First OAA Scholarship Recipient Learning to Fly the “Navy Way”

These are the latest pictures from Kevin Williams, first recipient of our scholarship. Kevin was 15 when he started his training. He soloed on News Year’s Day 2010 with a crowd of well wishers as witnesses. (Jerry Kern was there.) After graduation from Oceanside High Kevin was accepted into the US Naval Academy where he studied Systems Engineering. He was a competing member of the USNA flight team. A few days after his graduation Kevin married his high school “sweetheart”, Hunter Dawn, in a ceremony held in a hangar at Oceanside Airport. Afterward Kevin reported to the USNavy flight school as a to start learning how to fly the “Navy Way”! The pictures are from Kevin’s recent experiences in flight school and flying the 1100 hp Beechcraft T-6B “Texan II”.