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For Immediate Release

Turn Tax-Day Blues into Aviation Green During
Lindbergh Foundation Day at Sun ‘n Fun

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. (April 9, 2010) — Put away your tax-day blues and go “green” by joining the Lindbergh Foundation for the first-ever Lindbergh Foundation Day, on April 15, at Sun ‘n Fun.

The Lindbergh Foundation’s Aviation Green Investment Program^TM, was developed for the aviation community to actively participate in aviation-related environmental issues and other important conservation and environmental projects. As part of this initiative the Lindbergh Foundation has planned a full day of speakers and presentations on a variety of aviation-environmental issues.

The schedule of events is as follows:

Time	Event	Speaker	Location
9 a.m.	Lindbergh Foundation Day Opening Review	Larry Williams	Pavilion
9:15 a.m.	LEAP Announcement	Erik Lindbergh	Pavilion
10 a.m.	Hybrid Aircraft	George Bye	Green Space
10:30 a.m.	Swift Fuel	Jon Ziulkowski	Green Space
11 a.m.	Global Approach to Climate Change How the Aviation Industry is Tackling the Problem	Pete Bunce	Pavilion
Noon	Forum on Lindbergh Grant Recipients and the Application Process - Success Stories	Lindbergh Grant Recipients	Green Space
12:30 p.m.	G100UL	George Braly	Green Space
1 p.m.	Shark Skin, Butterfly Scales & Aerospace Engineering	Dr. Amy Lang	Forum Tent 1
1:30 p.m.	"Alternative Fuel Strategies"	Robert Hackman	Forum Tent 1

“Last fall, the Lindbergh Foundation developed a new mission that would focus more specifically on aviation-environmental issues in our quest to become the aviation community’s resource for the exchange of information on this important subject,” said Foundation Chairman, President and CEO Larry Williams. “The addition of Lindbergh Foundation Day at Sun ‘n Fun is a wonderful opportunity for us to spread the word and open the dialog with the aviation community about the Lindbergh Foundation’s support and involvement in aviation-environmental issues. We thank Sun ‘n Fun for their support of our efforts.”

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About The Lindbergh Foundation

The Lindbergh Foundation is a public 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, based in Anoka, Minnesota, which focuses on technological breakthroughs to address significant aviation-environmental issues. The Lindbergh Foundation also values individual initiative and accomplishments. Its programs are devoted to supporting, honoring, and educating individuals, through three major programs: the annual Lindbergh Award, presented to individuals for significant contributions toward balancing nature and scientific innovation in their work; the Lindbergh Grants program, which provides grants in amounts up to $10,580 (the cost of building the Spirit of St. Louis in 1927) for research or education projects that will make important contributions to the technology/environment balance; and a variety of educational events and publications centered on the balance theme.

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Lindbergh Award Event

1/19/12 - Lindbergh Foundation Announces Lindbergh Awardees

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10/30/12 - Lindbergh Foundation Announces AGA Awareness Campaign

10/30/12 - Lindbergh Foundation Announces Aviation Partners Boeing as Corporate Awardee

4/20/12 - BRS Aerospace Joins Aviation Green Alliance

4/20/12 - Lindbergh Prize for Innovation Given to e-volo

BRS Aerospace Joins Aviation Green Alliance

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3/28/12 - Sikorsky Joins Aviation Green Alliance

3/27/12 - Lindbergh Foundation Celebrates 35th Anniversary with Astronauts Armstrong, Lovell & Cernan
2/15/12 - FedEx Corporation Joins Aviation Green Alliance

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09/26/07 - Linden Blue Joins Foundation Board; "Lindbergh Partners" Program and Other New Board members Announced; Ed Bolen Recognized for NBAA Chairities Gift

EAA Announcements
07/25/07 - Lindbergh-Lycoming Grant Award to Thomas Ehresman
07/25/07 - Lindbergh-Lycoming Grant Partnership Set for a Third Year
07/25/07 - First Lindbergh-Lycoming Grant Recipient Reports Significant Progress
07/25/07 - Lindbergh-Lycoming Grant Applications Accepted Until Nov. 1

Lindbergh Award Event
02/13/07 - Lindbergh Foundation to Honor Fay, Cernan and Susanka
04/17/07 - Lindbergh Award Celebration Honors Dr. Fay, Cernan and Susanka; Google to Receive Corporate Award for Balance; Silent Auction and Book Signing Also Planned
06/08/07 - Four Lindbergh Awardees Reflect on Living Life on Earth

2006

Lindbergh Award Event
1/31/06 - Foundation Presents Lindbergh Award to Peter Diamandis and Will Steger
5/16/06 - Patagonia, Inc. Receives First-Ever Corporate Award for Balance
6/14/06 - Aviation and the Environment Find Common Ground

Grants Program

7/28/06 - Lindbergh-Lycoming Grant Established

2005

Minnesota Events
6/9/05 - Burt Rutan and Other Aviation Legends Inspire Crowd
2/14/05 - Lindbergh Foundation to Host Two Events in Minnesota

News Release - Lindbergh Foundation Donates Airplane to Kenya Wildlife Service

2004

General
11/3/04 - Historic Space Flight Unites Past and Present

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Foundation Background

The Lindbergh Foundation is a public non-profit 501(c)(3) organization, based in Minnesota, which supports great innovations that foster the environment to keep the planet in balance.

The Lindbergh Foundation accomplishes its mission through three major programs:

The Lindbergh Award ~ Annually, the Foundation presents its honorary Lindbergh Award for individuals who have made significant contributions toward the balance between technology and the environment, in their work.
Lindbergh Grants ~ in amounts up to $10,580 (the cost of building the Spirit of St. Louis in 1927), are given to individuals whose proposed research or education projects will make important contributions to the technology/environment balance;
Educational Programs and Publications ~ centered on the balance theme.

One of the Lindbergh Foundation’s core values is to honor individual initiative and accomplishment in researchers, scientists, and explorers. In doing so, the Lindberghs, who were each outstanding individual contributors to society – through aviation, writing, and environmental conservation, are also honored. Unquestionably, Charles Lindbergh is best known for his historic New York-to-Paris flight in the Spirit of St. Louis. It is much less known that the Lindberghs held a unique perspective on the Earth stemming from Charles’ boyhood growing up on the banks of the Mississippi River outside Little Falls, Minn., his barnstorming days in the early 1920s, and the survey flights around the world he and Anne pioneered in the 1930s. Over the years, the Lindberghs witnessed enormous changes in the land, sky and water in the name of progress. Their concern for the environment became the basis upon which the Foundation was established.

Friends of the Lindberghs at The Explorers Club in New York City established the organization in 1977 (the 50th anniversary year of Charles Lindbergh’s historic New York-to-Paris flight). General James H. Doolittle and Astronaut Neil Armstrong led the national fund raising campaign for the fledgling organization.