Frank Luke Chapter’s 2009 Teacher of the Year Joanne Henning took to the skies on November 23 with the 313th Civil Air Patrol Squadron at Phoenix Goodyear Airport. Henning plans to share her experience with her fourth-grade students, who earlier this year, were visited by a pilot from Luke AFB. The pilot visit was held in conjunction with the students’ project studying robotics and the mechanics of flight. In addition to being the first light-plane flight for Henning, a teacher at Glendale American Elementary School in Glendale, Arizona, the one-hour flight marked other “firsts.” This flight was the first mission for the 313th’s new aircraft, a Cessna 182T flown from the factory by Lt Col Rick Amundsen. Amundsen, an AFA member, is the squadron’s certified flight instructor and Henning’s pilot. It was also the unit’s first flight for a teacher in the Arizona Wing’s “Fly A Teacher” Aerospace Education Program. Eight more teachers are scheduled elsewhere around the state.