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An Israeli’s Dream Takes Flight in Portland
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lying with his uncle as a child inspired Elad Segal, an Israeli native, to learn to pilot an airplane. Three decades later, he has realized his dream of opening his own flight training school, NW Wings Aviation, in Beaverton. The school offers courses for students seeking various piloting licenses including becoming a certified flight instructor themselves.
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NW Wings Aviation, which opened in January 2021, also offers aircraft rentals, Pilot for a Day flights and a 40-minute sightseeing tour of Lake Oswego, Sauvie Island and downtown Portland at 3,000 feet. The school has four models of aircraft: a Cessna 150, 152, 172 and 206. Segal himself has been flying since he began his own training in 2014. “I decided this is what I wanted to do in my life,
