When it comes to gift-giving this Valentine's Day, context is everything.

For special person in your life, someone who has always wanted to fly, there is no better gift than a flight in a small plane. Intimately in touch with the sky around them, they will never forget the amazing feeling of being above the clouds, watching the sun glint off the top of a cloud bank, turning to follow the line of the coast, or to see a familiar river from the sky.

It's easy to get the most amazing gift that you will ever give (and remember, it is perfectly OK to give yourself a little gift this Valentine's Day). In Connecticut, the Meriden and New Haven Aviation Centers offer gift certificates good for an hour of flying time. You can use the gift certificate at any time that is convenient, no time limit! They are convenient to the whole state (and beyond), and their instructors get rave reviews! The hour of time can also be applied to actually getting a private pilot's license, they’ll have time before the flight with the instructor for some real pre-flight planning and inspections and afterwards for a debrief, and a chance for them to get any questions they might have answered!!
We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give. - Sir Winston Churchill

Flying is more than a sport and more than a job; flying is pure passion and desire, which fill a lifetime.

Celebrate a Birthday (maybe yours?), The Holidays, an Anniversary, Summertime, Wedding, Labor Day, Father's Day, Mother's Day, Cinco de Mayo, Juneteenth, even the Equinox. Gift giving is its own reward, but imagine how unbelievably happy you can make someone when you give them the most challenging and rewarding activities they will ever accomplish! Gifts can be a way to celebrate life, love, and friendship.

Everybody has that one person in their life who stymies every gift-giving effort, either by buying whatever they need or by claiming they don’t want anything. This is the gift for everyone especially those who are hard to please. The added bonus is that giving the perfect gift will make both you and the receiver feel better.

Start with an inspection of the plane
Looking out over the wing
Oh, the sights you'll see
The flight can even be applied to the hours you need for your license
What a view
Snazzy planes!

This is what it is all about!

A gift certificate for an intro flight is a chance to hop aboard and take a sight-seeing tour you'll never forget!

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The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value. Charles Dudley Warner

Leonardo da Vinci said, 'Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return'. The question of how he knew notwithstanding, he was right. Flying is the ultimate thrill, and that's why it is the ultimate gift.

If you have a special someone who looks up every time a plane passes over, then the gift of flight is the perfect gift! and since no one has ever become poor by giving, why not look at a gift certificate for an hour's flying time from the Meriden Aviation Center for Valentine's Day!

"There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward." – Khalil Gibran
Spending one of the best hours of your life in a plane, soaring above the clouds, let's admit, often, it’s the little things - something small that the receiver particularly wants but hasn’t ever been given before, something they didn’t realize they even needed, or something they didn’t expect - that make the biggest difference. A gift’s value isn’t determined by its size or expense; the true value and joy of a gift is how it makes the recipient feel cared for. Why not consider a gift certificate from the New Haven Aviation Center this Valentine's Day

What are some of the most thoughtful or surprising gifts you have been given by others? Can you think of a time when a gift you gave to someone else filled you with the joy of giving?
Kindness in words creates confidence.
Kindness in thinking creates profoundness.
Kindness in giving creates love.
The gift of flight is the gift that they have always wanted!
"I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things."
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Gifting made easy!

We absolutely believe that you should be able to give someone wings. Let us help get them flying, today!