What if you had the chance to be a hero for a child's dream of flying, inspiring another soul towards daring to fly- would you do it?

If the answer is yes, you can do so by helping me put your decommissioned, non-airworthy aircraft to good use. We are establishing a chain of general aviation museums in China to provide children and all those interested the opportunity to sit in your cockpit while watching a video that shows how much one can enjoy flying and that conveys the sense of excitement you have experienced in it all these years. If you choose to help, your name will be remembered by thousands of Chinese children and young people who will admire your generosity and faith.

Our goal is to retrofit an old, decommissioned, non-functioning, and non-airworthy aircraft that is not missing any major parts (e.g. aircraft that parked at airport for years without operation) for display in our museum. We will remove the wings, discharge the oil and fuel, discard the battery, and ship it to China in a container for reassembly and a new paint job.

The aircraft will be named after you to show our appreciation for your generosity (yes, your name on a big shining plate both on the aircraft and on the display ground). We will also need your help in recording a 30-mintue video with you talking about yourself and your airplane. We want you to pass your passion for flying to another young soul, a person for whom flying was out of the question until now.

We will assure you that your aircraft will be displayed for the purpose we described above. You are welcome to visit your aircraft any time should you ever come to China, and we would be more than happy to cover all of your local expenses (up to 3 days) while you are visiting (be prepared to meet some of your fans there).

The Operation Dream of Flying is a unique program designed to help China understand that general aviation is for the general public and that a bottom-up model is the only model for building this long overdue industry. Only when a significant amount of people start taking discovery flights and signing up for flight lessons can a GA airport survive with minimal operations, gradually training more pilots and instructors to operate more aircraft in China's sky. The top-down model that China is implementing right now cannot be sustained; that is why not much progress has been made toward developing GA in the last 20 years.

As someone who has spent the past 15 years promoting GA in China and watching time go by without great satisfaction, I hope that you can share this vision of the future of Chinese GA with me. Your support can help inspire a generation of young people to take their first discovery flight and finally connect with China's sky. Your inspiration can help open China's airspace for millions of young people who will finally be given the freedom to fly if they wanted to. Flying an airplane is not supposed to be an unattainable dream- it should be an option open to everybody.

Over the years, the Young Eagles program in the US has sent millions of children into the sky for their first discovery flights. Now, before China officially opens low altitude airspace for GA, your donated aircraft can do the next best thing for China's kids who can sit in your cockpit and build their dreams.