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WELCOME TO SILVER WINGS! Tuck your wing right in here where we can tell you about Silver Wings and how you can enjoy a closer relationship with flying by becoming a member of this fine organization. If you soloed 25 years go in a powered aircraft, you are eligible to join Silver Wings. You don't need any great accumulation of flying hours and you don't need to be anything other than what you are. Just plain "you" is fine with us!
We have no political agenda and are open to every single person regardless of race, creed , color, or national origin.
Silver Wings Fraternity is an organization of men and women pilots who live worldwide. We were incorporated in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in 1958 with the following purposes central to this organization:
  1. To unite pilots who soloed powered aircraft at least 25 years ago
  2. To renew and affirm friendships and to recognize accomplishments in all aspects of flight
  3. To award scholarships to young people seeking experiences and careers in aviation
  4. To create and foster a spirit of camaraderie among pilots through recognition and social programs
Silver Wings has over 2,000 active members throughout the world - over half belong to active chapters in 17 cities in the United States.
Membership covers the spectrum from active fliers to those who retired from aviation years ago. All phases of aviation are represented: airlines, military aviation, general aviation. Our membership includes pilots who are Aviation Hall of Fame laureates, women members of the famous Ninety-Nines and those who were members of the WASP during World War II.
You will enjoy being a Silver Wings member…meeting old friends, making new friends - all speaking the same language of flight and experiencing the great adventure of flight itself.
Silver Wings recently concluded a two-year program to place aviation-related books and materials in 150 libraries in small towns. We currently provide annual aviation scholarships to selected boys in the Boy Scouts of America and girls in the Girl Scouts of the USA.
Silver Wings championed the naming of the new Flight Terminal at Denver International Airport the "Captain Elrey B. Jeppsen Flight Terminal." Elrey Jeppsen was a long-time Silver Wings member and aviation pioneer. We also sponsored the creation of an extensive Jeppsen exhibit at Boeing Field Museum of Flight in Seattle, Washington and we arranged for the museum to receive and display Captain "Jepp's" collection of professional memorabilia.
In a salute to early airmail pilots, "Those daring young men in their flying machines," Silver Wings stages commemorative flights every ten years that cover all segments of early airmail flight routes in the continental United States, coast-to-coast. Silver Wings members fly their own aircraft on connecting segments eastbound and west-bound carrying specifically stamped letters and messages of greeting between U.S. Postmasters.
Silver Wings makes special efforts to recognize the aviation accomplishments of all pilots, past and present. Come join us and experience great fellowship; experience the feeling of belonging to a primary flight organization where you can share companionship with fellow pilots and participate in what flying is all about. Be there when the hangar door opens! Come fly with us!

 

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