{"id":26284,"date":"2023-07-31T16:06:20","date_gmt":"2023-07-31T16:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saj.pachecostudios.com?p=26284"},"modified":"2023-07-31T16:08:51","modified_gmt":"2023-07-31T16:08:51","slug":"tom-meadows-recognized-with-2023-phillips-66-aviations-eaa-young-eagles-leadership-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/state-news\/california\/tom-meadows-recognized-with-2023-phillips-66-aviations-eaa-young-eagles-leadership-award\/%20","title":{"rendered":"Tom Meadows Recognized with 2023 Phillips 66\u00ae Aviation\u2019s EAA Young Eagles Leadership Award"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Photo above – Left to right are, Meghan du Plessis, Director, Phillips 66 Aviation Brand Marketing; Tom Meadows, 2023 Phillips 66 Leadership Award Winner; David Leiting, EAA; Sean D. Tucker, EEA Young Eagles.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Phillips 66\u00ae Aviation has announced that the 2023 Phillips\n66 Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) Young Eagles Leadership Award winner\nis Tom Meadows, EAA member of Chapter 1073 in Truckee, CA. This award\u2014given\nevery year during EAA\u2019s annual fly-in convention, AirVenture \u2014 recognizes\nexceptional Young Eagles volunteers that have continually supported the future\nof aviation by exceeding expectations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tom Meadows<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI have so many stories of flying youngsters through the\nskies and seeing their faces light up with excitement and joy,\u201d Meadows said.\n\u201cFrom allowing youth to sit in the pilot\u2019s seat to helping them taxi to the\nrunway, flying with these kids is always an adventure.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A retired Naval Air Crewman, Tom was the Young Eagles\nCoordinator for EAA Chapter 1073 for nearly five years. During those years, his\nEAA chapter held rallies in the Truckee region at different airports in smaller\ncommunities without chapters, to introduce their youth to aviation by giving\nthem free airplane rides.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meadows has flown to more distant cities to help their\nchapters hold rallies. His wife, Lynn, a private pilot, gets to fly to and from\nthe rallies, and serves as a ground volunteer while he flies kids. \u201cIt is\nimportant to us that we make aviation instruction as accessible to young people\nas possible, so flying from airport to airport is exciting for us.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tom and Lynn both received their pilot licenses in 1978,\nhowever Tom\u2019s passion was ignited at a young age, as he would sometimes\naccompany his father to work at the Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton,\nOhio. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMy dad would drop me off at the Air Force Museum on the\nbase, and no matter how many times I walked through that museum I never grew\ntired of it,\u201d Tom said. \u201cLater in life, my dad told me that when I was two\nyears old, he had put me on his lap and gave me my first airplane ride.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tom holds several other licenses including his Instrument,\nCommercial, CFI and MEL certificates. While he stepped down as a Young Eagle\ncoordinator in 2020, Tom and Lynn still serve as ground and flight volunteers\nat rallies near and far.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe have flown our Cessna 172 Sky Hawk to Ohio five times to\nattend my high school reunions, and we stop to visit friends and family\nmembers. If any of our hosts have age-eligible kids, I take them flying as\nYoung Eagles,\u201d Tom said. \u201cWe are always looking for new families to share our\nspirit of aviation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall, Tom plans to fly his 2,000th Young Eagle\nmission. By then he will have donated 1,500 flight hours of their Cessna 172,\nalong with countless hours of volunteering on the ground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI am always mining for more Young Eagles. You never know\nwhen you are going to find a gem,\u201d Tom said. \u201cThe future of aviation is in the\nhands of these kids, and I am proud to be a part of their journey.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To learn more about the EAA Young Eagles program, visit eaa.org<\/a>.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

To learn more about how Phillips 66 supports the Young Eagles program, visit Phillips66Aviation.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Photo above – Left to right are, Meghan du Plessis, Director, Phillips 66 Aviation Brand Marketing; Tom Meadows, 2023 Phillips 66 Leadership Award Winner; David Leiting, EAA; Sean D. Tucker, EEA Young Eagles. Phillips 66\u00ae Aviation has announced that the 2023 Phillips 66 Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) Young Eagles Leadership Award winner is Tom Meadows, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":26285,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,115],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-california","category-national-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Tom-Meadows.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26284"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26289,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26284\/revisions\/26289"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}