“A full private license is basically like getting your driver’s license instead of just a learner’s permit,”
Two 17-year-olds in the United States currently hold private pilot and helicopter certificates, the FAA confirmed, but neither of them obtained their licenses so close to their 17th birthdays.
Pinksten is “the youngest to achieve both, in the shortest amount of time,” the agency told TODAY.com.
Pinksten first caught the flying bug during a job shadow for his social studies class in the fall of 2011. His mother works in the aircraft insurance business, and she put her son in contact with the owner and chief flight instructor at C-R Helicopters in Nashua, N.H. Pinksten spent about an hour and a half in a four-seater helicopter during someone else’s lesson, and he was hooked.
“I loved it,” Pinksten told TODAY.com shortly before his 16th birthday. “I knew it was something I wanted to do.”
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