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Learn Build Soar

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Learn Build Soar is a youth soaring foundation operating at a private grass strip northeast of Cresson, Texas. Two gliders are currently flying. Two more are being restored rib by rib in a volunteer hangar. Every seat is free to any young person who wants to learn what flight actually feels like before they ever touch a powered aircraft.

It is the oldest form of aviation, taught the original way, by people who know that soaring makes better pilots.

The Founders

Dick Keyt is a lifelong airman and the kind of builder whose hangar has a restored glider hanging from the ceiling the way other people hang pictures. Ray Lewis is the restoration lead, a patient craftsman rebuilding a vintage wood sailplane one wing rib at a time. Between them they carry more combined flight experience than most regional flight schools.

They did not come to us asking for marketing. They came asking for a site that would not get in the way.

What Aviation Legacies Built

A quiet, fast, honest WordPress site. No hype. No glossy stock photography of jets the foundation does not own. No call-to-action screaming for donations in the first three seconds. Just a clear explanation of the mission, a straightforward path for families interested in youth programs, and a volunteer signup for anyone with hangar hours to give.

Built on the same precision stack every Aviation Legacies project uses. Kinsta managed hosting. Cloudflare DNS and CDN. Kadence Pro. Rank Math. Gravity Forms. Clean code, under a second to load, designed to still look right ten years from now.

The Sponsors

Learn Build Soar is built and maintained at no cost to the foundation. Two sponsors make that possible.

Genviation is the aviation platform matching pilots, owners, airports, FBOs, and flight schools across the country. Every membership on Genviation indirectly funds work like this. That is intentional.

ChrisEller.com is the WordPress architect behind the build. Thirty thousand hours of WordPress execution. Thirty-five years on the open web. One builder who still answers his own email.

Why This Matters

Aviation has a pipeline problem. Every active pilot today learned from someone who took the time to teach them. That chain breaks the moment the teachers stop teaching and the students stop showing up to grass strips on Saturday mornings.

Youth soaring does not fix the whole pipeline. It fixes the part that matters most. The first flight. The one where a kid who has never been off the ground realizes the sky is a real place, not a picture, and that people like them are allowed to go there.

Visit the Site

LearnBuildSoar.com is live. If you are a pilot, an owner, a builder, or a family who wants to know more, the site answers most of the questions before the first phone call.

If you want to do what Genviation and ChrisEller did — quietly sponsor a project that matters — get in touch. Aviation Legacies accepts a small number of sponsored projects each year. Learn Build Soar was the first. It will not be the last.