Howland 17-year-old pursuing pilot’s license

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Flying Solo

VIENNA — Less than two years after becoming legal to drive on the roads, 17-year-old Dan Miller, of Warren, is pursuing another license — this time for the sky.

Miller, who will be a senior at Howland High School this fall, is a rarity among pilots in the area and across the country. According to the Federal Aviation Administration, certified teenage pilots make up about 2 percent of all certified pilots, a number that has held steady over the last 10 years.

He is the only teenage pilot taking aviation lessons at Western Reserve Flight School at the Youngstown-Warren Regional Airport in Vienna, but he doesn’t mind.

He was looking for something different to do this summer besides playing soccer and working part-time at Dairy Queen in Howland.

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