04/23/2026
It was great to see the Spirit of Lakeland in the Zenith Aircraft booth last week! The aircraft has sold and will be flying to its new home in the near future. I wish the new owner many years of happy flying ahead, and we hope to see it down the road. Thank you to everyone who has supported this project. It crushed me to see this program get killed, but its educational value was incredible to those who helped build it!
If this airplane project didn’t happen, several students most likely didn’t sign up to be A&P mechanics or aerospace engineers. I’m proud to say that APEX Aerospace has picked up where this project finished! Many more aircraft builds will happen, and we are just getting started!
If you or someone you think might be interested in looking to add an aircraft build to your high school aerospace program, please email [email protected] for more information.
