Nanaimo teenager completes private pilot’s license through Cadet scholarship
NANAIMO — If you asked Michael Park five years ago whether or not he’d be a certified pilot before he graduated high school, he’d probably have confidently said no.
However, the 17-year-old Nanaimo resident is now cleared to take to the skies in single-engine planes after earning his wings late last month.
Park told NanaimoNewsNOW his involvement in the 205 Collishaw branch of the Royal Canadian Air Cadets over the last five years developed an interest in aviation, an area he hadn’t been exposed to before.
“I wasn’t too much into aviation when I first joined which was when I was 12. But as I went through the Cadets program…it’s sort of developed an interest in aviation in the whole five years of me staying in Cadets.”