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Build a Flight Log

Ready to earn your aviation wings? Every pilot keeps their own flight log and now you can do the same. Pilots keep track of their flights and earn additional endorsements for specialized training. Build your own NASA flight log and earn your own endorsements by exploring hands-on activities, watching engaging videos, and joining us for virtual and in-person events. Collect your endorsement stamps just like collecting passport stamps!

What is a Flight Log? about Build a Flight Log

AERONAUTICS STAKEHOLDER AND WORKFORCE DEV LEAD

April Lanotte

STEM ENGAGEMENT EMBED TO AERONAUTICS

Dave Berger

How to Build a Digital Flight Log

A Personal Logbook for the NASA Flight Log Experience

Bring your flights to life with this lively, interactive template. Use it in PowerPoint, Google Slides, Keynote, or any other presentation software to log every flight you–or your name–takes. Enter flight information, add pictures, create a journal of your experiences, and download and save earned endorsement stamps to your flight log. Add or delete pages as needed and make your flight log uniquely you! 

Aerial view of a desk showing the Flight Log Passport with glasses, a plant, computer, cup of coffee and a notebook.

Handcraft your own Flight Log

Handcraft your own Flight Log Book! These step-by-step instructions will guide you from start to finish. There are photos to also help. Inside are also printables you can use within your travel book, a passport page, a page to log in your travels and maps to mark the locations you have visited.

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Activities

Flight Log Activities

List of NASA activities and lessons to earn stamps

Pilots earn endorsements and add those to their flight logs for additional training they participate in. You can earn endorsement stamps that can be added to your flight log by completing a variety of activities. Explore core aeronautics principles such as lift, drag, thrust, stability, and aircraft control. Join us for virtual or in-person events. Each activity helps you build realworld understanding of how airplanes fly while building your own expertise.  

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A young boy with a controller in his hands looks intently at a television screen in front of him. A woman bends down next to him pointing at the screen, guiding him through the VR experience.
GVIS Intern (Leah Kim) demonstrates the X-59 flyover experience to a participant at the Cleveland Cavaliers event, “Score with STEM”.
NASA/Jef Janis

Learn More About Past Flights

Have you already flown with us? Do you need a replacement boarding pass? Select any of our past flights below, download the boarding pass and add your name. Save it, print it, share it, it is up to you!

X-59 First Flight Series

ACERO Flight Test / Field Eval

NASA's Super Guppie aircraft on the tarmac

Super Guppy AirVenture

EcoD aircraft in flight.

EcoDemonstrator Flight

Gulfstream III Aerodynamics Research Test Bed in flight.

NASA Gulfstream G-III

An aircraft taxis through a water salute streaming from water hoses from two firetrucks positioned on either side of the aircraft. The converging water streams create a rainbow above the aircraft as it passes under the arc of spraying water.

DC-8 Final Flight

DC-8 in flight.

DC-8 High Water Research Flight

Learn More

Dive into a curated collection of websites that will help you discover more about NASA Aeronautics. Learn about our groundbreaking Quesst Mission, explore the biographies of real NASA pilots, and discover how we’re shaping the future of flight. Start your journey of discovery now!

Two maintainers in white protective suits, air tanks, masks, rubber gloves, and boots check NASA’s X-59 hydrazine system during a hydrazine safety check at U.S. Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, California. The sky is slightly overcast, with some sunlight rays beginning to peek out from behind the clouds. The aircraft has a panel open, a ladder positioned on the right side of its fuselage, and air ducts extending from the aircraft into a service cart.

Aeronautics Topics Page

NASA's X-59 airplane is seen parked with the open desert behind it and a row of city lights on part of the horizon.

Aeronautics Research

NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft is seen on the ramp at sunrise with its canopy open. Orange and gold light filters through the clouds behind the aircraft, highlighting the aircraft’s shape. Several ground crew members are visible around the aircraft, along with support carts. A vertical light pole with a coiled cable can be seen in the foreground.

Aeronautics Image Gallery

A SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft with its nosecone open and carrying over 5,000 pounds of science, supplies, and hardware for NASA's SpaceX CRS-33 mission approaches the International Space Station for an automated docking to the Harmony module's forward port. Both spacecraft were flying 262 miles above the Atlantic Ocean east of the Canadian province of Newfoundland at the time of this photograph.

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Flight Log

About Pilots

Pilots shape aviation history — from fearless pioneers in open-cockpit biplanes to today’s skilled professionals flying advanced aircraft worldwide. 

Aviation pioneers have laid the foundation for today’s remarkable achievements in flight and for tomorrow’s exploration yet to occur. Pilots fly research missions, support emergency response, test new technologies, and help shape the future of aviation. Their skill and dedication keeps pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in the skies. 

Learn more about pilots about About Pilots
Close profile view of a NASA pilot wearing a prototype helmet.
Research pilots from the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, Calif., tested a prototype two-part helmet.
NASA/Tony Landis

Do More STEM

NASA’s Flight Log Experience isn’t just about flying your name — it’s your launchpad into hands-on STEM fun! Explore a world of exciting activities, videos, and challenges that bring the science of flight to life. From building paper airplanes to designing your own X-plane, you can earn digital endorsement stamps as you go. Whether you're a student, educator, or curious explorer, there’s something for everyone to discover.

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Aeronautics @ Home

NASA's Jr. Pilot Program

X-59 Maker Bundle Flyer, showing the different activities available in English and Spanish.

Markers Bundle PDF

The Design Your Own X-Plane cover shows a middle-school male student in front a yellow background, wearing a backpack and holding a tablet. Around him are drawings of arrows and a lightbulb, airplanes.

Design Your Own X-Plane

Aeronautics Leveled Readers graphic showing a water color illustration with a sign with blue wings in the center with the words Leveled Readers in red.

Leveled Readers

A young school student holding a tablet with scribbles and drawings and text (X-Plane, research, innovation) floating around her.

Activities and Endorsement Codes

Illustration of a superhero teacher in flight with books and the X-59 and X-57 aircraft in flight as well.

NASA Aero for Educators

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Aeronautics Coloring Pages

Aeronautics Flight Log Experience

Don't forget to take the first step in building your flight log—sign up to have your name included as a virtual passenger on NASA aeronautics flight.

Building a flight log is a part of the Aeronautics Flight Log Experience. If you want to go back to the page where it all starts, visit our site. 

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