magazine flies in with his yellow Taylor Craft, Woodstock, to check out our aviation program and meet our Modern Rosies. Kevin Brooker’s visit to Habitat for Aviation was memorable and he was clearly impressed by the talent and determination of our young women involved in our program. They share personal stories of how they came to find Habitat for Aviation, why they love working with their hands, what their long-term plans are in aviation, and their interests in learning to fly. He even joined the Zoom call we had with Sheryl Oxley who is only one of three FAA aviation mechanic examiners in the country. We look forward to his article.

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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