Wed, Jul 09, 2003
Alan and Dale Klapmeier have
donated SR20 N205CD, to the Museum of Flight in Seattle (WA).
The aircraft will be in a permanent display and become part of
their Aviation Learning Center.
Alan and Dale Klapmeier, the founders of Cirrus Design Corp.,
donated the fully-operational SR20 personal aircraft to The
Museum of Flight on Monday, for use in its new Aviation Learning
Center (ALC).
The ALC will be an experiential learning environment for fourth-
through 12th-graders in which the thrill and challenge of personal
flight will be used to excite and educate up to 20,000 students
annually in aspects of mathematics, science and technology.
Dale Klapmeier (the tallest one in the picture), co-founder of
Cirrus, also conducted a demonstration flight over the Museum
in the SR20.
Upon landing, scores of youth attending the Museum's
Aerospace Camp Experience summer day camp swarmed the plane.
During a brief ceremony, Klapmeier presented the keys to the
Cirrus SR20 to Museum representatives.
The SR20 will be the
centerpiece of the "Hangar" section of the ALC, in which students
will conduct realistic pre-flight inspections, learn navigation and
compose flight plans. Other ALC sections include the "Learning
Laboratory" -- in which students use interactive computer stations
and hands-on activities to master basic concepts of flight -- and
the "Flight Simulator Laboratory" -- in which students "fly" the
flights they have planned in virtual-reality simulators. The ALC
itself is scheduled to be fully-operational in the spring of
2004.
205 Charlie Delta, S/N 1002, is a special
machine
Cirrus's Kate Andrews told us it's a piece of history in its own
right. "It's a little workhorse," she explained. "That's the
aircraft we did the MFD certification on -- that's the plane that
Avidyne had."
That also means it's 'as good as it gets' -- these are
lucky kids!
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