air cadets

Junior flight trainees

Air cadets are young people, typically teenagers, who participate in youth aviation organizations sponsored by military air forces.

Programs like the UK's Air Training Corps or the US Civil Air Patrol offer flight training, leadership development, and military-style discipline without requiring future military service.

She joined the air cadets at fourteen and earned her pilot's license by sixteen.

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