To our flying community, here are our current plans and timelines for the Fly California Program. If we did not answer a question you may have, please feel free to email us at [email protected].
What’s next for the program?
- Request from the community:
- Submit ideas for custom stamps to be made for your home airport.
- Email us the airport identifier, and if you have a line art image, to [email protected].
- NOTE: green-highlighted airports have a stamp design: Fly CA Passport Stamps Tracker
- Placing Stamps
- If you are willing to place a stamp at an airport that is not highlighted on the stamp tracker, please email us at [email protected].
- A stamp and ink pad will be dropped shipped to you to be placed at the airport.
- NOTE: If the location will need an outside box, we will work with you to send a box to be placed at the field.
- Community help get the program into the “air”:
- Review the list of airports by region
- Suggest whether an airport should be moved to another region or into the “adventure” category.
- Please include a short explanation for any suggested change and send it to [email protected].
- Stamp Placement Support:
- Contact airport managers or local clubs to ask if they will host and manage a stamp.
- Volunteer to help place stamps at locations with 24-hour access (stamps will be drop-shipped to you).
- For airports without on-site or indoor facilities, volunteers can serve as the local contact. We’ll provide a waterproof box and mounting instructions.
- Program communication
- Help establish a simple way to notify pilots when new stamps become available.
- Goal: avoid extra email lists or Facebook groups.
- Reward verification
- The final airport list is not yet set.
- No reward achievements will be available until then.
- Program Review:
- Collect community feedback after one year to refine the program and add new ideas.
- Review sustainability and future funding opportunities at that time.
Future ideas for the program
- Develop a junior passport program for kids:
- Collect 20 stamps (smaller book, unique design).
- Visit 2–4 aviation museums for stamps.
- Participate in one aviation-related educational activity (ideas welcome).
- Partner with museums:
- Help encourage visitations and expand our aviation community involvement.
- Aviation-related education:
- Include participation in a pilot education seminar/meeting for 100% completion.
- Involve youth through Jr. Eagle or similar programs.
- GEO Cache
- Possible tie-in to GEO cache (ideas welcome).
