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Flying the soldier: (AIRCRAFT OWNERS AND PILOTS ASS'N)

June 23, 2009

Ben, 22, an Afghanistan combat veteran, won a Bronze Star and Purple Heart there in 2007 after losing his right leg in an ambush. He's in the process of moving from the U.S. Army's Walter Reed Hospital in Washington, D.C., to Orlando where he'll become a full-time student at the University of Central Florida in the fall. But on this warm June night, he needed to return to Walter Reed for some additional medical treatment-and that's where the Let's Go Flying SR22 came in. [click here to view] (http://www.aopa.org/aircraft/articles/2009/090622sgtben.html?WT.adv=adv1)

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