Barrington High School Aviation Club member Ella Braun prepares to take off in a Cessna 172 April 21, 2022 at DuPage Airport in West Chicago. (Mike Mantucca / Pioneer Press)
Members of the Aviation Club at Barrington High School were flying high, wrapping the student group’s inaugural year with flights over Barrington and parts of Lake County in a Cessna airplane.
Officials at Barrington School District 220, which the high school is part of, said in a news release that the school’s Aviation Club, which started this school year, partnered with the Illinois Aviation Academy at DuPage Airport in West Chicago to take the April 21 flights.
The goal, in part, was to “provide the next steps of flight and ground training to the prospective aviators,” the release states.
Participating students gathered at the airport, where they took off that Thursday afternoon for the introductory experience in a Cessna 172 aircraft with a flight instructor.
According to the release, Frank Kerous, an SD220 parent and captain for Southwest Airlines, pitched school administrators the idea for starting the club. He billed it as an opportunity for students to “take advantage of the current global pilot shortage,” the release states.
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