Port Townsend Aero Museum Intern Jacob Kirschbaum

This year’s intern was Jacob Kirschbuam, an exceptional young man who left the Aero Museum two years ago to start college. This fall Jake will be a senior at the University of North Dakota where he is enrolled in their aviation program and well along his way to becoming an Airline Transport Pilot. Jake returned to the Aero Museum this summer with his FAA Commercial and Certified Flight Instructor ratings! Not only was he able to help us in the restoration shop on complicated restoration and repair work, using the skills he learned in the years spent volunteering while still in high school, he was also able to do flight instruction with the kids in our youth flight program. To think, only a few short years ago it was Jake in the student pilot seat, with museum flight instructor, Carl Nepute instructing, and now it’s Jake doing the instruction!

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